When you are born in a developing country, such as India, developing oneself is a challenge. You are not taught how to cope up with stress at work, how to survive in a competitive environment, and certainly not how to develop yourself while juggling multiple things. Only when you enter into the real world, you are exposed to these situations. Some cope up, some excels in handling them, while others father away miserably.
There can be number of reasons behind it. Self-development begins after birth. Form the very first day you are born, you start learning new things. Then comes institutions.
In school you are taught different lessons, but its essence is not taught properly. If only you have a good teacher, you can learn the true essence behind all the lessons. But in today’s world, where you have to pay an hefty amount just to get into a good school, finding a good teacher is a challenge itself.
There was an ad, which I recently saw again; parents went to a good school and the teacher, who was communicating with them is saying that, they have to buy uniforms, books, stationary items from the school. On hearing that the parents. Though the concept is some what exaggerate, but the truth behind the concept is true.
Then comes college, where peer pressure is more important than development. Even after college, the struggle for developing one-selves goes on.
Throughout our education life, we are really not taught much on self development, but the focus is more on education and extra curricular activities, which are just parts of our development circle. It is only when we are thrown in the real life, where we face issues, which makes us realize, that neither are we trained nor we have any clue what to do in these situations. We look for mentors, friends and family advice. We search internet, books to find solutions.
Sometimes simple guidance can help. It can be from family, it can be from friends, it can be from institutions or counsels. It seems, for the same reason there are a growing demand of corporate counsel and training. In a developed country, there are sessions taken on how to cope up with situations, which are not taught in schools. There are specific training and career guidance in the middle of sessions, to help students find the right path.
In developing countries, we need proper guidance, not just for education, but for coping up with real-time situations. Training is required for students to pick the correct career path. As most of the people in developing countries are stressed out of selecting wrong career path. There needs to be proper guidance to get out of this mess. More importantly, education is required, not just to students, but to family members so that they can impart proper guidance. In addition to that, there should be individual effort to acquire additional skills.
parijanam 