Sunday, April 25, 2010

This is how we learn.


Back in Patna, missing the royal IIT, Kanpur visitors hostel. Its food, n iit girls.

I met a fella from Denmark there, after a brief talk at the dining table, he invited me to his room. He was doing research with some professor of IITK. He measured my inquisitiveness and started showing his experiments and work. Some real sophisticated experiments. It was my turn to show greatness of India. I asked for his hankie and i had mine. I warped different coins in them and with a pen and thread, i explained him 3 laws of Physic. He was fascinated. He said "I never knew experiments can be done without sophistication." I replied - "we don't have facilities so we invent our own".

We exchanged e-mail ids. N then i had my train so unwillingly i had to leave n say goodbye.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Curing the "Private I" Complex


You see, people aren't really interested in you. Your troubles and problems are yours, my friend, and nobody else really cares. You know why, don't you? Because they all have problems of their own. Certainly theirs are more important to them and yours. And, conversely, nobody's problems are quite so important or imperative to you as your own are.

Curing the "Private I" Complex

This is all leading to a very helpful point. I've told you, and I'm sure you agree, that we are all completely alone. But there is a way, comparatively simple way, of relieving the loneliness just a bit.
And that is to overcome the overpowering dictates of the great "Private I". Most of us are so firmly imprisoned in that seemingly escape-proof cell of ego, that dark, despairing dungeon of self, that we tend to believe that the entire world revolves around "me".This is an all-too-common ailment, this "private I" complex, but it can be, shall we say, arrested, if not completely cured! How? Simply by being interested in others.
Now is that such a difficult pill to swallow to alleviate such a painful disease? Of course not-although it's not quite so easy as it sounds. At first you will probably have to force yourself to be interested in others. Pulling your interest away from yourself, your problems, your cares, is like pulling two powerful magnets apart-but you can do it! Force it for a while, you will be surprised to find that in short time you actually will be interested in others.