W...H...Y...???

The last month and a half has been the most hectic period of time for most students and their parents, even I have faced that phase. Results, admission procedures, basically a crossroads for quite a lot of population in the society. Students I came across were spread across all categories, from average to excellent scoring students...

However, something that most of those students were missing, by my observation, was a will to learn something new, to do something good, to achieve something. Mind you, this is not about just engineering or medical or just technical education in general. This is about anything, any possible career option from architecture, archaeology, psychology, politics, and much more!

This actually put my brain into motion as to why that will, that ambition was missing from those children, those teenagers... Why is that my generation or for that matter, our earlier generation still able to compete with us when it comes to learning something, understanding something?

What I concluded was this simple word WHY...

Now, linking up three letters to the future of the nation, the attitude of youths might seem quite casual initially but upon deeper inspection it actually makes sense. I'll try and simplify...

A lot of people, students, parents, children, juniors, etc frequently ask me, how do I know so many things, or how is my knowledge up to date, or how do I always manage to have a say in almost any topic going on around. How does one develop that skill? A few people managed to convince me initially by saying it was a natural gift, a genetic inheritance given the fact that my father has a much more deeper and much more vast vault of knowledge...

But somehow I din't remain convinced for too long and I decided to work up some pattern, some formula, some logic that could, if not ensure the best but at least enhance the knowledge content of a person. And that is when these three letters struck me...

The formula, again only as per my observation, is pretty simple and effective consisting of just two steps:

1. Whatever be, ask "WHY?"...
2. Try to find an answer to this "WHY"...

This simple formula if properly implemented will definitely help anyone and everyone. It's not just about science, this formula works for absolutely ANYTHING! Science, history, geography, drawing, literature, design, fashion, art, commerce, just everything! The only thing that matters is the intensity with which you pursue step 2. How you manage to get the answers is irrelevant. What only matters is that you try. Even pursuing a wrong answer is fine because ultimately, time will take you to the right answer, anyhow. So, just be curious about everything. And never stop, just go on asking why because these three letters hold the key to explore everything!

Now, only if anyone must have thought and asked themselves, "WHY did he write this article?" ;)

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