‘Why’ is a lost effort for many
by Miki Saxon
There’s a lot of finger pointing in the news these days, right along with every flavor of ‘expert’ pontificating on why the current mess happened and what needs to change.
But there’s not nearly enough talk about the ‘why’ of those changes.
But then, why should the ‘why’ of change be any different than all the other ‘whys’ that people sidestep?
Identifying, thinking about and understanding ‘why’ takes effort; it takes thought.
People are so wired and so busy that thinking is fast becoming a lost art.
To start with, it takes a certain amount of quiet and quiet is almost nonexistant. And if there is quiet, then people fill it with cell calls and i-Pods.
And why bother when one can google dozens of sources, get their thinking, mash it up and regurgitate it as one’s own smarts.
Then the ‘why’ can be buried under pop language and previous sound bites that have the added benefit of making the speaker sound smarter than he is.
So remember! Stop. Listen. Think.
