Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways.

       When it comes to achieving success the common formula given by most of the people is to have originality, to do something that no one has ever done. Is it true? That to have originality means to be in north when everybody are at south or is it like to stay in the south and wear a formal suit when everybody in south are wearing a casual? Well as far as I know many success stories have been the case of the latter one.

In the 19th century during the advent of the computer era most of the engineers had an access to the then old modeled computers, but it was only the vision of one Bill Gates that changed the entire scenario. He did not come out with an entirely new scheme out of nowhere. All he did was make a slight change to the way people looked at computers. He changed the notion that computers where for office and business uses to every desk should have a computer. This small change in the attitude made him the richest person of the world. Even now Steve jobs the cofounder of apple made a slight change to the way people interact with their mobile phones by introducing a touch screen and that too became a huge success. Whatever may be the field all it took for the achievers to attain success is to remodel the old ideas.

Cricket has long been described as "A game played by eleven fools and watched by eleven thousand fools". The reason for such criticism was the length of the game, if it was a test match, five days and a whole day if it was an ODI. In 2000 the ICC came up with the idea of a 20/20 version of the game and it was absorbed and made into a popular brand product called the IPL by the BCCI. The cricket from its slowly dying phase got revived into a new form and new success was found. All it took was to remodel the old conventional cricket.

With the above examples one can easily conclude that the winning combination in the poker of life is not to have a pack of new set of cards but to have a full house by playing efficiently with the old cards.