As technology advances, it becomes easier for us to focus on the results of a given task and lose touch with how that result was achieved. This is a general statement, but if you think of your daily life, you can see how this applies. For example, I seriously doubt that the majority of car owners actually know how that engine starts and how the fuel combusts into kinetic energy. I also doubt that owners of cell phones (which is about everyone nowadays) actually know the phone numbers of the majority of their contacts stored on their phone. This can be acknowledged down the line from how that box of cereal was produced to why that computer keeps showing that blue error screen.
I will admit that it is entirely possible to lead a successful life without obtaining the knowledge of all these processes. The trouble arises however when something along the course of your day goes wrong and a fix or amelioration is required. Without understanding the process, we are lost as to why the function failed. The result is confusion and wasted time and usually, the problem then becomes the burden of the people around the problem as well.
I will also like to state that there is absolutely nothing wrong with asking for help when the process has escaped you. We should all be happy to learn something new everyday. But for everyday items, especially those as part of your daily routine, I feel you should be familiar with how those things work. If you are constantly downloading music or movies or whatever off the internet, you should well know that there is a constant risk of viruses or malware. If you don't, then you do not know enough about what you are doing, much like driving around town without knowing to yield right of way to the stop sign on the right. You can get by without certain details, but when it comes up, you are going to wish you did.
I guess what this boils down to is my constant desire for efficiency. It seems like there is just always something going wrong or something out of place, any of which could be totally preventable or easily fixed. I feel that a large amount of stress and anxiety could be eliminated just through simple education. If you are familiar with how something works, you can walkthrough the process and step by step, eliminate possible errors. This puts the power back into the individuals hands and things don't grind to a halt while a solution is found.
This post resulted from me running into too many instances of ignorance. I know everyone is already as busy as can be, but if they would just take the time to learn about the whys and hows instead of just the whats and whens, I feel we would be living in a happier place. Plus, it is always a good feeling when you have fixed something yourself. Things will go wrong during the day, so just think of how many opportunities you have to cheer yourself up, not to mention the benefit of not inconveniencing the rest of the world around you because of your incomprehension.
I will also like to state that there is absolutely nothing wrong with asking for help when the process has escaped you. We should all be happy to learn something new everyday. But for everyday items, especially those as part of your daily routine, I feel you should be familiar with how those things work. If you are constantly downloading music or movies or whatever off the internet, you should well know that there is a constant risk of viruses or malware. If you don't, then you do not know enough about what you are doing, much like driving around town without knowing to yield right of way to the stop sign on the right. You can get by without certain details, but when it comes up, you are going to wish you did.
I guess what this boils down to is my constant desire for efficiency. It seems like there is just always something going wrong or something out of place, any of which could be totally preventable or easily fixed. I feel that a large amount of stress and anxiety could be eliminated just through simple education. If you are familiar with how something works, you can walkthrough the process and step by step, eliminate possible errors. This puts the power back into the individuals hands and things don't grind to a halt while a solution is found.
This post resulted from me running into too many instances of ignorance. I know everyone is already as busy as can be, but if they would just take the time to learn about the whys and hows instead of just the whats and whens, I feel we would be living in a happier place. Plus, it is always a good feeling when you have fixed something yourself. Things will go wrong during the day, so just think of how many opportunities you have to cheer yourself up, not to mention the benefit of not inconveniencing the rest of the world around you because of your incomprehension.
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You should have been an engineer.
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