Are you in your sense(s) ???

Frankly, this blog-post may seem like a preaching lecture, but beleive me, it's all truth. And it all started with an incident in my class 8.

My dad, visionary that he is, planned me to buy me a computer. But before that, he told me, that I will have to learn a few "worthy' things about computers. Not only the computer games, he smiled. So I used to go to one my cousins - a distant relation - who was a school computer teacher at that time. He taught me computers at his home, while his father ( a wise man, retired army officer) taught me other valuable things sometimes, while I waited for his son to return from the school.

This post is about one thing he told me once.

One day, it was a hot summer afternoon, and the electricity was on a hike (usual story). So the computer was not running, but yes, we had a sole ceiling fan running ( on the inverter). We both (the uncle and me) were sitting, sipping nimbu paani. He was, as usual, giving me little talks about the ways of learning, and ways of life. Maybe I didn't understand his talks at that time, so i just nodded my head all the time.

The talk turned around to 'how can we learn or retain any thing the best, the fastest, and for the longest period time'. And what he said, are the Golden Words that i remembered yesterday. He said, "Are in your senses when you are trying to learn anything?" I was doubtful as to what he meant. He explained, that whatever we want to learn fastest, and whatever we want to retain longest, we should apply all our five senses to learn that. Feel it, smell it, taste it, listen (or talk) about it, see it.

Maybe I myself haven't applied it most of the time, but whenever I applied it, it was 101% succesful. I think thats why we never forget the places of scenic beauty like the hills or the seas, coz all the five senses are working there. I will end the post, with a hope that anyone reading this, gives it a thought.

And ya, Don't ask stupid questions like "how can I taste my books !?!" Just think about how can you relate things to your senses. How can you relate your learning to your sight, to your touch, to your taste, etc.

P.S. : Kaash ye baat 8th mein apply karna shuru kar deta. But better late than never! hehehe.....