Satish Santhanam Profile picture
Oct 19 9 tweets 5 min read Read on X
If we go in wrong direction on highway, we should take next exit, return back all the way to point zero and go in correct direction.

This will work if the driver is willing to understand he is driving in wrong route in the first place.

Even our life is like this. Amid so much distractions the concentration is less when more options are available. We travel as per the gang with whom we travel. Still say while browsing phone or laptop we do it alone. If they browse in not so useful direction its double work.

Doing small tasks and completing tasks is not what an addict will do. So that appears to be a hint to be in positive direction. A simple example.

If a teacher has to correct someone.

1. First the teacher has to understand the current situation
2. He has to impedance match and work to bring to position zero.
3. From position zero he has to show the way to positive a direction involving in reality (or similar to practical classes in Education) with ability to bootstrap himself meaning one concept used to strengthen to understand next concept and so on.

That's when someone is supposed to be helpful to weaker section of society. That's when it becomes "past is past".

Tip: I always tell others to write as much as possible and release thoughts out. Even if we speak 10 hours to someone no one will listen. The crowded thoughts when started to release is like 10k hours running time. Just exaggerated... but that's the easiest way to come to position to absorb new things means first clearing the clutter in mind by writing on various websites or social media. Which teacher will analyze other thoughts and feel empathy etc. Even they have their own problems.

Tip 2: is start helping someone in small tasks. I tell best is find people asking questions who you have expertise and then answer them. You will get confidence that you have helped. Answer may or may not be acceptable to them but your effort of sincere.

Like that its for old problems newer solutions. Thanks to technology, communication, software, hardware etc but have a firmware mentally. 😀
Everyone does some task to become valuable. Say plan will be like when I become rich I will buy few things & help others like that.

Actually, the way to become valuable is to "empower" someone by knowledge or good thoughts or even as good teacher.

But all are doing that. So many courses on internet on any subject. But sad news is pupils are not receptive as earlier. Reason they are also distracted.

So the need of hour is to bring pupils to old level of concentration. I also have enrolled on so many courses but unable to complete due to different priorities at different levels. But even if we invest 2 hours per week we should be in receptive mindset. The other side of lawn always looks green meaning what we learn may not give immediate materialistic results. All these are also part of sacrifice as education involves sacrifice. Over a period of time, we will firm up. It's even beyond habit its like imbibed or has become part and parcel of life like that. But to my experience we can use 90% of skills to build community in some form or other which is like correct journey route at least if not destination.

Oldest profession say blacksmith, he can write blogs on his profession, publish in various social media and create interest in others. If used somewhere in remote place his skills after learning from his post, it's more of achievement to everything involved be it internet, photos creating softwares, the themes providers, the technical implementations behind the framework so on. In OSI model its a sense of achievement to people who worked in all layers. Of course the blacksmith will feel nice about his personal success oblivious of how his work has created merit in others as well.
That was just level 1. Now that he has released his thoughts about his profession, his mind is clutter free and receptive to newer ideas in the same area of blacksmith. He will search few links in internet and subsequently any other browsing will show ads relevant to his profession. He then goes to Level 2 and beyond and improves on himself. He becomes teacher, employer and creates an interesting ecosystem around his profession. The difference is the ecosystem is across the web. The web gave him to release his thoughts about his profession.
His self esteem grows. He earns what is called as a "digital identity". The future will be like not checking the reviews or ratings or even opinions about a person but will be based on his digital contribution. One of important characteristics is consistency in writing. So many people start blogging but stop after few blogs. So in my ventpipe.blog I put that my intension of sharing is I get helped by this and hope that some of it may help you as well for all good reasons if that helps.
There are courses how to make automated blogs/channels etc and make money by ads etc. I think the system is then used for not with involvement and used without much gratitude. Even that is OK. If someone asks questions will you be able to answer? If a certain percentage of people falters using those ideas will you accept to own the responsibility? No one will care that much.

We used to send emails and read newspaper en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_(we… in no internet days. So we should use what is available with discipline like say water, road services etc.

Eventually the posts should not be just ideas/good thoughts. It should be "idea creating or thoughts provoking".
These are all ideas around positive psychology

coursera.org/account/accomp…
You become valuable by not just improving yourself but improving others.

Spoiler alert: That may be very boring.

Proof: After completion of say professional degree no one teaches primary kids the concepts taking say tuitions. It's very boring but for kids it is so important to have a live role model like those highly educated people for them to look upon.

Importance: We are building the next class students for our society than making comfortable people 0.1% more comfortable by spending years of hard work. Nothing wrong but think about efforts v/s impact.
Image

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Satish Santhanam

Satish Santhanam Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(