Test
Struggle - Test - Hardwork v/s Struggle - Test - Struggle
One of the most famous recent trends is the idea of life-long learning. Many people talk about but very tell you about the motive behind the idea. Why keep on learning? Let's jump into it.
One of the things I've learnt from my little professional experiences is the trick to ease hardships. Everyone gets angry from time to time and sad and scared but the art of finding comedy in tragedy is a gift only few people are blessed with. Being able to laugh when things go wrong is not something everyone can do and things going wrong is not something everyone can bounce back from in the first place.
I spend a good amount of time in breaking systems. I get into a system. Explore stuff, encounter limitations and look for ways to overcome those limitations with the resources available within that system. For example, how to find out if someone who has their read recite off on WhatsApp has read your message? Or how to take a screenshot of someones snap without the app notifying them? If you know these, good for you if you don't, it's not that hard once you think about it. Just think about the level of system you are working at and you can crack it with easy.
Now for the reason behind continuous learning. The first thing is understanding that many people struggle with work and only a few work hard.
Let's start at 0 for this one, at some point in their endeavours, everyone who has been struggling finds themselves in a really tough situation. Something that requires extraordinary effort and unfortunately people give up at this point and take-up something else that is easier to do and is less challenging. They don't even take the test of fate. But a few of us do. They love challenges, see an opportunity in it, decide to push through it and as you'd expect most of them make it to the other side.
I believe what is required for one to thrive on this side of the test is hardwork. The test teaches us something—things that we must put to use on the other side but some people maybe become lazy or feel drained after one sprint and because they didn't put the learnings to use, they find themselves in another difficult situation. The ones who give-in to the test this time settle for something easy but better that those who dropped out in phase 0. It's kind of a selection process by nature that puts us all through and the number of tests us to ensure survival of the fittest.
Those who keep on working hard make it through these tests with relative ease to the point where they start learning spontaneously and don't even realise when the test came and went. Those who take it easy and don't learn from the tests go back to struggling and eventually settle for something below their potential.
I believe many people who are living a low quality lifestyle is because the person who should have worked harder gave up and didn't realise their potential. Not just effecting their own family in a negative way but not effecting the families they were supposed to uplift with their efforts. I'm no one to tell you what to do with your life but, if you are not fulfilling your potential, as a friend I will ask you, “Is this what you amount to?”
These tests are kind of a manifestation of what I talked about in my very first blog. The harder we work, the easier things become for us. The easier they become, the less time they take. The less time our work takes, the more time we have left. The more time we have, the more people we can impact. The goal of continuous learning is to avoid hardships or more accurately make them easy on us.