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Learning From Three Worlds
Abhijit Bhaduri
If something bothered you enough to wake you up at 2 am, would you have someone you could talk to, whose counsel you could trust, who would listen to you and keep your secret safe?
How many such friends do you have?
When you make plans to celebrate a major milestone in your life, say your wedding, how many friends do you call for the celebration? If you are on Facebook, how many friends do you have there?
Chances are, you have just described the three categories of friends. I have asked these questions to several groups of friends and colleagues.
The word ‘friend’ has undergone a big shift. Most count the number of close friends in single digits. The number of “friends” on Facebook is the largest. The number we would call for a celebration is somewhere in between.
We all live in three worlds simultaneously. The virtual world of friends we make on the net, the friends we keep in touch with in the physical world and the handful of friends we trust that make up our inner world. If the three definitions coincide, so will the numbers.
I have often asked groups of people how they would draw a picture to represent the word “learn”. Most draw a book or a teacher in a classroom with a blackboard. This drawing represents the inner world’s definition of what makes us learn. The inner world is within our control. The school in the physical world needs access to resources someone else may control.
The course content in most schools and colleges is slow to change. At a gathering of management educators, the dean of a well-known college lamented that it takes them three to four years to design the curriculum of a new subject, design assessments and find professors who can offer it to students.
That often makes the content obsolete even before it has been taught. The basic textbook used in marketing by Philip Kotler has remained unchanged over the past 30 years. That may be testimony to how timeless the book is. Then again it could mean how long it takes the physical world to change. In the virtual world, we can learn from many sources. Anyone with a mobile phone and a net connection can access free content that we can use to learn anything from anyone around the world.
The Massive Open Online Courses make it possible for anyone to take a course offered by some of the best known Ivy League professors in any subject for free.
Twitter is my favourite source of learning. It lets me “follow” the smartest people who are continuously sharing everything from breaking news to ideas, insights and treasure troves of information. The virtual world makes learning “whenever, wherever and whomever”.
We may not always be able to influence the physical world. Your employer may need to nominate you to a class that you have waited for the past two years to join. That involves training and travel budgets.
If we only value learning in our inner world, we will miss out the continuous learning that the connected world offers. We will wait to learn from experts and not value the wisdom of the novice.
In a world that is changing constantly, the inner world is often a comfort zone because it is familiar and remains unchanged. The virtual world and physical world are often what we cannot influence readily.
Though it is easier to influence our inner world, it is often the slowest to change. The virtual world can often provide us resources that we may be denied in the physical world. All we need is to do is to decide to connect our inner world occasionally to the virtual world.
The writer is chief learning officer at Wipro
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A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes
the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect
� I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn�t work that way. So I
stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
� Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level
and beat you with experience.
� I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not
screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
� Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than
standing in a garage makes you a car.
� The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s still on the list.
� Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear
bright until you hear them speak.
� If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
� We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public.
� War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
� Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting
it in a fruit salad.
� The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
� Evening news is where they begin with ‘Good evening,’ and then
proceed to tell you why it isn’t.
� To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many
is research.
� A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a
train stops. My desk is a work station.
� How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it
takes a whole box to start a campfire?
� Some people are like Slinkies … not really good for anything,
but you can’t help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.
� Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they
can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them
fish.
� I thought I wanted a career; turns out I just wanted paychecks.
� A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that
you don’t need it.
� Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says “If an
emergency, notify:” I put “DOCTOR.”
� I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
� I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with “Guess” on it… So I
said “Implants?”
� Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion
stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
� Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the
street with a bald head and a beer gut and still think they are sexy.
� Why do Americans choose from just two people to run for president
and 50 for Miss America ?
� Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a
successful man is usually another woman.
� A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
� You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute
to skydive twice.
� The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
� Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.
� A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a
way that you will look forward to the trip.
� Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even
if you wish they were.
� Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
� I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be
devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my
foot.
� Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
� There’s a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so
they can’t get away.
� I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not sure.
� I always take life with a grain of salt… plus a slice of
lemon… and a shot of tequila.
� When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire
Department usually uses water.
� You’re never too old to learn something stupid.
� To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever
you hit the target.
� Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
� A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it
as when you are in it.
� If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some
people have more than one child?
� Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
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Staying Peaceful
Desires cause peace to disappear. You think that acquiring things will make you feel secure, but the reality is that the more you have the more fear there usually is of losing it, and the further you are from peace. Desires are the cause of all conflicts. When you want something and cannot get it you become frustrated.
Learning to be free from desires is learning how to stay peaceful
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