If you drop food, your parents said it's safe to eat if it's on the ground for less than 5 seconds, so you often picked it up and ate it quickly. When you're playing basketball, there is an area of the court where you're allowed to be only for 3 seconds. 3 seconds may not seem like a lot, but if you stay longer it's a foul. Cricket has a DRS review where they give you up to 15 seconds to review a call. But what happens in real life is that we don't take those 3, 5, 15 seconds to make decisions. More often than not, we react almost like an animal response.
When a crowded train arrives, everyone rushes to board without allowing passengers to get off, whether it's a local or long-distance train. Whether it's maneuvering through traffic or hailing a fast-moving auto-rickshaw, it seems that patience is quickly falling out of style. The art of pausing, observing, and then acting, appears to be slipping through our fingers. You will nudge, squeeze, push.
The question for us is, is this behavior really affecting our long-term growth? It is no secret. Everybody knows that. You just have to watch a cricket match. A staggering 120 million viewers are tuning in to witness India in action against Namibia (Jiostar streaming). It's a game where you know India will win and you celebrate.
So, our psyche is now more and more defined by a goal rather than a process. A lot of changes that have happened globally in the world have also been driven by goals. Whether it's migration, whether it's making some country great again, etc. Nobody's really been worried about the process. In the meantime, all the processes have been kind of cornered into irrelevance.
So, what does the world look like where you're all focusing on goals with a trigger happy mindset? When procedures become just footnotes, we oversimplify complex situations and overlook the importance of the journeys involved.
Can we truly envision a world where objectives overshadow the pathways to achieving them? Now might be the moment to rethink and implement processes, balancing the appeal of fast results with the lasting value of a thorough plan.
Footnotes
However fast we run, we are not going to be a developed country in the next 20 years. Check these blogs out
https://aviewpoint.in/posts/india-per-capita-gdp . Its also important not to get so bogged down in process and not move forward
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