While young stars are struggling to make an impact, superstar Rajnikanth, a septuagenarian, is not only able to bring crowds but also make them go crazy with his dapper looks and swag on screen. “I do every movie and every scene as if I am performing for the first time in front of the camera,” he said in an interview once. He has done more than 150 movies over four decades, but still when standing in front of the lens, he does not brush it off as another day at office.
Most of us do the same thing again and again for years together. A chef cooks for customers in a certain pattern every day. A maths teacher teaches the same chapters every year. A specialist surgeon performs the same type of surgery every day. A pilot follows the same flight path. Similarly, the computer engineer, lift operator and so on have the same routine. It is natural that boredom easily clings on and a certain level of automation and monotony sets in soon.
We start working at a sub-cortical level with a middling mindset. Like a stray cow that follows its way back home after grazing, many perform jobs in a repetitive and monotonous way. This has several serious repercussions.
