Population effect on Employees

No, This article is not about how difficult it is to get a Job, because of huge population in our country.. well maybe i'll talk a little about it, but its not the central theme, only a by-product.

I met  people from Finland, Denmark, Germany,etc during my travels, I envied them because they had so much time to explore and do what they love (People whom I met seemed to love to travel, duh! ;) ..others did something else maybe.. ).

We can hardly get that amount of time and money to travel or do anything for that matter. Why is it that way ?

Number of Jobs vs Population.. is an Important factor in this.
Its crucial as it decides the individuals choice - Stay & work, even though its boring because I may not get another Job or Lets do this thing I love, if it fails I can always get some or the other job.

When jobs are in abundance, people stop worrying about them. Simple. So they worry about bigger things in life - purpose, knowledge, etc.. and hence their adventures - travelling ,etc.
I remember reading in Vivekananda's works that most philosophers came from affluent background i.e they had every luxury in life, take for example : Gautama Buddha - A prince, royal lineage. What did they do when they had everything - Looked within for real peace & happiness.

When Jobs are scarce & Population is high. Welcome to Musical chair competition.
What do you do when you get chair while playing the game ? You sit, never leave it, else the other guy will steal it and win !
People catch hold of the Job (chair) just because, someone else might take it.. And nooo they cannot allow it to happen, They want to play the game !!! the so important game..
They don't want to leave the Job to do what they want in life or to try and understand what they want in life. Life later is just working your way up where there is less competition i.e to the "More Jobs & less population competing for it" space that exists for highly qualified ppl and accumulating wealth.

Very few people get the jobs that is really they are looking for, others are there just by chance, its not what they were looking for at all. Tell me how much probability is there that you get your favourite chair in the game you r playing with many people, less chairs! It would be a miracle to get that chair.
So basically except very rare lucky ones, everyone has to sit in a chair which is not their original choice, but just to survive in the game they do it..

But the whole point is Leave the game, look for something meaningful.
But theres a problem with doing what you want or to look for meaning..
When I was on a leave, most couldn't understand why I was doing it, including me most of the time :P ..
So, it requires lot of self-understanding to do what one wants else you'll be mocked by society and compelled to play the game. If you have to strength to handle it then Leave the Game ! I did, temporarily ;) only that much strength I had


 The End--------My Musical chair game story below - you may skip this -------- The End :P

Let me add my sad scenario here, please... Ok - I am the guy in the game with a special consideration, I have been given a chair to sit in the beginning and they tell me while others have to leave after each round, I don't have to do it.. WHaaat ? Yes, others run, but I can sit n enjoy.. COOoooOOOL!!
No, not cool! Whats the fun in it ? I can choose to run like others or I can get out of this STUPID game, do something Useful with my Life...
What am I talking about :  Im in a Govt job, They will not kick me out, so I don't need to run, but does that mean I will quit just to have fun in the running game ? Noooooo ...

Choosing to run would mean  - Go for MS in USA and take private job and play Musical chair game..
Doing something useful is the answer!

I found a clever way to do it, the Indian way, I put my kerchief on the chair saying I'll come back and meanwhile tried my hand at different things I could and still trying... :)
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Confuse them first !

We remember the "AHA" moments ! We cannot forget them.

The process the whole situation goes through to create an AHA moment is the Teaching process designed by nature. This process should be incorporated into our Teaching model.

Whats the process ?
Glad you asked, lets break it up.

1) First (because of your curiosity) , you are confused. You see something, don't understand it at first - nature doesn't put in the effort to simplify and explain it to you, it just does what it wants and you are confused.

2) If you are still curious and willing to put in some more energy, you notice finer details, some patterns start grabbing your attention. But, you still haven't figured it all out yet. Here's the interesting part:  Most people give up here cuz probably its not worth the effort and that's not the interesting part, This is, read on.
If, at this point, someone who has figured it out, comes and explains you what he learnt, you'll get it!
It won't be a big "EUREKA!" moment but a small AHA moment and a significant one!

Thus you learnt. You were taught.

The teaching method must adopt this same natural process.
a) Don't put effort to simplify anything and display something (that is to be taught) in the way you do it.
Say you are teaching kids on how to solve a Mathematical Equation, first solve a few in your natural style, freely, without an effort to simplify it. Just ask them to do the steps you did, without explaining the WHY of steps. Just teach them ROTE learning !

WHAaaAAaaAAAT ???!!!??

Now, applying the method, students solve equations and get answers MIRACULOUSLY. 

This excites some, confuses some students, frustrates some and some will simply not care as long as they are getting the right answers.

Build curiosity. Ask them to understand on their own why the technique you taught them SIMPLY WORKS ! 

b) Now the time is ripe to reveal the secret logical workings behind the method.
AHA!! Learning process complete :)
Some will have an AHAAA! moment, some will be waiting to say "See I told you!" to their friends, some will go wrong about guessing the logic & will come to you with doubts and as with any method some will just NOT CARE ! But guess what, these not caring students atleast learnt a rote method to get answers , they can now, at least solve the problem !!

So.. Keep Calm and Teach By Rote ;)