When I was an infant I wasn’t
able to crawl. Nature taught me how to do it. When I got a little bigger, I
stood on my own feet. Later on, as I grew up, I learned how to walk then leap,
and eventually how to run. I was taught how to utter a sound, and then I was
able to speak a proper word before I could frame a sentence. After few years of
practice, I was able to speak fluently.
I was made familiar with 1, 2, 3...When
I got strong grip on it,I was taught addition, subtraction, division and so
on. As my brain developed, I started learning arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.
Many years later, I was taught derivatives, integration, exponential, and
advanced mathematics. What I am trying to point out here is: in any walk of
life, we start from the very basics; from the zero level. Someone who is good
in it approach us, or conversely we approach them, and they teach us.
We start learning something new. As we stick to the same task with the desire
of learning more, along with the time, we are given deeper understanding of the
subject. We fail each time but we retry and we grow up. We gradually become
better and sharpen the skill. But before we reach to that point, we have to
pass through a series of failures, embarrassment, frustration, and disappointment.
Our resilience, persistence, and hard work takes us to the next level.
We overcome all the hurdles, with persistence and patience, and are left behind
with certain skills and achievement.
Way back when I was in the 7th standard, my father bought a bicycle for two of us: me and my brother. It was a blue coloured Atlas bicycle. We both started learning at the same time. When I would practice he would hold from the back. When he would practice I used to control the balance. That’s how we learned cycling simultaneously. I was unable to keep the balance at first; in fact, it took many unsuccessful trials before I could maintain the balance and feel confident. I failed badly and hurt myself few times. Sometime the cycle would go to another direction and hit someone else. We kept on practising and mastered the skill. Down the line, after 6 months or so, cycling became a real fun and we both used to enjoy it.
Similar incident occurred while learning motor-cycle. I couldn’t control the accelerator. I would release the accelerator abruptly. Then the bike would go round and hit something. It took me several attempts to make a smooth and spontaneous gear-clutch-accelerator-break combination. I knew the logic, but wasn’t able to implement it. Eventually everything was learned properly and I was the king of the roads.
I still remember the day when I took my first call in a call centre. Even after completing months of rigorous training and being supplied with sophisticated software, I was shivering, panicking, and sweating when I held the hand set for the first time. The superfluous support was outweighed by the lack of experience which was blowing my head. First day: a terrifying experience. Second day: got slightly better. One week later, I felt a lot more comfortable and after one month of span, I was much confident. I was rocking the floor in six months time.
It gets better with time; it has to. No matter what the task at your hand is. When you keep sticking to it will eventually get better. This is a universal law. It applies to everything. What we think a problem is merely a state of the mind. When the mind is trained with a perfect solution, followed by adequate practice, the problem loses its strength, its intensity and the grip it had on mind.
Not only technical things but non-technical stuffs like maintaining inter-personal relationship, improving personality, and strengthening specific skill sets are all learnable as long as the person is willing to put the effort into it.
Way back when I was in the 7th standard, my father bought a bicycle for two of us: me and my brother. It was a blue coloured Atlas bicycle. We both started learning at the same time. When I would practice he would hold from the back. When he would practice I used to control the balance. That’s how we learned cycling simultaneously. I was unable to keep the balance at first; in fact, it took many unsuccessful trials before I could maintain the balance and feel confident. I failed badly and hurt myself few times. Sometime the cycle would go to another direction and hit someone else. We kept on practising and mastered the skill. Down the line, after 6 months or so, cycling became a real fun and we both used to enjoy it.
Similar incident occurred while learning motor-cycle. I couldn’t control the accelerator. I would release the accelerator abruptly. Then the bike would go round and hit something. It took me several attempts to make a smooth and spontaneous gear-clutch-accelerator-break combination. I knew the logic, but wasn’t able to implement it. Eventually everything was learned properly and I was the king of the roads.
I still remember the day when I took my first call in a call centre. Even after completing months of rigorous training and being supplied with sophisticated software, I was shivering, panicking, and sweating when I held the hand set for the first time. The superfluous support was outweighed by the lack of experience which was blowing my head. First day: a terrifying experience. Second day: got slightly better. One week later, I felt a lot more comfortable and after one month of span, I was much confident. I was rocking the floor in six months time.
It gets better with time; it has to. No matter what the task at your hand is. When you keep sticking to it will eventually get better. This is a universal law. It applies to everything. What we think a problem is merely a state of the mind. When the mind is trained with a perfect solution, followed by adequate practice, the problem loses its strength, its intensity and the grip it had on mind.
Not only technical things but non-technical stuffs like maintaining inter-personal relationship, improving personality, and strengthening specific skill sets are all learnable as long as the person is willing to put the effort into it.
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