He won't say much, but he observes everything
Being able to live in the moment.
It is very rare for any sportsperson to look so relaxed and at peace with the world and himself at a time when the axe seems so perilously close to his neck.
Many have likened what dhoni has done for his home town to what Sir Don Bradman did for his home town, Bowral.
Ganesh Chandra Ghosh, the chittagong based freedom fighter.
Mahatma Gandhi met the then lieutenant governor of Orissa and Bihar in 1917
City kind of slipped off the national radar in independent India, but Ranchi rise to fame within a few days of Dhoni.
Ranchi Air port is named after Birsa Munda.
City of Waterfalls.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
He doesn't believe in leaving anyone behind. And believes in taking everybody forward.
Always being quiet. He was in his own world mostly, almost too sorted to be a child.
Keen sense of knowing what to do, when to do it, and giving it all his focus and energy.
If he decided that he had to do something. He would definitely do it.
You'll never see Mahi ever being late to any palce.
If you wan't to play, play seriously , otherwise go away => Only moment Dhoni get heated.
Single-mindedness.
Constantly formulating theories and passing judgments on those playing.
Analyse the situation with a calm mind and find a solution instead of being panicked.
kids needed to learn how to fend for themselves. A child walks out of the school and his parents are waiting for him with the car, he won't learn anything. Let the kid walk to the school by himself rather than getting dropped off daily. He should know what punishments awaits him for being late.
He doesn't fear failure. Dhoni embraced the struggle, rather than fighting it or shying away from it. It's something he continues to do. A person learns through struggle. It teaches you to take decisions.
He never stops learning.
Mahi never showed off even then. If it's practice or match.
More tense you are, more nervous you get and performance gets affected.
If you are out, then it's out. So why fret about it before it happens.
Incredible self-confidence seems to have nothing to do with whether things were going his way or not.
Don't worry, sir. I know I'll get one more chance, you just wait and see, and I'll take that chance.
Mahi's nature is that he doesn't do bad things to anybody. Even if someone wrongs him in any way. The worst Mahi will do is stop talking to them.
He stays away from them, but will never say they are wrong.
If he gets angry, nobody can stand in front of him. Those who get angry rarely are scariest when they do.
Insatiable need to observe and lean something new.
I know how to ride a bike. I'll figure out how to ride a scooter too.
Dhoni's quiet yet affable nature also made him really popular in school and in dressing room.
He would respect everyone, so he got respect back. That's the way he plays.
There's a difference in gaining respect through your game, and gaining it by merely being a senior.
Any teacher was ready to help him because he was so polite and humble.
Willingness to go the extra mile to ensure him it did well in every tournament.
He has a voracious appetite.
Your are not hurt, right? The bike can be fixed.
BAS: Beat All Sports.
He reads very quickly and correctly about a person.
Tell, Tell, don't keep it in your heart.
After Sachin got out for 2, Dhoni came to crease and hit Mohammed Sami to 4. His career hasn't looked back since that boundary. 123 ball 148 that set the Dhoni career off with a bang.
Those who dig a hole for others, fall into it themselves.
The Sugar was less, He won't say it at first, but only at the end.
He never forgets those who have helped him.
He knows, how to live in a palace and also in a small room. When he didn't have anything. He was like that. Now when he has a lot, he's still like that.
Such thinking at a juncture of adversity is what a leader should be able to do.
The core of the army is the soldiers, how they live, how they train, and how they fight. He understands it the best.
He was neither the most successful player in the team- at the point when he took over - nor the most distinguished. He didn't hail from one of the major cricket centres of the country either.
Why are you trying to clip the wings of an air-borne bird.
Dhoni doesn't like alcohol and cigarette.
If a person is big enough to reach him, then he certainly must have access to a politician or a high ranking government official to get him tickets.
It's the housekeeping staff or the waiters in the restaurants who end up as the beneficiaries.
Dhoni loves such banter since at some deep level, he likes being treated like a regular guy. It's a break from the hero worship that is doled out everywhere else.
The more and more decisions you take, the more and more times you'll make a correct decision. So the more decisions you take, the number of mistakes will come down.
