Don't sprint the marathon is not the 'run-of-the-mill' self-help book targeted for all and sundry, but is aimed at overzealous and ambitious parents who relentlessly push their children towards 'success'. The author, V Raghunathan, painstakingly explains that, for most part, all the small things in life do not matter in the long run and it is the attitude and the innate passion that made people like N.R. Narayanamurthy and GM Rao stand out from the rest.
As the blurb on the back cover says, the title of the book does sound very obvious and intuitive, but then as one of my colleagues, Patrick Marion, mentioned to me once - Knowing does not mean doing. To that end, I do believe that this book is worth a read for all parents of school doing children.
While I did enjoy the small anecdotes and examples of the numerous 'achievers', I do have my complaints. It clearly appears to me that a lot of the messages intended for the audience get repeated over and over again in the book. The real-life stories apart, this book could have been condensed to less than 50 pages instead of the 170 odd pages as it stands now.
My take on this book - Pick this up from a library and read it; clearly not required for one's personal collection.
As the blurb on the back cover says, the title of the book does sound very obvious and intuitive, but then as one of my colleagues, Patrick Marion, mentioned to me once - Knowing does not mean doing. To that end, I do believe that this book is worth a read for all parents of school doing children.
While I did enjoy the small anecdotes and examples of the numerous 'achievers', I do have my complaints. It clearly appears to me that a lot of the messages intended for the audience get repeated over and over again in the book. The real-life stories apart, this book could have been condensed to less than 50 pages instead of the 170 odd pages as it stands now.
My take on this book - Pick this up from a library and read it; clearly not required for one's personal collection.
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