Thanks to Manish's counterview to my last post, here are some more thoughts.
The point I am trying to make is not just for planning as a function or advertising as a profession. What I am trying to drive home can be summarized as taking the elevator test with our Mother.
If we can simplify/summarize our daily work or an idea or achievement in our chosen sphere of activity (be it NASA or IAS) into a few simple to understand, jargon-free sentences in the language of our choice, we can actually get a very candid account of our progress at work.
There is another way to look at it. Remember our innocent account of a day’s activities at school that we used to share with our Mother when we used to come back from school. It’s something like that..
As we grow up we stop doing it. How many of us share accounts of our workday with our parents?
Sometimes we don’t do it because we think that we’ve grown up and feel that all this is kid business; sometimes we think out parents wouldn’t understand; but what should never be a reason to not share is not having anything to share..
If not parents, we can share it with people from very different streams that ours. Believe me it can work wonders to the way we approach work..
There is one more dimension to this thought – everything that everyone is doing anywhere in this world at any point in time is a part of humanity in action. And if our actions or their implications (from NASA discoveries to Nano Technology) cannot be summarized into simple yet interesting nuggets, we need to seriously rethink about our actions or our ability to express.
If we can simplify/summarize our daily work or an idea or achievement in our chosen sphere of activity (be it NASA or IAS) into a few simple to understand, jargon-free sentences in the language of our choice, we can actually get a very candid account of our progress at work.
There is another way to look at it. Remember our innocent account of a day’s activities at school that we used to share with our Mother when we used to come back from school. It’s something like that..
As we grow up we stop doing it. How many of us share accounts of our workday with our parents?
Sometimes we don’t do it because we think that we’ve grown up and feel that all this is kid business; sometimes we think out parents wouldn’t understand; but what should never be a reason to not share is not having anything to share..
If not parents, we can share it with people from very different streams that ours. Believe me it can work wonders to the way we approach work..
There is one more dimension to this thought – everything that everyone is doing anywhere in this world at any point in time is a part of humanity in action. And if our actions or their implications (from NASA discoveries to Nano Technology) cannot be summarized into simple yet interesting nuggets, we need to seriously rethink about our actions or our ability to express.
1 comment:
some great points Saurabh.
we stop behaving like kids because we are expected to...but what really keeps us happy is good and meaningless conversations about day to day living...something which we stop doing in our busy selfish lives.
love you for both the posts on 'what we do/what anybody does'...highly candid!
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