He remained steadfast in calling a spade a spade or pointing out the white elephant in the room even if there were times in his career when critics said that he could have done more of it.
Always a man of few words, considering the present political climate of the country, where social media has become the platform and the pulpit to emblazon and preach about your patriotism even if it borders on jingoism.
Using the resources available to fix any problem. Nobody will look at the drivers seat.
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
It wasn't the first time that Dhoni was shocking his fried with his complete ignorance about someone the colonel considered a famous personality.
It's just a case of him "not bothering about anything that doesn't affect him"
Mind being an empty attic with no elastic walls. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or best is jumbled up with a lot of other things... for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.
It is better off not bothering with that which doesn't affect them.
He's kind of ensured he's stayed on the perifphery all through his career.
language, caste, etc matters in election. That it's often the surname and not the name that matters in these cases.
Dhoni is known to appreciate people who are upfront and direct.
He is present wherever he is. At that point, nothing else matters to him. In the army, for instance, soldiers realise the implication of staying in the present mainly when they don't know what's coming next. How much ever they are taught about it in training, to follow the diktat of not losing sight of the aim and believing that the casualty will be taken care of - even if one of your comrades has been shot dead right next to you- requires that kind of detachment.
MS Principle.
Controlling the controllable
No man can have everything in life, There's always that one thing you will never be able to have. => So seek out the one thing you never had in life and almost develop the confidence that you can achieve everything else, however unachievable it may seem.
He'll always take deep breaths.
He never believed or thought that one thing will lead to another. He knew there was a path to take, a process to follow. If he was batting in a match, he was only concerned about the ball coming at him. Even if the selectors were there watching, he didn't think about if I score here, I'll catch their attention.
Whenever he comes home for food, he doesn't bring his phone along. He leaves it at the hotel. Two and a half hours he'll sit at my place. Such an important and busy man without his phone. and we'll all be amazed.
Nothing can be so urgent that I need my phone at all times. Everything can wait.
He has never shown his palm to a fortune teller. My luck is good, let it keep going.
Dhoni has a defined role for everyone around him. Like with most of his other attributes, this one too he practices in his daily life with the same earnestness. Sakshi cannot go overboard by saying anything about his parents. The same goes for his parents, i.e, they cannot say anything against sakshi.
The kettle is always hotter than tea.
Touch the feet of any elderly person is Indian culture.
When a bird is alive, it eats ants. When the bird is dead, ant eat the bird. Time and circumstances can change at any time. Don't devalue or hurt anyone in life. You may be powerful today, but remember, time is more powerful than you. One tree makes a million matchsticks but only one match is needed to burn a million trees. So be good and do good.
I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.
Knowing who needs to be given importance and when. He understand what is important in life.
Some of the cricketers he grew up playing cricket with in Ranchi recall him having only one rule about run chases which shockingly was :"Never take it till the last over. Finish it off before that."
India felt robbed in Sydney when a few umpiring decision from Steve Bucknor is particular went against them.
He doesn't believe in overt displays of aggression. He believes that if you want to hurt them, do it in your style, not in their way.
If you are scared of taking a call, you can't be successful. You need guts to gamble.
The best person to go to in a desperate scenario is one who has nothing to lose.
He lets the team know what he thinks when they let him down. He backs them when they are down, but when they win, he's not there.
Ice melts, but not Dhoni - Harbhajan
But like in life and on the cricket field, the principles that form the basis of Dhoni's life.
He's extremely in the moment here too. He might give us only five minutes, but that entire five minutes he's with us. His mind is not anywhere else. He understands what we are trying to do and why we are doing it.
Brand endorsements are all lies.
You can improve every day as a cricketer. But by acting, I can't become Amitabh Bachchan. I need to concentrate on what builds my brand, and that's my cricket.
That's when I realised that there here is a guy who's going to be very adamant with what he wants to do... That's the reason why he would be successful in the years to come... because he had his own mind and he did not let other people mess around with it.
If you force an idea on Dhoni, he would just ignore both you and the idea. But if you as a coach or support staff would leave it open-ended, there was a chance he might at least consider using it. Always as a passing suggestion rather than as a strong idea.
He don't show them that I'm the captain of the team.
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