This realization rather changed the way I looked at life as a whole. I realized that I will run out of fundas only when i stop searching for them. The world has simply unlimited reservoir of fundas ( at various levels ie. simple , arbit , random etc :D ) but I simply dont see those around me. I could not help but drawing parallels to music. Carnatic Music has just 7 swaras (or basic sounds) has managed to generate infinite number of ragas. The ability to manipulate such a scarce resource to a mind boggling number of combinations shows human brilliance.
I started using this philosophy for other avenues of my life too. When I first joined Caterpillar I wondered the long term sustainability of such companies. I felt that were would be a day when there will be a day when all the mud and earth would be displaced and the resources underneath would be plundered and looted. I wondered whom will earth moving machinery companies like Caterpillar serve on that day. It was then that I realized that the company will start making products to put all the mud back in its original place or they might start digging in the moon. Ultimately I understood that the opportunities that are created (or discovered) are a function of human brilliance and ability to accept new ideas alone they are totally independent of the fact that we are endowed with a finite volume of resources (large though they might be). Ultimately what decides the future of human beings ( and ours as individuals) is our ability to make best use of the available finite resources to see the world of opportunities that awaits us.
