Bad Sectors!

The early users of the ‘floppy-disk’ would remember, how they struggled to get a data transferred from one stand alone PC to another!
The retrieval was almost a torturous experience!
The data in the floppy invariably ‘chooses’ the only available ‘bad-sector’ to get itself lodged into!
And when we were ourselves quite new to floppy disks, no amount of care, packing during transit seemed to suffice to ensure safe transit of floppy. The error messages were also quite confusing, with jargon like “lost chains, clusters… ?” There was that ‘yes’ or ‘no’ option, which we were not sure how to answer! ‘All we want is that stupid file data, and what are we going to do with chains, clusters and all that scrap-iron-junk-garbage?’ was the thought!

Even the ‘Good students’ of earlier classes find it puzzling, when it comes to reproducing a quality answer in exams of higher classes, however hard they mug, revise etc…
Those who get easily discouraged, become early ‘drop-outs’ from that ‘above average’ slots. Then it is all ‘chains and clusters’ lost! Though a bit late, it does occur to the ‘previously-above-average’ students that they failed to grasp the ‘essence’ of the subject which was what the examiner was trying to look for, while awarding the ‘extra’ marks for an above-average-answer.

This ‘essence’ is essentially the basic concept of the subject itself, which keeps hovering over the entire subject like that spy satellite that keeps a perpetual ‘watch’ over a large continent, inconspicuously. In law, we call it ‘Jurisprudence’. At higher level of studies, it is the ‘essential’ grasp of the essence of the theme, theory, subject that decides the eligibility for doctorial qualifications! That is why the ‘treatment’ of the theme in a thesis fetches results even when no big tangible result is churned out. When it comes to hard, cold, and precision oriented logical subjects like Chartered / Cost accountancy, the ‘abstract’ theme is more elusive than ever, which explains for the very small percentage of even just pass rates(To briefly illustrate with a simple example, an alert ‘cost-expert’ would look into the possibility of the ‘process of storing inventories’ as a money spinner, instead of restricting oneself to the traditional ‘expenditure-item’ view while tackling it ‘cost-consciously’)!

In fields like Banking, finance etc, experience makes up to a large extent for lack of theoretical grasp, and that explains for the phenomenal rise of people with low academic profile. They get that non-verbal-form of the abstract essence directly into them through sheer experience.

The question itself was not very clear, yet, I made an attempt to guess, and then dealt with the answer, hoping, it would help yet others at least who could not ‘coin’ a question thus.

I am tempted to leave a ‘chain & cluster’ in mentioning here that, usually it is more of girl children who ‘drop-out’ of the above-average-slot when they go for higher studies, for a very ‘natural’ reason!
Regards,
Psn(26th December, 2009)
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091225160940AAI5mSu

The question:
What things that are important but you may not remember?
i idea of things that are important but you may not always remeber plz i need help on science


My answer:
It is the concept that does not get stored into the memory, and / or it does not get recalled in times of need, as apart from the 'text' or technical portions (informative aspect)....
If this is the query,
then the answer you seek is for "why is it that something we already know to be important when we store in memory, does not get recollected/recalled"......

The reason could be, when we pre-conclude something to be very important (saying to self "This, I should take extra care to remember"), part of our attention (or focus of mind) gets diverted towards the anxiety/worry about remembering it, and the process of image-storage is not sharp and clear! When it comes to a 'concept', please see, already 'a concept ' is an abstract thing, and if the mind is not clearly focused while we try to store it, the memory will have something like 'bad-sectors-in-a-computer-had-disk' and the data retrieved from that memory location will not be clear, even if we press the 'refresh' button any number of times! Nothing prevents us from re-storing it any number of times! The effort is wasted if we do not "set-the-conditions" of storage properly! These conditions are basically from inside us, and outside conditions can support and supplement, only if needed!
Any further elaboration here, would only distract the focusing of mind, and hence dilute the purpose...
So, I conclude the answer here leaving it open for exploration by self.
Thanks for this question.