Three super successful men and learnings

Sachin Tendulkar, Amir Khan and A. R. Rahman - Every time I watch these there super successful legends, I notice three common traits:

Child like enthusiasm,
Profound love for work
Innocence and simplicity even in chaos

These must be important keys for success.

What is amazing is how these men have managed to maintain these traits over so many years of professional life, and every time can exhibit it, use it to their advantage. These are good lessons for me.

Let us say I am a software engineer, my day to day job is to find issues in code and fix them for a better experience of the customer. Or may be to come up with innovative solutions that a customer will find useful and save resources in the world of automation. How do I maintain same level of enthusiasm of finding or fixing a bug after so many years of programming? How do I go about thinking of a solution as if I am the only one who can solve the customer's problem best possible way - year after year, days after days of doing the same job ?

I have to be in love with every aspect of software engineering. I see that is the only way. That is my lesson - that is probably the easiest way to remain successful.

On the contrary, the lessons I learn from somebody like Himesh Reshammiya is - don't ever overestimate yourself. Never be proud that you are beyond your profession. One is limited by own powers, and at some point or other you are bound to run out of steam. The key to keep going is to find that self motivation to fall back in love with your work, once again - and to submit to that love instead of trying to conquer it.

What a simple way to live in harmony !

Thanks for those lessons Mr Tendulkar, Mr Khan and Mr Rahman - keep inspiring us...