Enforcing Education as a social baseline – big blunder

Education sucks

Education is a serious benchmark for everybody’s survival, status, success in this materialistic world. For the last 50+ years in India or all over the world post British Colonial era – education has attained a prominent state in the society.

Without education or literacy, it is very hard to survive and lead a economically decent life in this society. Till fifty years back, people without education managed to live, earn, got married, brought up children and lived their life to the fullest. There were lot of scope for uneducated man to live on olden days. Nowadays, it is not possible to live without education.

We are living in a worst social period which is conditioned by education, and everybody is forced to educate themself.

There were times, when hunters were recognized, later farmers were recognized, later soldiers were recognized, later poets, painters, sculptures were recognized. Before independence freedom fighters were recognized, nowadays there is no scope for freedom fighters.

Everything is a niche skillset, man have it either by birth and trained it. Not everybody was a good hunter, or farmer or soldier, or poets. Each is a special skill – either trained or having by birth. Not everybody can succeed in all fields or professions.

Like that, education is a special skill set, it requires reading, comprehend, and retell/vomit what was memorized. Not all the people on the earth are good at reading, memorizing, and vomiting/retelling. Everybody can speak, but not all can be an orator. Speaking and giving a speech are different skill sets. It need to train your brain or have such brain by birth.

British, spread their western education in India to train, recruit employees for their administrative tasks. An educational system grooming students for administrative or clerical task is still practiced in post independence era. An administrative education is the benchmark or baseline for everything in India. In this context, think about the state of people who do not have skill sets to thrive in education or who can not train themselves to read, memorize, and vomit.

Today, society is enforcing everybody to read, memorize, and vomit though not everybody is good at studying. Many people may not have the brain skill sets for studying. They may have natural skill set in some other domain or fields. Society is not ready to experiment or identify the skill set of every individuals. Its only path is read, memorize, vomit. That’s it.

Assume that if everybody to is asked to run fast, Running fast is the social baseline for everything. Those who run fast will get jobs, status, recognition, etc. So every children will be given training to run fast from childhood. Those who do not or can not run fast will be dumped down. Running is a special niche or skill set, one has to train themselves or have that skill by birth. Others struggle.

In the similar way, we are – the society – the world is enforcing a specialized skill set(reading, memorizing, vomiting) on everybody globally. Those who do not have the skill set, are struggling. What a stupidity. Those who do not have the skill set to study are in pathetic situation in current era.

Life of Delusions

Life is full of delusions. In due course of life, delusion changes periodically. There is no fixed delusion throughout the life.

We are without any delusion when we born. As the mind grows/matures, it builds up delusion strongly.

Our mother, father, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, grandparents, spouse, children, friends, neighbours, job, business, education, degree, money, rich, poor, healthy, sickness and etc., all contribute to develop a delusion about ourselves.

Whatever goes into our mind, will be used to create a delusion. Addition to or deletion from our my mind alters the delusion we have.

Delusions are genetically influenced too.  Like our body, mind are genetically influenced, the delusion our mind holds is derived genetically.

All religions, philosophies are trying to get rid of the worldly delusion from mind – a mind free from wordly delusions. They want to fill the mind with Divine delusion. But man is always attracted by worldly delusions.

How it would be life without any delusion? Nobody knows, those who know, they don’t tell.

But, every night while sleeping, we are detached from our delusions. Deep sleep without dreams is without any delusion both worldly and divinely. Deep Sleep is a bliss.

Action Vs Thoughts

Is our thoughts deciding our life?  Is our life goes as per our thinking?  What is the impact of thoughts in life?

Thoughts are nothing to do anything with our life.  It is our actions deciding our life.  Life goes as per our actions.

Then, why so much important to thoughts?  Thoughts stimulates actions, our action impacts our life.  Our actions are influenced by our thoughts.

So thoughts are important, because it controls our action and in turn our action controls our life.

Can we detach actions and thoughts? Can we remove the influence of thoughts over action?  Yes, we can.   We can act by our intellect or logical mind instead of emotional thoughts.

Let our thoughts be anything.  Let it be positive, negative, happy, sad or anything.  But if we are alert while doing action or speaking, then we can execute our actions without the influence of thought.

You may think negatively, but do not let your negative thoughts influence your actions.  Always act positively and speak positively irrespective of your thoughts.

Be alert to not to let your thoughts influence your actions.

Don’t control your thoughts, let it flow.  But, control your actions, control your speech and be alert while acting or speaking.

