You desire a 20*16 room and your architect thinks a 16*16 room is enough. One idea is not better than the other, but it is ‘what you want’ versus ‘what you get’. As an architect, is ‘what you want to give’ versus ‘what your client wants to take’. It is not about right and wrong, good and bad, better and best, but it’s all about compatibility and synergy. Whichever is suitable with the available space that can be implemented which should satisfy both the client and the customer. This article is completely an inspired one.
A square is as good as a circle. So when there is a square peg in a square hole and a round peg in a round hole, there is no issues. The issue is only when we try to fit a square peg in a round hole. What a toothpick can do a bulldozer cannot. Sometimes the best is not good enough. A sunflower is beautiful, but in a rose garden, it will be treated as a weed. This proves that even though the sunflower is beautiful it cannot fit in a rose garden for many reasons.
Bring a man who has worked in a system driven organisation into a developing organisation, and he will create a huge imbalance. Again, someone who is used to power, position and protocol can never feel comfortable in a flat organisational structure. Such people causes a lot of resignations and eventually they too will quit. There is no questioning the capability of these people, is just that round peg won’t fit in a square hole. With that we can’t judge them wrong.
We look for qualifications, experience, brilliance, skills and attitudes, performance background, age, sex etc. When we should actually be asking this question – “Is he compatible with the prevailing culture of my organisation?”. Because that is more important than qualifications, experience, brilliance etc. Even if he is uneducated, inexperienced, with zero brilliance all these will be fine if he had the compatible culture. The tendency to adjust and accept things and situation will help us reaching heights.
We look for looks, family and educational background, religion, community, when we should be actually asking this question, “will she be compatible with the family?” So what if he is working in an MNC, so what if he is highly educated,so what if he is 6’2, he wants a homemaker and you are highly career oriented. All other factors fail on this one compatibility. You are a connoisseur of good food and you get married to a woman who extends a pizza hut menu card everytime you speak of dinner.
Individual brilliance is very different from collective brilliance. True, the knight is more powerful than the pawn, but when you playing the white pieces, isn’t the white pawn a greater asset to you than a black knight? Even though pawn moves one step at a time, with the power it holds, it is even capable of destroying the king. You can get inputs from others, the way they think, the way they see etc. But it is you who’s going to decide your need, individual brilliance is the most important and effective one at that point of time.
Whatever you do, before thinking the right’s and wrong’s think if it would be compatible to you first. If it is compatible 1+1 could be 3 but if it is not compatible 1+1 would be 0. So invest a lot of time in thinking before getting into it. Once when you’re done with the decision, stick to it at any cost, never compromise nor sacrifice anything or for anyone. Rather than proving others prove yourself that the decisions whatever you take is and will be correct.
Wishing everyone a very happy and a safe diwali. Let the festival of light bring a lot of happiness and peace to you and your family.
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