Opportunities are dawning on the youth of emerging India like never before.....
But the younger generation, who are getting opportunities (jobs) seems to be so content with landing a job in a BPO or a IT "Big 5", who does mass recruitment....the only pride for these people seems to be "pride" in working for these companies. I once asked a group of these bright kids to spell a word that implies "focussed intelligence and great insight"....they spelled "genious". Then I asked how many people disagree with that spelling, only one girl disagreed. I asked her to give the spelling that she thinks is right, she said "Genius". I again asked the group whether they agree with it. No one agreed. I asked all of them to look into dictionary....lot of them looked puzzled....(probably, they haven't heard of terms like "Dictionary", "Encyclopedia" etc.,) They did anyway (because, I forced).
What I realized is the conviction (rote learning) with which we are trained indicates, how "close" minded we would become! One of the life skills that I realized is "continuous learning". If we are not conditioned for this, we would build a weak nation. For example, it is a common experience that with every monsoon, the roads gets eroded and there will be pot holes....., then right after the monsoon, there will apprently be new layer on the roads ( not new roads). Then, there will be be monsoon, potholes, new layers...the cycle continues...endlesslessly. Do we all agree, this is a healthy cycle? Do we think this cycle can be broken? Why we do not do what we know? One reason I think is due to our "conditioning" of lack of "continous learning" and "continous improvement" mindset. I am not pointing to one set of people, it is across all sections of the social groups.
Hmmm...who worries about all this, we will import "Road laying" technology from Germany(if at all a crisis arise), because we are a super power and we have zillion trillionaires in our country!! After all, our core competency is "software support and maintenance" and all our engineers are doing a fabulous job at it.
But the younger generation, who are getting opportunities (jobs) seems to be so content with landing a job in a BPO or a IT "Big 5", who does mass recruitment....the only pride for these people seems to be "pride" in working for these companies. I once asked a group of these bright kids to spell a word that implies "focussed intelligence and great insight"....they spelled "genious". Then I asked how many people disagree with that spelling, only one girl disagreed. I asked her to give the spelling that she thinks is right, she said "Genius". I again asked the group whether they agree with it. No one agreed. I asked all of them to look into dictionary....lot of them looked puzzled....(probably, they haven't heard of terms like "Dictionary", "Encyclopedia" etc.,) They did anyway (because, I forced).
What I realized is the conviction (rote learning) with which we are trained indicates, how "close" minded we would become! One of the life skills that I realized is "continuous learning". If we are not conditioned for this, we would build a weak nation. For example, it is a common experience that with every monsoon, the roads gets eroded and there will be pot holes....., then right after the monsoon, there will apprently be new layer on the roads ( not new roads). Then, there will be be monsoon, potholes, new layers...the cycle continues...endlesslessly. Do we all agree, this is a healthy cycle? Do we think this cycle can be broken? Why we do not do what we know? One reason I think is due to our "conditioning" of lack of "continous learning" and "continous improvement" mindset. I am not pointing to one set of people, it is across all sections of the social groups.
Hmmm...who worries about all this, we will import "Road laying" technology from Germany(if at all a crisis arise), because we are a super power and we have zillion trillionaires in our country!! After all, our core competency is "software support and maintenance" and all our engineers are doing a fabulous job at it.
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