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Straight talk never works in the outside world. Once people know your intention, they change their plan according to that. To make them safe.
In India until now, High Schools get to grade all students. Based on their semester performance, tutorials, practical. While students are in the ninth standard or below it. But this scenario changed in the tenth standard. The District board arrange exams for the tenth standard and grade their performance according to written exams. And for that purpose, you don't need to complete any assignments.
In January 2006 winter was quite good, we were having morning class due to exams next month. The geography teacher was checking everyone's notebook for all academic assignments. And I knew in tenth class, assignments do not count. My friend Sushant completed half of the assignments only. Worried what will happen to him. To cool him down I told, "I have not completed a single assignment and don't have a separate notebook". Later geography teacher was asking him questions after questions due to his lack of work. And he shouted, "Vishvaraj still not assigned separate notebook for the subject."
WTF??
Lots of drama followed later...
In college days, I had many friends. And quite popular due to technical knowledge. Many friends used to discuss with me about computer stuff. I got in contact with many girls and boys in college. And became fond of a girl. We used to talk. So one day I told her, "I do like her and would like to go out to tea or something". She did not reply properly and started telling other reasons. . .
I was out of mind for some time. And not able to understand what the hell happening??
It took me a long time to understand that telling people straight and direct, almost never works. May be working in some rare cases.
But then we lose the power of choice. Fate gets to decide it(another superstition). Maybe we fated to be not together.
Let me tell you a story about one startup. There are two companies involved one small startup and a big parent company. Imagine a small startup name is BB and the parent company name is AA. Company AA has many employees, they used to do extra work with assigned tasks. In the company, BB has no employees. AA suggested that they should get a specialized employee. BB did that.
AA started to assign them to work more like generalized, which is out of their scope. BB with its employee started to complain about AA. AA's process and managing were not as it framed to employees. And AA started getting lots of issues.
BB wants to have a systematic process with long-term goals. AA started to feel insecure. AA promised that they will look and some activities. When the time came they did not allow BB decision-making in many fields.
Ops...
Sometimes things do not work for others as they worked with you. Emotions and feelings make a high impact on our decision-making. When we tell someone that they are not good at that and doing it wrong. Instead of understanding it almost every time the ego comes in. Then that someone gets offended. And try to do something that will make them right and others wrong.
My project guide in post-graduation used to say that I talk too much. And should learn to keep the mouth shut. But that never works.
Like telling children, Fire will hurt you and burn some parts of the skin. Never works with children. But getting hand burned a little bit in the fire does work. And children start taking care of themselves from fire.
The hard way of learning . . .
