Of Toppers & CAT Crackers...
Why does Mohan Dastoor comes in to collect his quiz paper and yell, “FUCK!!! I got a 20/25 in BIS? Yeh, kaise ho sakta hai?” that’s because he wants to create an impression in society that is consistent with his perceptions of success: being a bis-god. Nothing wrong in that. He also slogs his ass off to get that… so in the end, he gets what he wants and is happy.
Rewind… Lemme start at the beginning….. I have observed on several instances that toppers or students with exceptional academic records are not the most intelligent in their batch. Why is that?
We’ll try & find some explanations based on characters at my bschool (names have been changed to preserve the identity and privacy of people concerned)… Howard Gardner has formulated three sets of intelligences:
* Analytical Intelligence – Verbal ability, Mathematical Ability, Musical intelligence
* Physical Intelligence – Kinesthetic Intelligence, spatial Intelligence
* Personal Intelligence – Intrapersonal & Interpersonal intelligences
Throughout this article, I shall use the word “intelligence” to denote analytical intelligence as defined by Gardner. This is cool because logically that’s what should have a bearing on academic excellence.
The root cause of disparity is our craving for “belonging needs” on the Maslow’s hierarchy. Our psyche is shaped by a number of factors like society, our upbringing, friends etc. Because each of these factors are unique for all of us, over time we develop different views of goals. We also develop different perceptions on success. For A, being successful might be same as getting placed in Lehman Brothers. For B, being successful might be same as flirting with the cutest junior girl on campus. For C, it might be same as drowning the most drinks in the wet night.
Due to our craving for the “belonging needs”, we behave in a way that would create an impression in society that is consistent with our perception of success. Some people think they will be successful if they impress the professors, some people want to impress friends, some people want to impress girls….It is something like “positioning” in marketing.
Take Anand. He walks in and says, “machi…fully stoned last night… have never drank so much in my life…” Or Krish, who puts up a “Kriz & Atm show”…. Or Baba & Bansi who do so much DCP in class that I sometimes feel like ripping my arm off so that i will have something to beat them to death!!!
academic excellence is not all about intelligence. Intelligence is only a hygiene factor... as long as you are not mentally deranged, it should suffice... It’s all about your individual perceptions of success and communicating to the society that you have reached there, by hook or crook. Note that communicating is more important than achieving the "success" yourself... u think being a fin god is success... your work is done if u know nothing about fin, but still can communicate effectively to the ibank during those crucial 20 minutes of placement interview
You think being “cool” is a way of being successful. There is a perception in society that rock music and smoking make a person cool… so u torture your neighbours to large doses of Iron Maiden & Metallica even though u don’t understand a shit of what they are screaming!!! But all’s well that ends well… Finally, we all get what we want… so its cool…..
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Gentle humor and some lateral thinking are the objectives of this blog... take all yer ego, seal it in a small box before reading this....
Rewind… Lemme start at the beginning….. I have observed on several instances that toppers or students with exceptional academic records are not the most intelligent in their batch. Why is that?
We’ll try & find some explanations based on characters at my bschool (names have been changed to preserve the identity and privacy of people concerned)… Howard Gardner has formulated three sets of intelligences:
* Analytical Intelligence – Verbal ability, Mathematical Ability, Musical intelligence
* Physical Intelligence – Kinesthetic Intelligence, spatial Intelligence
* Personal Intelligence – Intrapersonal & Interpersonal intelligences
Throughout this article, I shall use the word “intelligence” to denote analytical intelligence as defined by Gardner. This is cool because logically that’s what should have a bearing on academic excellence.
The root cause of disparity is our craving for “belonging needs” on the Maslow’s hierarchy. Our psyche is shaped by a number of factors like society, our upbringing, friends etc. Because each of these factors are unique for all of us, over time we develop different views of goals. We also develop different perceptions on success. For A, being successful might be same as getting placed in Lehman Brothers. For B, being successful might be same as flirting with the cutest junior girl on campus. For C, it might be same as drowning the most drinks in the wet night.
Due to our craving for the “belonging needs”, we behave in a way that would create an impression in society that is consistent with our perception of success. Some people think they will be successful if they impress the professors, some people want to impress friends, some people want to impress girls….It is something like “positioning” in marketing.
Take Anand. He walks in and says, “machi…fully stoned last night… have never drank so much in my life…” Or Krish, who puts up a “Kriz & Atm show”…. Or Baba & Bansi who do so much DCP in class that I sometimes feel like ripping my arm off so that i will have something to beat them to death!!!
academic excellence is not all about intelligence. Intelligence is only a hygiene factor... as long as you are not mentally deranged, it should suffice... It’s all about your individual perceptions of success and communicating to the society that you have reached there, by hook or crook. Note that communicating is more important than achieving the "success" yourself... u think being a fin god is success... your work is done if u know nothing about fin, but still can communicate effectively to the ibank during those crucial 20 minutes of placement interview
You think being “cool” is a way of being successful. There is a perception in society that rock music and smoking make a person cool… so u torture your neighbours to large doses of Iron Maiden & Metallica even though u don’t understand a shit of what they are screaming!!! But all’s well that ends well… Finally, we all get what we want… so its cool…..
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Gentle humor and some lateral thinking are the objectives of this blog... take all yer ego, seal it in a small box before reading this....
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