Youtube and Internet are increasing Sales

Youtube and internet are increasing sales like anything.  Sell anything, promote anything, market everything.  Ultimately sales get increased both online and offline.

Before youtube, we go to shop see, touch, and feel the product we want to buy.  We do not take decision then and there.  We return home, think, discuss with family, friends whether to buy or not.   After returning from the shop, we are not obsessed by the product we like to buy.

But, now, in youtube days, we see the reviews of the product repeatedly.  Mostly reviews will be positive about the product.  Smart phone in hand will obsess about the product.

We are in a sort of self-compulsion to buy the product after watching youtube reviews and reading reviews from product reviewing websites.  If we have money, nothing can stop us from buying.  Scarcity of money is the only procrastination to buy.  Otherwise, obsession created by youtube, internet, social media are beyond tolerance.

If you stop connecting to internet for a while, your purchases will be reduced.  Tendency to spend will be less.

Stop connecting to internet, you will see the change in you.  Internet is full of marketing, promotions – surfing internet will drain your bank account like anything. Internet is also a selling platform.  It triggers both online and offline sales.  It is a sales trap.  Do not be victim of it.

Youtube Addiction

Like alchoholic addiction, I am addicted to watching youtube videos.  Everyday 2 to 3 hours before sleep, I watch youtube – 10 PM to 1 AM – three hours I watch youtube.

I would not get sleep, If I do not watch  youtube. It has become an habit before sleep.

I take Outh as not to watch youtube.  I consciously do not watch youtube for a week.  Then I break my outh and watch youtube videos as usual.

Because of youtube watching my sleeping duration has reduced.  It is hard to resist youtube, it continuesly shows likelyhood videos automatically as per our interest.

I am trying to stop watching youtube, but failed in my determination many times.

Late night youtube watching has reduced sleeping duration, diluted sleeping quality. No time and energy for other activities.   No talking with family members.  Every bit of freetime, will be used for watching youtube.

I realised that I am addicted to youtube now.  I do not know how to get rid of this addiction.  I am not getting sleep even I goto bed by 10 PM.

As usual, I have token Outh yesterday as not to watch youtube.  I did not watch youtube yesterday.  But today I am sleepless.  Post midnight, I will start sleeping as usual.

Hope, this time, I will succeed in my Outh.

Self Pressure – Self Image

We have self image about ourself.  We expect what is happening to us should be within acceptable range of our self image.  We can not accept if something happening breaching our self image.

A person studying good at school and college, started to believe about  himeself as a good performing guy.  He can not accept, if he is given low rating in his job.  Poor feedback in job is breaching his self image as good performing guy.

We develop a belief system about ourself by seeing our face.  If anything  happening to me beyond my belief system, I can not tolerate.

I have a belief or opinion that I am a good programmer.  I understand business models and implement them as softwares. Sometimes if I can not understand a business model and not able to implement as softwares, I can not tolerate, I will start to doubt my skills.  My confidence dilutes.

The fact is nobody knows everything.  There are things which we can not do.  Not everything we can accompolish.  When the task is within our command, we get it done, and develop confidence.  When the task is beyond our comand, we are not able to do it, and loose confidence.  We afraid what will happen bad because of the failure.

Failures, not able to uderstand, not able to complete a task all are part of life.  If our self-image allows failures too, then we will be comfortable in embarassing moments too.  We are not special, not to be scolded, criticized, embarassed.  As long as our self image is flexible, we will be in a bliss.

Decision Paralysis

When you want to take corrrect decision, but do not know what is correct, then you can not take decision.  You keep postponding making decision.  Ths is Decision Paralysis.

Decision paralysis will not solve any problem.  It extends the current situation.  Until you take decision, your problem will not solve. Decision Paralysis continue your sufferings.

Decision Paralysis will not allow you to take a decision, because you afraid that your decision may go wrong.

How do overcome decision paralysis? When you do not have experience and information to take correct decision, take decision at your will.  Move on.  Dont get stagnated without taking a decision.  Either correct or wrong decision, both will bring change.  A change from your current state.

Take decision to know what is right and wrong.  Once you know what is right and wrong, you will be able to take right decision.  You will have a flow, where you do not need to take decision.  You will follow the flow.

When you are in decision paralysis, don’t know what is correct decision then don’t prolongate the situation.  Take a decision as per your liking or follow your fear.

Decision always brings change – good or bad – there will be a change.  Hesitation prevents change happening.

It is best to follow the flow, where you don’t need to take decision.  Use your experience and information when you have to take decision.  If you don’t have experenece and information, then follow your will or fear.  Will is best.

