The truth about the normal curve
'The worlds a normal curve', said Rooshiji, 'and you can't really fight it....'. There are 5% people at one end - the achievers, the doers, the artists, the scientists...and then there are the other 5% at the other end - the criminals, the problem kids....and the middle 90% who spend all their lives just talking about the two tails, doing little themselves.....
On the eve of Unmaad, the reason I remember this statment is coz about 5% or 20 odd of us (a little more than that) form the culcom - the cultural committee here, essentially responsible for doing the fest......
Add a few more who are working almost as hard as culcom if not more.......
and then there is the huge tail - this group of people ready to put culcom right on the throne, or to condemn it forever....
Its like that cricket match, where the audiance, all it does is hoot and cheer.....its the players who concentrate on the game.....and try to ignore the audiance when it gets painful.....
I realise that I speak here from a belief that being in that 5% tail is something superior, and implying that I am there....maybe I am not .....maybe I am not a player in the match (just a commentator mebbe! :)
But then the question is - is this how we are going to be as a race forever? Whatever the progress, the shape stays unchanged....destiny? choice? Can't say.....perhaps, as long as people conciously choose where they wanna be on that curve, there is nothing to complain....only that the choice should be fully concious ..... and with full awareness, that each one of us has a choice to be anywhere on that curve.....
Personally I think I wanna be right at the tip of the tail.....at a level in my field where anything new I do is new to humanity....like that scientist who invents and thats the first time a human mind ever thought of that....like the man stepping on the moon - a small step for yourself is a giant leap for yourkind....
And maybe that solves the normal curve riddle too.....if each one of us does this in what we are best at - there may be a normal curve for a given field - but for each, there will be different people at a tip....imagine a three dimensional distribution where everyone is at the tip in some plane or the other......that perhaps is the answer to the truth of the normabl curve.....
On the eve of Unmaad, the reason I remember this statment is coz about 5% or 20 odd of us (a little more than that) form the culcom - the cultural committee here, essentially responsible for doing the fest......
Add a few more who are working almost as hard as culcom if not more.......
and then there is the huge tail - this group of people ready to put culcom right on the throne, or to condemn it forever....
Its like that cricket match, where the audiance, all it does is hoot and cheer.....its the players who concentrate on the game.....and try to ignore the audiance when it gets painful.....
I realise that I speak here from a belief that being in that 5% tail is something superior, and implying that I am there....maybe I am not .....maybe I am not a player in the match (just a commentator mebbe! :)
But then the question is - is this how we are going to be as a race forever? Whatever the progress, the shape stays unchanged....destiny? choice? Can't say.....perhaps, as long as people conciously choose where they wanna be on that curve, there is nothing to complain....only that the choice should be fully concious ..... and with full awareness, that each one of us has a choice to be anywhere on that curve.....
Personally I think I wanna be right at the tip of the tail.....at a level in my field where anything new I do is new to humanity....like that scientist who invents and thats the first time a human mind ever thought of that....like the man stepping on the moon - a small step for yourself is a giant leap for yourkind....
And maybe that solves the normal curve riddle too.....if each one of us does this in what we are best at - there may be a normal curve for a given field - but for each, there will be different people at a tip....imagine a three dimensional distribution where everyone is at the tip in some plane or the other......that perhaps is the answer to the truth of the normabl curve.....
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