In a spot contest checking on how many mobile numbers one remembers, I will get stuck with just one number - that is my own. It is a little embarrassing to figure that I don't even remember near and dear ones telephone numbers nowadays. While on travel, I just can't get myself tomemorize hotel telephone number or my desk number at work. Predominant operating rule is - if you know how to get it, that's enough. Why waste precious (?!) mind space to store such temporary data? Adopt Gajini style.
After years of softening of the grey cells, imagine if one has to go through an examination that has memory recall based evaluation technique. Of course, I did step in to such courage zone activity of going back to school and successfully completed my MS in Management Systems (BITS Pilani + SPIC collaboration) after clocking 8 years ofwork experience. Now sitting on top of 14.5 years of experience, even if its open book style of evaluation, I wouldn't fancy my chances of finishing a paper on time leave alone talking about getting a respectable score / grade!
Though may be a bit extreme, I seriously think growing kids should not be exposed to the new age way of living out of search engines feed. Else it will lead to shallow learning / research. Such "take it easy"approach will not facilitate "connecting the dots" to see a bigger picture / macro form / synthesis.
Whatever be the domain - technical or soft skill or spiritual, I sincerely think the approach to learning is important. Choices are absorb or digest or assimilate; gain chitchat or information or knowledge or wisdom. As kind and varietyof information one receives explodes, everyone needs to evolve a synthesis based content leadership skill if you will. Absorbing everything like a black hole without connecting it to overall life experiences or proven learnings will just result in overflow and waste one's time and energy.
As you would have figured out by now, I do take few things really seriously (for a change!). I am a big fan of structured thinking, systems and frameworks. Humble submission is in order - I am not living it yet; but definitely this occupies a great deal of my mind share.
My dream is to innovate a beauty, timeless classic and create history. Anything short of that, it is not worth indulging in and a waste of time.
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