One of the primary requirements to succeed in life these days is to have good interfaces. We need interfaces to interact with everyone from the people we work with to prospective employers, from our friends to our competition, salesmen to the road side beggar. So much that it becomes an effort to really remember what we feel and think truly.
Honesty has become a dangerous virtue. And it is in some way because we do not expect others to be honest in their dealings with us. Dishonesty has been taken for granted to such an extent that nothing ever is taken at face value anymore. From professional to personal, there is a factor of safety we have built into our judgment of other people. Take a job interview for instance. Two and two is five for the candidate and three for the interviewer if you are talking about experience or vice e versa when remuneration is the issue. And woe to the candidate who asks for just the salary he deserves. To be really free, we all need the freedom to be ourselves. Today we deny this freedom to those around us. We expect people to be perfect and in turn pretend to be perfect. The funny thing is that we know no one is. So wouldnt it make more sense to look for someone who is honest about his abilities?
There is a lot more to say. But I cant find the right words which will suit my interface here.
4 comments:
Congratulations.... for your 1st post
Hey Ajish....like I had rightly guessed you have the expression that your ideas need...interesting read...I think you should develop it further.
Hi Monica,
The appreciation is appreciated....Develop it further?....I could try....but the point is that I am not being me in that article....and that is precisely the point it wants to address....so it is deferred till such time that I find more courage to be honest....
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