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importance of academic achievements and they discourage their children to play, participate in extra-
curricular activities or socialise ‘coz’ that might be distracting. They forget that association with
practical life cannot be dispensed with. In practical life solutions are created or improvised.
Participation in games, cultural programmes and extra curricular activities help a person improvise
solutions, imagine better and scrounge ideas successfully.
Practical Solution !
Once Natwar Lal, the notorious fraud was apprehended by the Police and was being taken for interrogation
in the police jeep. He was caught with a box full of currency notes acquired fraudulently from some Bank.
Natwar Lal managed to open the box in some pretext and started flying currency notes on the road drawing
attention of the public. People ran amok to loot notes and a big chaos was created. everyone wanted the biggest
booty! Traffic came to halt. Leaving the box of notes open to the public he escaped watching people struggle
and fight for the biggest share from the god send gift !
Intelligent Fools
A story from the Panchatantra. You must have read the story of five fast friends; four of them were well read
while the fifth one could not study due to poverty. Once there was a big famine in their locality and they all
decided to go to another place in search of livelihood. While crossing a thick forest during their journey, they
found bones of a tiger. The four friends decided to try their book knowledge in reviving the dead tiger to life. At
the final moment when they were about to revive the tiger, their uneducated friend cautioned them against their
misadventure. When they refused, he climbed a tall tree for his own security. The educated friends brought the
tiger to life. The tiger attacked immediately and devoured them! The intelligent fools paid the heaviest price of
their life to test their textbook knowledge.
Reasoning Ability is the ability to grasp essentials well and to arrive at conclusions by rational
thinking. Reasoning ability includes receptivity, inquiring attitude, logical operations and selection of
priorities. Various sub elements of this factor are mentioned below:—
Receptivity is the ability to comprehend and assimilate new impressions. Contributing to this
ability are interest, attention and grasping power. Of course, Basic Intelligence, which is the ability to
perceive relations among objects, also contributes to a great deal. Receptivity however is affected
greatly by temporal factors. Receptivity is not ability to perceive but effect of many factors.
Inquiring Attitude Urge to expand one’s knowledge, information repertoire and explore one’s
surroundings result into inquiring attitude. Further, it is seen into the curiosity to obtain details of any
situation. By an active inquiring attitude, a person becomes precise, to the point and avoids living with
ambiguity. A successful commanding officer knows every inch of his territory and he has such a strong
information network that nothing remains out of his sight. Management by ‘wandering about’
prescribed for the heads of institutions is now a very popular method specially suited in the military set
up. Hallmark of inquiring attitude results in alertness to meet any eventuality. Anything unusual must
draw your attention. An ADSO (Air Defence System Operator) must be able to differentiate between a
friendly or hostile aircraft within twenty seconds from the first appearance of beep on the radar console.
One of the principles of war is the ‘element of surprise’. The enemy wants to catch you happening
and he will be successful if you are neglecting inquiring attitude and lie complacent!
Inquiring Attitude !
Santa Singh started his lessons in English but soon found himself amidst in an array of confusions. If a
vegetarian ‘eats’ vegetables, a non-vegetarian ‘eats’ meat; (non-vegetable) then a humanitarian must be the one
who…… Any answers ?
Logical Operation is done to reach the essentials, to weed the chaff from the grain and shift the
various elements in order of importance for achieving the best solution of the problem deploying
resources in the most economical way. Life is illusive in many ways.
Enemy is won not by strength or weapons but by understanding the moves of enemy and employing
better and illusive tactics.