Take decision to take better decision in the future.

Indulge in experience to take decision

Experience will help you to take decision, at least prevent taking wrong decision.

Take decision, execute it, have experience, will help you to take better decision in the future.  If you hesitate to take decision,  hesitate to fail, hesitate to have experience, then you will not learn anything.

Take upfront decision, fail, learn to take better decision.  You will learn from your decision.

When I had to buy a bicycle, I was confused whether to buy Geared or noGear bicycle.  I rode only NoGear cycles.  I do not know how it would be riding a Geared cycle. I was postponding to take decision as geared or non gear cycles.  Read many blogs in internet, but nothing helps me to decide with the pros and cons. They confused me.

I want to experiment with geared cycle. While purchaing a cycle for my daughter, I purchased BSA Mach woman 7 speed cycle.  It has seven gears with quick release seat post, I adjusted the seat to any height before I ride it.

By riding in different gears, I expeienced the advantages of Gears. At lower gear with high cadence, we could ride without much strain to knee and thigh.  We could ride long distance without breaking a sweat.  In hight gears with low cadence, we could achieve high speed with load to knee and thigh, resulting tiredness.

In geared cycles, we could choose the way we want. Less strain cum low speed. High speed cum high strain.  We could decide.  This is not possible in non-geared bicycles.  Geared bycles are for better than Non-Gear cycles.

After spending 8000 rupees for an upfront experience, I could take a better decision now. With a higher budget, I will buy a Geared cycle for me.  There is no Decision Paralysis now.  Now, I know greared cycle is good and suits me.

If I did not took a decision to buy a greared cycle for my daughter, I would never under go the experience of riding Geared cycle.  Still, I would be in decision paralysis as whether to buy geared cycle or not.

Expeience and information helps you to make right decision.  If you do not have experience and information then take decsion at your will.  At least, you will learn if your decision fails, your learning will help you to take correct decision in the future.

Without expeirence and information, take upfront decision, atleast your loss will be less.  You will have a learning with less expense.  Expense could be time, money, energy, and resource.

Never hesitate to take decision. At least you will have experience to take better decision in the future.

Upfront Decision

When we take decision and we do not know our decision is right or wrong, then how do we move forward?

Unless we walk in the path, we do not know about the path.

The best way to rely on taking a decision is depend on our experience.  Experience matters when taking decision.  Experience will help us to make decisions correctly.

If we do not have sufficient experience then, only way to know the result is execute the decision – walk in the path.  In such NO EXPERIENCE scenario, we can take UPRONT DECISION

Upfront Decision is, take a decision, execute it, and try your best.  If it works out, then continue else revert from your decision.  When you are starting a business, spend less money, time, energy initially – If the business takes off, then involve more, else ramp off.  Upfront decision is try out your plan for a while with less expenditure and without expectation.  If your plan fails, then nothing to loose big.

When we do not know, what will click, then we could try many Upfront Business Models.

We should not take upfront decision in marriage or life partner,  We cannot take upfront decision in buying a home.  We can try upfront decisions in renting homes. I wanted to buy a MTB cycle.  But, I am hesitating whether MTB will suit me.  If it does not suit me, then it becomes useless, money spent to buy the cycle will be waste.  If I manage to rent the MTD cycle for a day or week and ride it, will help me to know whether the cycle will suits me or not.  If it suits me, I will buy it, otherwise I will drop.  Renting before buying is upfront decision.

The Blunder called Belief

Belief is a cognitive blunder in the evolution of mind.

When we believe something, which means it does not exist in reality.  We expect it to be. We do not need to believe a fact.  We believe in God, we believe in religion, we believe in this that.

When we are not certain about something, we develop a belief about the uncertainty to make it certain as per our convenience or as per our like.

Somebody believe in God, somebody do not believe in God.  Both are believes.  Both parties believe something.  In reality, we do not know whether God exists or not.

In day today life, we have various believes about relationships, events, products we use.  We believe soap could kill germs.  We believe education will secure source of income.  We believe good things will happen to good people, bad things will happen to bad people.  We believe struggling for money, being middle class is a symptom of good nature.

We believe in savings is good.  We believe spending is bad.  We have a belief about money, we believe somebody is good and somebody is bad.

Without logic and without facts, we have many believes in life.  We have to question our belief.  Assume something and believe the assumption, this is the way our belief system develops.

Depend on logic and facts.  When facts are not available, then have a belief as per your like but understand that it just a hypothesis.  Be ready to remove your belief when facts available against your belief.  Do not be adamant with your belief when facts are against it.