Touch of socialism

Graduates of engineering studies are nowadays eyeing at starting their own companies in other words wishing to become entrepreneurs. This is a good sign which will contribute towards nation building. But for the business to succeed what do you think is the most essential ingredient? Of course, the first option that comes strikingly forward is the "love for money". This quality is the most important because without a want for money, you can never make a successful business. Fine, but to keep the business surging ahead there is yet another feature that needs to be embedded in the business process. Guess what? Its socialism or love for customers!!


This may sound a bit too excessive for the one who wishes to do a lucrative business. Believe me, without loving your customers you can never bring improvements in your business. Trade must be customer centric, whatever changes you bring to your business see to that it benefits your customers ultimately. Care for customers can be brought into products that you deliver by maintaining good quality raw materials and ensuring long term usage. This quality applies to both software and manufacturing industry products. Retaining your customers is also possible only when your customers realize that you care for them.


World famous industries like Reliance, Microsoft, Apple, General Electrical, Ford all have succeeded only after realizing what their customers want and producing the products that conform to customer satisfaction. So, whenever you plan a change for your business process first study customer reaction to your existing process and try to predict the effects of customers that would result from the change you plan to bring in your business. No product, that is technically precocious, but less customer friendly manages to bring valuable returns for your business. So, young tycoons realize this golden trick, I might call it, that caring for your customers is the prime virtue that will keep your business rolling for many a years.

Animated Learning

The topic by itself is too interesting to discuss. Some of us are actually following it, for others here is this post which throws light on this beautiful form of learning. Every subject in the educational field has got its own domain of knowledge. The knowledge of each subject is inculcated into student's mind through books, audio clips and video strips. But, in our country education is mostly text oriented with exception on some parts where audio and video content may be used.



Plunging into the topic, animating what you learn is nothing but remembering what you read or hear as a sequence of events. When you study some complex text, say about psychology of human beings, it would be very hard to remember the text as such and may lead to easy deletion from memory. On the contrary, if the psychology note describes different characteristics of humans and if the student imagines these features in terms of pictures of human faces showing similar characteristics then it would never be forgotten. Similar justification applies all science subjects like Physics, which of course requires lot of imagination, Biology, Chemistry and Math.


Engineering could also be made so enthusiastic if one studies everything in correspondence to real world happenings. A good example of one such methodology is the object oriented programming in computer science, wherein the real world objects are converted into logical objects into the system. Such is the educational process and it would be highly successful with much more animation being done in remembering things. Animated learning also greatly helps in remembering what you hear for a longer period than just remembering things as such, particularly when the listening period is short and the content you hear is complex. Competitive exams that have listening skills test how accurate the students are in recollecting what they hear. Under these circumstances it is better to form still images of what we hear and believe me this surely helps you score better than taking notes of what you hear! So, animated learning is a magical tool that helps you learn better, faster and more importantly retain whatever you learn for longer time!!

Emotional Needs

This post is dedicated to all those people who have been wistful in their early childhood for want of emotional comfort. Emotional need, like any other needs like material and physical is a vital entity in shaping a child's future. A child under the watchful eyes of a strict father grows out to be an obedient, calm and a being with no love for socialism. Being strict on the parent's part is good unless it doesn't affect the child's emotional balance. A child in its early stages looks out for comforting gestures from his/her parents. The emotional gesture will help in creating a confidence in the kid's mind that there is someone who will support him/her in all endeavors.

Satisfying a child's emotional needs include talking to him in a friendly manner, taking time in listening to his problems and giving him advices that boost his morale rather than tarnish his confidence. Bringing up a child on purely a academic note will make him handicapped on other spheres of life which include moving with society and facing different challenges. Criticizing a child too much would too affect his emotions leading to a inferiority complex. Guidance to children must be such that the child must feel that he/she must do what his parents say out of love, not by force or through intimidation. Threatening a child with harsh punishments will help parents get the things done by the child, but the results will be poor and also this will only be transient. Though I am too young to comment on this aspect, this post is no literary script but a result of careful observation and analysis.