Whats similar in the following questions?
Do you want to be shot to death or stabbed to death?
Or something very familiar to people in my line of profession.. “Do you want to stay back late tonight and finish off the work… or do you want to work on the weekend?”.
Or the dreaded question by an irritated friend/spouse/family member who’s dear to you… “Can you come and help me out now!? Yes or No?” in the middle of a personally important errand.
Who would you vote for “x” or “y” when you’re doubtful about both?
Well, as i see it, this is all results of living in a digital world. But hey, we do not do we? People expect you to take a stance and most of the time either of the options that they are promising. Don’t get me wrong. this is not always a 2 point option. Consider this. When you ask your parents for a smart phone, and your dad takes you to a store and gives you an option to choose from 3 of age old dumb phones. What i see as the problem is the definitiveness of the options that you are given. What do you do in such situations? What are you options with picking from the rock and a hard place?
When a mother asks her child “Do you want to drink the milk or should i call dad?”, the little mind wanders, he considers the implications of the same… Do i want to drink this milk which i don’t like.. and cry by my own? or wait for my dad and his dreaded look and burst into tears and still drink the milk? The poor inexperienced kid ends up drinking the milk accompanied by tears & sound effects directly proportional to how much he hates to drink the milk. Once he grows up a bit more, one fine day when he’s presented with the same threat again, he would say, Or… Maybe i’ll have the Orange juice instead. Don’t be angry with your kid here.. he’s developing his creativity… Nurture it…
Now thats a very simple scenario. As one is in the grown up world, things gets way too complicated. Now the survival depends on how well you have developed your creativity. Depends on how well you could create an option out of thin air which could be partially acceptable to all parties in question. Be forewarned… this doesn’t work always. You got to constantly pre-evaluate your options or else you could end up losing your life metaphorically in most cases.
Lets look at a few options in the same scenario’s listed as above..
Death by Stab/Gun fire? - Why don’t u throw me off the mountain which is not very far.. only like half an hour away…
Work Conundrum - the options are many.. but i think I’ll reserve my own methods on this one to myself in case of a future actual scenario :P
Person close to you asking for a favor - This is almost always a yes. and you can extract your way out for your personal errand on how you are going to definitely help him out. for e.g.: “Yes… for sure… why don’t i drop you, let you freshen up and pick you up for your errand in half an hour” and in that time, you could get done with your stuff! :P
Voting? Well you could just pick one who that person supports or You could just try to remain in an undecided stance. But it gets tricky when you are asking yourself that question if you don’t approve of either of the candidates..
These are definitely very simple & predictable scenarios & solutions to those that i have mentioned. My point only being to trigger the parallel thinking and look for way out.
Have kids asked you on what is the point of learning math? Here... you have a direct application of decimals and why you need it.
"Maybe", "Try" and complete obliviousness could be some of the powerful tools on the unlikely chance of you not knowing where to start. They help you in key aspects like buying time, avoiding accountability when you are unsure, and complete bail. But if you do choose to use these powerful tools, i must ask you to pledge to use the same only for the good of the relative world depending on the area of impact. You know, they say, with great power comes great responsibilities.
Enjoy your life responsibly! Until we meet another time..
These are from my limited experience in this world, but if you have some other parallel thoughts, i’d love to know.. Put them here in comments please :).
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