Namaskara Baddam sir,
Bagunraa,
Well that a very interesting story indeed. There are several aspects of it to me:
- Developed and Developing
Most of the confusion and change in decision making happens in developing countries, developing thoughts, developing tools, developing life, developing situations. But if you see developed countries, developed thoughts, developed tools, and developed life the chance of mistakes keeps on reducing and reducing. Decisions are fixed. Very few things change. In this story several people would make several different decisions if they are still developing learning it. And they would make very few and good decisions when they have given some thought about it and they have developed through it.
- Learning
This brings me to a very interesting topic. What make a something rise from developing to developed. That is working out again and again on the topic and learn from it and not to commit same mistake again. Very few people would take a right decision first time. So it has to be the slow process of learning from different situations.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it - by William Styra
- More people, more chaos (should not be true!)
If there are more people learning the same thing it is quite impossible to get the perfect decisions quickly as no one would like to listen and everyone would like to come up with perfect or imperfect solutions. The reasons behind this would be social mirrors which brings fear to our mind that you need to come up with the right solution every time or you are unable to prove yourself. This fear and hurry would right away stop the creativity and also the patience to listen to others. This is what is also could be a hasty decision as mentioned in the story. This also happens when different people are looking from different place in the situation. It would always be wise to give time to bring everyone at same level before hurry for a decision.
Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare -Unknown Japanese proverb
- Much complex life
When given the title of developing, this brings along with it lots of uncertainties, which brings fear of getting caught doing things wrong unlike first time right as being developed, which makes simple things complex in decision making and is the cause of most of stupid errors. This activates a chain reaction which would disturb the harmony in life, its simplicity.
Of all the creatures on earth, only human beings change their pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny. The greatest revolution in our generation is that human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their mind, can change the outer aspects of their lives -by William James, 1902
- Sharpen the saw: Balancing developing and developed
As mentioned earlier knowledge is the key. Key to go over things when they don't even exists. Key to get rid of fear by knowing them earlier. Key to get to the creative part of it when it is not even their. Often surprises produces chaos. Developed things misses the elements of surprise, element of chaos. Its the choice to make a chaotic situation more chaotic by forcing imperfect decisions, by forcing the speed-up of the recovery.
Technical skill is the mastery of complexity, while creativity is the mastery of simplicity -by Christopher Zeeman
PS: I sincerely request you to consider this a simple prose from me to improve my comprehension techniques and not to give someone a lesson.
Thanks n Regards,
-- Bharat
Good one….do read this
A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track.
The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?
Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make................
scroll down
scroll down further
...
Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess. Exactly, I thought the same way initially because to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally. But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place?
Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was. This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.
The great critic Leo Velski Julian who told the story said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train's sirens. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track! Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe. If the train was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake! And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.
While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one.
"Remember that what's right isn't always popular... and what's popular isn't always right."
Everybody makes mistakes; that's why they put erasers on pencils.
