Why is it that we always long for something which is opposite to what we have. Why are we not satisfied with what we have. I experience this a lot. When I have a fight with my sister or mom for remote control of TV I wish man…I shud have had a separate TV but now when I have my laptop with access to loads of entertainment, I use it less frequently. When I have got lot of free time I think of getting busy and get exhausted and when im actually busy I feel that now I need a break.
If we plot it on a graph where X is actual state and Y is state that we long for then I find that I am at point (-x, -y) wishing to make transition from -y to y. And as soon as I do that transition, the whole graph gets inverted and I again find myself in the same quadrant with same point (-x, -y). Thus i never find myself with a positive X value. The trick is to be in the first quadrant at some point (x,y) where both X and Yare positive.
Mabbe this illustrates relativity. We always long for something we don’t have presently and as soon as we get it, we might long for something else which we might or might not have had it in past.
However, I noticed that when I make a transition from actual state to state which I want to be in ie. from -Y to +Y I kind of like it in the beginning. Everything is new, fresh experiences are easy to come across. It is only once it starts getting monotonous that I start disliking it. Newer experiences are difficult to find. Naturally,, first part of a task is basic and therefore contains lot of easy concepts. But as we go ahead amount to be learnt gets lesser rather difficult to encounter at the first place and once you encounter it its difficult to analyze.
I would like to narrate a recent example. When I was asked to develop a new application. I first started with the basics which often are understood with some effort but as I delved into actually developing it more hitches are encountered. First question is what is to be done and then how it is to be done. This is the most vulnerable phase. When you are not sure what to do you are most susceptible to boredom. I might just try variations of same thing and it starts getting monotonous.
But how do we avoid this monotonicity. Mabbe by doing something new and reaching checkpoints of the new task as quickly as possible instead of dragging it for a while.
So the key is to get a head on start on any new thing and then maintain the momentum of that start by trying to get to checkpoints as fast as we can. Head start will encourage to go in deeper enabling to explore different angles.
However it might not always be possible to get a head start and get over with things quickly. In that case we might just have to hold our nerves and have the determination to do the job at hand. This is the difficult part though. As impatient as I am, this is really the difficult part. But practice makes man perfect. So only thing we can do is try and practice.
If we plot it on a graph where X is actual state and Y is state that we long for then I find that I am at point (-x, -y) wishing to make transition from -y to y. And as soon as I do that transition, the whole graph gets inverted and I again find myself in the same quadrant with same point (-x, -y). Thus i never find myself with a positive X value. The trick is to be in the first quadrant at some point (x,y) where both X and Yare positive.
Mabbe this illustrates relativity. We always long for something we don’t have presently and as soon as we get it, we might long for something else which we might or might not have had it in past.
However, I noticed that when I make a transition from actual state to state which I want to be in ie. from -Y to +Y I kind of like it in the beginning. Everything is new, fresh experiences are easy to come across. It is only once it starts getting monotonous that I start disliking it. Newer experiences are difficult to find. Naturally,, first part of a task is basic and therefore contains lot of easy concepts. But as we go ahead amount to be learnt gets lesser rather difficult to encounter at the first place and once you encounter it its difficult to analyze.
I would like to narrate a recent example. When I was asked to develop a new application. I first started with the basics which often are understood with some effort but as I delved into actually developing it more hitches are encountered. First question is what is to be done and then how it is to be done. This is the most vulnerable phase. When you are not sure what to do you are most susceptible to boredom. I might just try variations of same thing and it starts getting monotonous.
But how do we avoid this monotonicity. Mabbe by doing something new and reaching checkpoints of the new task as quickly as possible instead of dragging it for a while.
So the key is to get a head on start on any new thing and then maintain the momentum of that start by trying to get to checkpoints as fast as we can. Head start will encourage to go in deeper enabling to explore different angles.
However it might not always be possible to get a head start and get over with things quickly. In that case we might just have to hold our nerves and have the determination to do the job at hand. This is the difficult part though. As impatient as I am, this is really the difficult part. But practice makes man perfect. So only thing we can do is try and practice.
waow...gr8 thought boss!!!
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hey dude, really nice.....This actually what everyone goes through - but no one gives a though as to why it is so....good one !!
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