Communication that made me SMART

“Lost in all of his endeavors

He wanted to memorize what he had learnt!

Of course cramming was not in his list of efforts

Communication was where he saw the ray of light! ”

                               

Keep all your thoughts aside, you fellows, just for 2 minutes and just give me all your attention. You see the screen right in front of your eyes.

Imagine you are a technical person. What is the screen made up of? Gorilla glass 3? What do you mean by that? Is it a TFT screen? What does TFT stand for?

You are a mechanical engineer. You are going on a highway and see a humongous trailer passing by and drop your jaw down the floor seeing its size. Did you notice the spring used by it? Or ever estimated the wheel diameter? Or the wheel base?

What you’ve studied in your dusty, bulky, heavy-weighted text books is nothing but the real life things (except for those long mathematical derivations. Even I am searching for the practical application of those! LOL! Just kidding). You may think that you try your best to remember what you have studied, don’t you? Give it a second thought just like that timid, hard-working yet average scoring, short haired, college boy, Raina about whom you’ll be reading. Hope it leaves you with something you need to inculcate in yourself. Very much beneficial to you, it will take hardly a few minutes to gain what you need!

(As narrated by Raina himself)

It’s my day 1 at college and I see that grandiose campus in front of my eyes where all the legs are busy with the shoulders heavy with different responsibilities. I see different inventions outside the main building of the college. I approach towards it. Bending down to that innovation, I read, “Invented by: Parthiv Shah & Malik Khan.” My medulla imagines another great innovation with the name on it, “Raina Malhotra”. No longer did this thought vanish off my brain than my face flush in a huge grin.

I spent a few months in the university studying and today is the day if my results. As normal, those are heartbeats that are banging on my eardrums. My eyes on the notice board and my eyes sparkle of the tears when I see an ‘F’ across my name.

“I studied hard. Worked so hard. Skipped meals and sleep and all I get is an ‘F’?” I curse my fate. Failing in my academics is one thing and moreover, I have to tell this news to my parents. Great! A great hurdle in front of me I have to face.

Coaching class, extra class, expert lectures- all these stuffs couldn’t yield the beneficial results in me. All they taught was the same as that mentioned in textbooks. And also a few SMTs (Short Method Tricks).

All my brain can think is to quit my studies now. No doubt I have tremendous interest in my studies but I become just so clueless when it comes to remembering what I’ve studied. I put my head in my hands in accepting my disability.

Light strikes my mind from nowhere when a thought just enters in skull. “Why do we study? What is the fruit of the hard work we are doing? Why we brush our gray cells so much again and again? Where do I lack?” I scrutinize my thoughts, over and over again. It’s obvious that what I study has real life applications.

I see a car standing right there in the parking. Its engine I suppose is of 1400 cc. Its engine chamber must have been made from casting process, piston from mild steel. If its light-weight, maybe the body of the car must have been of aluminum on which, rolling process has been done. Whoa! Studying is fun. I explore the root to good knowledge. I feel good. I feel as if I have discovered myself. The more I start talking about such technical stuffs, the more curiosity arises in me. My friend James comes as I am trying to know more about the car. He adds, “The suspension varies in that of this car and those heavy-weight vehicles. They use leaf spring to carry the heavy loads.” I reply to his info by nodding my head in acceptance, “I see”.

Heaven bestowed blessings on me when I realized the simplest secret to efficient reading i.e. involving the stuff I study in my communication. The more I will talk about it, the more curious I will be and thus, I will learn more.

Raina achieved nirvana in education when he realized that the secret lied in communication itself. We see number of things daily but if we question something, if we talk about the things we visualize, only then we can learn more, not by just seeing it and letting it pass by. Communicate technically. Communicate efficiently. Do not let the power of your tongue go in vain. God Gracious! Ever thought that a tongue can help you exercise your brain!