If somebody points a gun at you, run towards it

Imagine this: You're an American agent in a German standoff in a shady back alley of Darmstadt. A German soldier is pointing a gun at you and your frozen still looking at him. Your gun is on the floor. What can you do? You can run away, but that will have the obvious result in him pulling the trigger. You can also surrender but it would lead only to the electric chair. It seems that you're in a fix. There has to be a third option but everything seems to lead to death. Without thinking you run towards the soldier.
One of three things can happen- He shoots you in the shoulder, he misses his shot or he just does not shoot. You have opened two more options for yourself.
But why should you care about this? You are probably reading this on your mobile at home, lazing on a sofa.
The importance of this anecdote is how it can apply to our lives. Often we find ourselves in situations where we are helpless and are at our wit's end. We consider our two options of doing something and choose the one which an have the least consequences. However, there is always a third option. It is never thought of and often very very risky, but fruit it bears is very worth taking it.

Why can't we see the third option?
The biggest emotion barring our finding the third option is fear. We are afraid of consequences and often tend to avoid to squelch the idea of succumbing to our fear. Often, we are put in situations which are very time bound and the risk of going wrong is very high and the consequence is severe. Our fear, in these situations, increases exponentially and we panic.
The best way to deal with this is to take a break for a minute and take a breather. Take a washroom break and wash your face. It will clear your mind.
If the teacher is coming around to check your homework, and you have done only half of it, you are stuck with either showing it or not showing it. In this case, your mind goes into hyper speed and you try thinking of solutions. But it doesn't work like that. our mind is not a warp tunnel and it cannot function super fast very efficiently.
A friend of mine was stuck in this situation and he considered his options- Owe up and take the incomplete sign or complain that he didn't know how to do a sum. Instead, he sae a third option and swiftly turned his pages to a few uncorrected practice sums. The type of sums were the same as those of the homework. The teacher came, saw it and went. I got an incomplete for not completing a graph but he walked away scot free.

Another excellent way of finding a third option is to eliminate your other two options. Burning your bridges is very helpful, but again very dangerous.
General Xiang Yu sent his army across the Yangtze River to take on the Qin dynasty, in the third century B.C. However, his troops were not very confident and he had two options- Inevitably lose because of a army with a weak morale or call off the invasion. Instead, he decided something unexpected. While his troops slept, he ordered some to set all the ships on fire. The next day he told them that they had two options- win or die trying. By removing his first two options and forcing himself to think, he came to this conclusion. He won the battle.

In conclusion, a third option is a godsend but only believers can see it. You have to want to find a third option to actually see it. If you stay in the lane and go with the usual two options, you won't get anywhere. So go ahead and try your hand at the third option. So what if you get shot? It's better dying a hero than at the laughter of a bunch of Germans.

Can Aanjaneya be a black Japanese boy?

An adventurist father named his two twin sons Winner and Loser Lane. They both were raised together, went to the same school, took the same subjects, attended the same tuition and did more or less everything similar.

Loser Lane succeeded in life. He went to Lafayette college in Pennsylvania and joined the police department. He never hid his name but it was often very uncomfortable for others to call him "Loser". They used nicknames like "Lou" or "Losier" or sometimes just gave him a different name. 

As for his brother Winner, became a criminal with a very long record: nearly three dozen arrests for burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest and arson.

This example shows that naming your child does not matter on what he or she ends up becoming. We make our own destinies and superstitious names like "Kulakesara" will not make your son famous, or even a famed pundit. 

We often associate a lot of personalities with names. fFor example, we often associate Arjun to be an idiot's name or a common person who has nothing special. We associate Paris to be a name of a party animal. we address Charity as a stripper's name. in general, we associate names with personalities and jobs.

Worse than this, we often associate names with castes or how rich a person is.

You would normally associate a Chotu or Mukesh to a servant or a lower person, while you would address a name like Richmond or "warren" to a rich man or a top class person.

The truth is that this is just a continuous bias towards these names. just because all the Mukeshs you hear about are servants, doesn't mean that its a lowly name, as there is a billionaire after that name. 

When it comes to names, we jump to conclusions very fast. We take names to be the end all of a person's religion or race. We always assume a Ram is a Hindu or an Ali is a Muslim or John is a Christian. The truth is that a name does not define you. Ram could be a muslim if he wants and Ali could be a Buddhist, John could be a Jew and Sohinki could be a Taoist. 

A very common herd mentality is to name children after typical names. For example black people name boys DeShawn or DeBravo and girls Aliyah or Kiara.

white people name boys Cody or Anthony and girls Ashley or Jessica.

Asians name boys Yamamoto or nobita and girls Shizuka or Midori 

Spanish people name boys Juan or Javier and girls Juanita or Camilla 

These are the most common racial names and are also the lowest performing or the least successful people with these name. 

But what if these people want to change their names? what if Anthony wants to change his name to Benjamin (the most high end white boy name), or, more importantly, what if DeShawn wants to change his name to Connor (the second most popular white boy name)? 

Will this change affect who they are? now that they have new and successful names, will the thread of destiny change for them? 

The answer: NO

Anybody who bothers to change their name in the name of economic success is at least highly motivated, and motivation is probably a stronger indicator of success than, well, a name. - Steven Levitt 

At one point in the 1990s, the most famous girl's name was Nevaeh. The reason behind this girl's name was that if you were to spell it backwards, it would spell to heaven. Some superstitious parent mustve thought that if he or she would have named their child that, it would signify prosperity.

In india, their a common mentality to name your cild after gods or children of gods. That is why there are so many Ganeshs, Rams, Radhas, and Mohammeds roaming around. the truth is that several of these people commit crimes and "taint their God's name". All of this is baloney and a pretence to blame people for something that does not affect them.
It doesn't matter what your name is, you can be a Mohandas and commit crimes and be a Dawood and be a philanthropist