{"id":92,"date":"2007-05-07T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog2\/2007\/05\/07\/letter-from-azim-premji-lesson-5\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T11:04:00","slug":"letter-from-azim-premji-lesson-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/letter-from-azim-premji-lesson-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Azim Premji &#8211; Lesson #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lesson #5: Never lose your zest and curiosity<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All the available  knowledge in the world is  accelerating at a phenomenal rate. The whole world&#8217;s  codified knowledge base (all documented information in library books  and electronic files) doubled every 30 years in the early 20th century. By the  1970s, the world&#8217;s knowledge base doubled every seven years. Information  researchers predict that by the year  2010, the world&#8217;s codified knowledge will  double every 11 hours. Remaining on top of what you need to know will become one  of the greatest challenges for you.<\/p>\n<p>The natural zest and curiosity for  learning is one of the greatest drivers for keeping updated on knowledge.  A child&#8217;s curiosity is insatiable because every new object is a  thing of wonder  and mystery. The same zest is needed to keep learning new things. I personally  spend at least 10 hours every  week on reading. If I do not do that, I will find  myself quickly outdated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson #5: Never lose your zest and curiosity All the available knowledge in the world is accelerating at a phenomenal rate. The whole world&#8217;s codified knowledge base (all documented information in library books and electronic files) doubled every 30 years in the early 20th century. By the 1970s, the world&#8217;s knowledge base doubled every seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}