The Interested Challenge!
In this week, I have taken an online course on “Showing Passion in interview by doing Research’, and during this course I learned a very effective technique on how let the other to be interested in you. It seems that if we want others to be interested in us then it could be possible if we are interesting. But actually, being interested in others is the key to let the others be interested in you in a very short time, as compare to the time we spend letting the others to be interested in us by just being interesting. It is very simple technique and it works everywhere in our professional, social and personal life. Most of us already knew about this technique of being interesting by being interested but it might has never been noticed by many of us in our life.

This same idea of being interested instead of being interesting is shared by the Dale Carnegie in his book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. This is the bestselling self-help book ever published and named at #19 on the “Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential books in 2011. I studied the chapter #1 of Part 2 of this book which gives me a lesson of how effectively this idea worked to solve the problems, and to bring the other people closer and more interesting in someone’s professional and personal life. Although Dale Carnegie shared too many examples from his life and from famous personality’s life where this idea of being interested worked effectively to achieve success in their personal and professional life. These examples include some success stories where the persons’ GOD gifted nature of being interested succeeded them in different phases of life and some success stories where the need of being interested let the person know that it’s more important to be interested than being interesting.
When we show real interest in knowing someone then automatically the other person develops inside interest to know about us too. It’s whether our personal life or our professional life, the art of being interested works effectively to do our work done. Dale Carnegie in his book highlighted how this art of being interested could help us, to solve our problems of daily life, to have more and real friends, and to have good networking in our professional and personal life. Although he shared some stories from every aspect of life, from personal life to professional life; but because on the start of this activity my concern was showing Passion in interview by doing Research, so the main lesson that I got after reading this chapter is the idea of being interested about the company and the professional persons to whom I am giving interview or I am working with them. Being interested about the organization help us to standout from other candidates during interview and being interested about our professional colleagues, Boss and CEO help us to get good growth in our professional career. Being interested about the company is to do research about the company, its product, how it works and gain profit, how our job position contributes to the company’s goal and profit; and being interested about our CEO, Boss and Colleagues is about knowing them, their goals, their experience and their interests. Being interested in someone means that I am developing interest about myself in others.
I know the nature of being interested is beneficial for every aspect of life and if we don’t have this nature then it should be adopted and sometimes we may feel it like a skill that we have developed. I have applied this simple technique of being interested in my daily life for a while. I have applied this technique for knowing about my friends, teachers, siblings and relatives. I asked them about their job, daily routine, future plans, activities, and challenges that they are facing.

When I started becoming interested in them and about their activities then I came to know that everyone has problems and challenges in life and most important is when I knew more about them then they started to show interest in my activities, problems, challenges and tried to give me suggestions. I knew about more opportunities and resources from them and they showed interest to have conversation like this again.
I have a conversation with my teacher and knew about his future plans, current job and challenges that he is facing. At the end, he discussed about my activities and my future plan and also discussed some job opportunities with me that I can avail and could be beneficiary for me. I would say that experience was awesome and I knew many opportunities that I could avail and before this I did not know about them.
After completing this online course, book reading and activity I would say that being interested always give you benefit in every aspect of life, whether it’s our personal life or professional life. Being Interest in company in which we are giving interview could help us to standout from other applicants and let the interviews know about our passion and interest for joining the organization.