This has to be a golden era for any curious mind, and there is a meticulous reason for that. ‘Backrub’, later came to be known as ‘Google’ (Imagine if the name wasn't changed, Just ‘Backrub it dude!’), something that was a mere research project for the Stanford PhD students Larry and Sergey, turned out to be one of the most indispensable tools for anyone with a rather silly question like “is tiktok…”. These ingenious computer scientists have revolutionised the entire department of “research” field. Now, scholars don’t have to go through the strenuous task of cramming for hours inside the library and skim through -God knows- thousands of books to resolve their doubts and conflicts, it is all just a search button away now. It is so damn easy that learning cannot be thought of as a tiring task. No need for library cards, no need for confusing bookmarks and above all, no library dues! Everything is covered by Google.
Our generation in some ways perceives this utility for granted. We should be grateful for this luxury of information that is easily retrievable. Da Vinci would have yearned to live in this era of quick lookup of information. He had a very curious mind and often spends hours around people from other disciplines to resolve his queries. He was a keen observer, tries to connect dots with whatever knowledge he had access to. In his time it was simply lack of modern-day technology that acted as a barrier to cultivate a curious mind. What is our reason? Everything is pretty much free. The dot-com bubble has considerably helped in making the internet an everyday utility that almost all common man has it. There are no boundaries for us to not learn something in this age of information. We just have to be curious about everything and plunge in deep into the very working and try to understand things on a broad scale, connect the dots just like Da Vinci.
When learning something, ask yourself plenty questions (You guessed it right, you have to cultivate the curiosity). Our mind has a funny way to fool us into thinking that we understood something when in reality we were really mugging up the thing and have plenty of holes in our retained information. Which is why teaching someone is the best way to learn something. When we explain something to another person who has zero knowledge in that topic, we have to explain everything from scratch. And if we succeded in teaching that person fully and have been able to clear up his/her doubts and queries, it can be logically inferred that we have understood that very topic in depth and have the capability to reproduce the same effortlessly. And if we could not answer a specific query, we have found out the hole in our understanding which can be worked on. Coming back to my original point, we have to stop mugging up things. Everything definitely has some meaning and try to plunge into those meanings. Learn in a way that each information that we are trying to retain has a link to each other. We forget something halfway through whilst trying to remember something if the links are messed up.
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.” -Confucius
There is no need to stay a fool anymore. Just google it!
