Chowrangi

Are you a career driven person? Are you willing to spend extra time out of your normal routine to learn new things and to polish the existing ones? Not exactly insanely ambitious, but energetically motivated enough to advance your learning by exploring things at your own?

In the dynamic field like Information Technology (IT), this is imperative. By keeping in mind the fast and rapid technology changes, the ever-changing job landscape, the fierce cut throat competition and the dearth of quality, its hard to self-advance oneself.

No doubt about the reality that there should be a motivational element to drive you on alien paths. But equally important is the availability of pleasant helping material. I have often found that whenever I get a cool technical book or an idyllic technical manual or a witty tutorial or anything pleasurable in my course of learning, my learning curve, no matter how steep, seems to be smooth, placid and fluid.

But more often than not, unfortunately, I have found the helping material very much boring, colorless, odorless, impersonal and very out of the way. It discourages the learning process and makes it more bland and painful. It does exactly opposite to what it really means to do. It makes learning a curse rather than a blessing.

Other posts by Commoner

• Not So Grave - December 2nd, 2008
• Adil Najam: A Mumbaikar? - December 2nd, 2008
• Save Karachi - December 1st, 2008
• Belligerency Won't Take us Anywhere - December 1st, 2008
• Careless Approach by Nuclear India - November 30th, 2008
• Indo-Pak Tension - November 30th, 2008
• India Should Solve Its Own Problems - November 29th, 2008
• Implicating ISI in Mumbai Attacks - November 29th, 2008
• Sure Disaster - November 28th, 2008
• NRO for Increasing Marks of Lucky Daughter - November 28th, 2008