Perhaps its one of the things you pick up at ASB, or maybe its something that any P.G course will teach you (if you care to open your eyes and look, that is!); that there is a lot to be learnt from your ‘not-knowing’. Of course, its first necessary that you care that you ‘don’t know’ and second that you have sufficient guts to look it and say ‘shucks! I don’t know that at all!’.
Its very easy to say ‘I don’t give a fair penny that I don’t know’. Its also called ‘escapism’ I think… :) especially if you want to kick-ass when you get into the Corporate World.
A very simple example to illustrate what I’m talking about is the feeling we have after writing an exam: (read: our Mid-Term exams) the Proff comes to class and goes over the paper (or rather: over your dismal performance in the paper!) and you squirm in your seat. He may make it sound all very simple (‘Read the text and all will be well’). Actually…. Its true…. You realize that after you’ve had the taste of the paper. No, Im not just talking about the phenomena of lack of preparation. If you can realize that perhaps this subject is actually worth knowing/ that it may actually require some more time/ that maybe you should be prioritizing better….. that’s what I’m getting at. Are we going to be smart enough to realize, and do something about, that there’s a whole lot we don’t know and we probably should be?
Let’s face it: when we go out: there’s always going to be this pack of smart-asses (no pun intended!) who will finish our sentences and do the math just a little faster and know the one detail you didn’t, about the subject. (And no: its not just the IIM breed I’m talking about).
So let’s just not sit on it and chew hay! We got a chance to remedy it…. (and by God, we can….!) Let’s take the chance and do what’s possible. Who knows, it may be the thing that creates the difference between the salary we get and the salary we hope to get…..
OK, I hope all the readers of this blog are sufficiently inspired! I think I’ll come back sometime later and try reading it myself! :)
Have a good day, ppl. :)
Its very easy to say ‘I don’t give a fair penny that I don’t know’. Its also called ‘escapism’ I think… :) especially if you want to kick-ass when you get into the Corporate World.
A very simple example to illustrate what I’m talking about is the feeling we have after writing an exam: (read: our Mid-Term exams) the Proff comes to class and goes over the paper (or rather: over your dismal performance in the paper!) and you squirm in your seat. He may make it sound all very simple (‘Read the text and all will be well’). Actually…. Its true…. You realize that after you’ve had the taste of the paper. No, Im not just talking about the phenomena of lack of preparation. If you can realize that perhaps this subject is actually worth knowing/ that it may actually require some more time/ that maybe you should be prioritizing better….. that’s what I’m getting at. Are we going to be smart enough to realize, and do something about, that there’s a whole lot we don’t know and we probably should be?
Let’s face it: when we go out: there’s always going to be this pack of smart-asses (no pun intended!) who will finish our sentences and do the math just a little faster and know the one detail you didn’t, about the subject. (And no: its not just the IIM breed I’m talking about).
So let’s just not sit on it and chew hay! We got a chance to remedy it…. (and by God, we can….!) Let’s take the chance and do what’s possible. Who knows, it may be the thing that creates the difference between the salary we get and the salary we hope to get…..
OK, I hope all the readers of this blog are sufficiently inspired! I think I’ll come back sometime later and try reading it myself! :)
Have a good day, ppl. :)
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