Learning

Do you love to learn new things? Do you get bored with the same repeated work everyday? Do you love to mentor someone who looks up to you and want to learn from you? I think most of us will answer "Yes" to the above questions.

Then why do many people have job insecurity? Why do people think that they should not share knowledge else they will lose the upper hand? Why do people cannot tolerate intelligent questions and at times get irritated by questions which they cannot answer?

It is very ironical that most common thing which is missing in most of the people is common sense. I will initially work hard to get a new skill or knowledge of any particular subject of my interest, once I get a good hold of it I would work harder to teach the same to as many people as I can. If I am able to do a good job at it then I can offload my work to the new crowd who has just learned it. This gives me liberty to go and learn something new again :-)

Hence as soon as I get hold of something I search for someone who can replace me and as far as I can keep on replacing myself I do make sure that I keep on moving to the new grounds of learning and pass on the knowledge which I collected on the way.

Now for a second, think about it in another way, if you are good at something then you will feel secure since that is one skill which you think you have which no one else has. Hence most of the time you will be busy in protecting your special skill (special as per you) and won't pass on the knowledge. You might feel secure but you might not realize that you are locking yourself to do the same task forever since there is no replace with you. Soon you will have the same old boring routine.

Hence the key to move forward is to always try to replace yourself and pass on the knowledge at your best। Remember if you do a nasty job in passing on the knowledge then you will be the only one who will keep on coming back to the same task to finish it properly. The better you pass on the knowledge the better you can move forward to learn new things in your life.

Rahul V Shah