'Common sense is quite uncommon' is what I was told whenever I failed to cut my way through the chaos. As much as, I was frustrated with my failure to learn from my failures. I equally wondered if there is a way to master the technique. Today, I wish to share my learnings with my readers.
'Common sense is a combination of experience, training, humility, wit and intelligence'. Wow! now that sounds like a well balanced equation with known variables. Doesn't that excites you to take control of participating variables and work on your weaker areas to improve your gross wisdom quotient! Let's work on that too;
- Experience is nothing but the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities. Simply put, just do it will alone help learn things in small digestible chunks. Fear of failure is the greatest impediment to learning. Make it your friend!! Adapt a fail fast approach. trust me it always helps and at least you end up enriching your experience.
- Training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching. But, where do I start. Look around yourself. Be relevant to your eco-system. Learning something which is immediately useful keeps you motivated and provides avenues to 'Apply Yourself'. Remember no one learns or appreciates swimming by reading the book!!
- Pride eats up your brain, being humble means taking good and bad in your strides and accept them as part of our lives. It always helps to balance your emotions [I know I'm being preachy, I need a lot ground work here.. but then whose blog is this ;) ]
- When in trouble use your humor! It sheds the unnecessary weight from your shoulder and helps you relax. It's very important. Enjoy! every moment.
- Intelligence is you ability to comprehend, to profit from your experience which now looks like product of the healthy concoction of the above ingredients.. the 'executable knowledge' !!
There you have it! the prescription to work on your common sense. Happy learning. You may now join you hands for a big round of applause... Have fun!!
