To act on the understaning

An example, to perceive other people as resources is a way of understanding society too; and it is responsibility of those who perceive people (most easily in their day to day transactions) as a resource, to use the resource of people properly and without misuse. Of course those who perceive others as resource must have no objections to being perceived as resource. To perceive human beings as resource is not as simple as $23 a barrel of oil. This will insult everyone. The true nature of human resource is to be understood to create an environment it which this resource can be utilized, developed and refined.

Above is another interpretation of society or our working environment. To understand atleast one interpretation is important, if we don’t want to be overwhelmed by some chain of events, etc. Different people need to understand the system in different words and thus many interpretations come into being. Contradictions in different interpretations mean that they arise not from one theory. But unlike physics, where two contradicting theories cannot coexist in one universe. hmmm... also in physics the unification has not been solved and so my above statement would stand to be incorrect for now. But existence of two theories which are both correct and they exist with contradictions, means there is another level of generalization awaiting us and more interpretations.

The work of theorists is to form interpretations and the work of others is to understand one of the interpretations and apply it in their domain. Often those who are applying, get confused in trying to understand many interpretations of the same thing without clearly understanding the similarity or why many interpretations exist. They confuse each interpretation and think of them to be theories.

The first time I realized that I was making the above mistake, was when I had learnt many and was planning to learn more programming languages; without ever asking myself why are there so many of them. I guess students are the ones who get caught in learning too many interpretations without understanding that they are same in theory.

When I moved into more theoretical areas or the next level, I have started realizing the same, many interpretations exist. Even realizing it, I find it very pleasurable to understand how each interpretation is similar and yet useful in its own way. This time, I think the important question to ask is why are certain interpretations in the center (with the theory) and all students read them, while other interpretations find themselves more aloof and left to be known to only those who have read breadth and lengths of the subject. At present it seems like, simplicity, generality, solution of other related problems, etc are the reasons.

For me, it is about time I should be solving problems rather than enjoying horizontals. Just to be determined about what one must do, is a good application of the theory that one forms from experiences.