A beautiful mind!

Welcome all to Jai's joint. This is my second attempt to get blogging(needless to mention, my first one turned into an futile exercise) and I hope to make this one a continuous journey as long as I could. A journey that would reflect my life's experiences and learning. A journey that would strive to make a positive impact in the lives of the people who pass by this joint.

Enough for an introduction and lets get to the topic. Through my first blog, I wanted to share an important thought that dawned upon me last week. Its nothing great but a simple Back to the Basics stuff that I realized and thought will share.

I was going through this online video tutorial last week on a certain Networking topic.At the end of the tutorial, I felt immensely satisfied and happy that I have learnt a supposedly complex topic with relative ease and a thorough understanding. When I did some introspection on how the author of this presentation managed to get across the technology so easily, I found out that he has actually answered a few basic questions on the technology. Suppose that the topic I was learning was MPLS technology, the author had tried to answer few questions:

1. What is MPLS technology?
2. Why it was introduced or why it came to practice?
3. When and where was it introduced?
4. How to implement this technology?

and by knowing the answers to these simple questions, I realized that I have gained a profound knowledge on this topic.

Hence, I concluded that any complex thing in this world can be learnt or mastered by answering these simple questions or put in a different way, to learn new things, you should try and ask these questions and get answers - the What, Why, When, Where and How?
In fact i think that the five basic subjects that are taught in our schools are nothing but the answers to these simple questions. Lets try to map them:

• English/Language I = What?
• Language II - Again What?
• Maths - How?
• Science - Why?
• Social Studies(History&Geography) - When and Where?

In conclusion, lets try to encourage asking these questions on any things we are interested. Lets teach our kids that to have an exploring mind, they should ask these questions on anything and everything they stumble upon.