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Most often a travel to south Indian has truly made me realize the way to eat from plantain leaves and how to only use your fingers and not the entire palm in the process of doing so!!

Nearly every eatery that we stopped by, offered us food on the leaves and I was amazed at how dhoti clad men with their pristine white shirts managed to polish off their meals by licking their fingers and yet not spilling one drip of rasam or sambhar on them, it is a tact and one that involves a lot of looking into, studying the way food is eaten and practicing it a few times till you get it right.

As I ventured into this adventure I realized I had to primarily unlearn to be conscious, to be quick with my reflexes (involving mixing and slurping down the served food) and also multi-task by keeping up the conversation with my friends and use my inactive hand to gulp water, refuse more helpings and water down my meal with the sweet kheer. But a few messy stained dresses and unfinished meals down the lane I’m now quite a pro….what got me thinking in this process is that be it in an organization, or an area of personal interest the only thing that pushes you forward is the will to learn socially and adapt accordingly.

Many a time’s experience is our private store house of knowledge that we have accumulated through years, exactly in the same manner that the eating off plantain leaf is discussed. Experience helps practice information and successful practice leads us to become experts in that field. Where experience fails we try to quiz around through social media circles like Google and YouTube to come up with answers and in the process we still continue to Learn. Discussions with our peer groups or sharing hours of debates over a cup of tea have been culture signs that we as a race love to exchange ideas, learn from other views and yet grow in our knowledge.

What technology has done is empowering this very knowledge with discipline, now wisdom is reined and what an ocean of it is available to dip our pails in! Social media has given us the choice to seek beyond our limited familiarity and explore the answers that could be still expanding our probabilities. Google can throw up very relevant information to the slightest of doubts born by you, LinkedIn and Face Book help us maintain ties that earlier would require extensive travel and expenses, yet they also help us leverage  them in ways unknown to us till now.

So that brings us back to square one, learn we have to and if we complain or grumble the world will not stop to ask why not?, instead we have to learn to learn  to keep pace by attempting the new and trying out ways in which we can up the quotient of our learning experiences.

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