So yes I am a postgrad student now. “Learnings”,
“appreciate the process/theory/application”, “Optimisation” are a few
terms/jargons/phrases out of an odd fifty that surface in every conversation at
class, mess tables, normal chit chats, presentations, assignment write-ups etc.
(I am sure you got the gist!) more often than not.
But what remains to be asked is, do we really
understand these phrases? Aren’t we using the word “learnings” to cover up for
things we haven’t learnt? Are we really appreciating the process/theory/application
or are we just sitting like zombies in class looking vacantly at the screen and
nodding? Have we “optimised” the resources at our disposal? Let’s see!!
So a few days back a friend said “why are we
always taking examples of all the successful stories? Why aren’t we talking more
of failures ‘cause those are the things we shouldn’t do? This got me thinking,
food for thought: One guy out of a population of 700 (including staff and every
living soul on campus) thought of this. Pretty astonishing! "Are we, even worse - our thoughts, caged by social stigma?
I thought about this at length and finally
after several days of brain picking I stopped at “I”. It’s a single
unsuspecting letter but very potent. With due respect to the ‘You-approach’, I say
this: “Why are we learning the you-approach in the first place when people don’t
even know how to do the I-approach justice?
The I-approach holds the power to bring out
the best in everyone if done correctly (and here I am talking about a balance
not extremities like narcissism and self-obsession). As it is nobody follows
the you-approach nowadays, it’s only a theory, so the curriculum might as well
teach students where to strike a balance with the I-approach.
Although we are taught to quit the I-approach.
It is only I that would understand myself best, love me irrevocably, see my
flaws, pride in my intensities, embrace my drawbacks, adore my goof-ups and
learn from them, revel at my glories, wonder at my growth and worship my
inner-being to the last cell. No one else would selflessly do the same for me
because everything else is temporary! I could be my own source of joy… and it
is very positive. It is only when I know myself best, can I be the best for
others.
So no, we are not optimizing. Why you ask? Simply
because we are not so much as challenging the theories as gulping whatever is
offered. We are not applying reverse psychology to these theories, we are not
asking why!! We are simply covering things we haven’t learnt with unsuspecting
words like “learnings”
LoveJ
Cheers to finding ourselves
ADITI
