Who said, we need to strictly follow prescribed methods only?( for solutions to any problems?)
Out of box thinking
Innovation
Creativity
Off/away_from,....the “beaten track”
All these (& “etc” items ) are called as “jugad” in desi slang 😜
I love it ( jugad). And when you “love” doing something, efforts remain un-noticed, and therefore no feeling like “tiresome” about the efforts.
My example :
I had heard of “lamp gazing” as a useful tool to improve “focus” (quality of focus and time-span)
A friend who decided to implicitly do whatever I suggested ( for self-improvement), was needed to be told of “some” technique to improve his focus(it hastens his rate of learning, ability to stay-focused, etc)
A jugad occured to me. 😜
Lamp is too cumbersome, and not good-looking when electricity has come🙏.
Why not something else? Who said “only a lamp, can help?”
I suggested the “glowing tip of an incense stick( agarbathi), and a dark room. Keep gazing at the glow, and relax, if eyes start watering” .....it was in 1979. He kept doing it. There was no formal request from me, to seek a feedback. I forgot about it.
Last week that friend wrote to me from 1500 kms away “ I am asking my grandson to-do, what you taught me in 1979. Gazing at the tiny glow of agarbathi, setting up pitch darkness around, till eyes shed water!”
I came to know, that it “worked”! Now, I can tell it to others. This “jugad” is an improvement over an earthen lamp of unelectrified era!😜. Better than a flickering flame, and cost-effective too!
Jugad concept, I drew( squeezed out) from a BOGUS story!
I don't even remember whether it was from Akbar-Birbal, or Tenaliraman stories? For sure, as court-jesters, their profession was too-hazarduous🙏
They were burdened to invent a “jugad“ on a daily_basis 😱
That story! ( it also….taught me the “use” of sense-of-discrimination and its a absence in the villain.😜)
Hero was asked by the king to face+win a warrior who was expert in one-to-one sword_fight, and had challenged SEVERAL kings, to bring a warrior, better at sword fight. He collected huge amounts as bet money, from many kings!
Our hero ( Birbal or Mr.TenaliRaman) was wise, but zero at swordsman_Ship….. death was imminent against this gambler. No life-insurance policies in those days😰😰😰🙏
Hero asked for a months time to “prepare”. Villain was given a 5-star home with food, etc.
Villain kept spying the hero stealthily, all the days.
15 days, nothing unusual. Villain grew impatient ( negative emotion, a deterrent, for intellect to “function” healthily! 😭)
16th day, villain noticed the hero creeping into a blacksmiths house, making some secret “deal”. A rich man, our_villain paid a hefty bribe to “find out” from that blacksmith. Hero hard ordered for a 10 feet long scabbard (in which a sword is kept , and it preserves the sharpness of the sword)
Villain lost no time, in ordering a 15 feet long scabbard and a sword of matching_length👍. He paid 5 times the cost. Metal quality, tensile strength etc….Villain knew better, to specify🙏👍
On the appointed day.
Entire audience stared at both 😳😳😳
Long scabbard! Surely, death is imminent for the loser!
Timer gave the signal!
Hero wasn't in a hurry to “draw” out his sword.
Villain struggled to draw his sword. His arm was not long enough to draw his 14 feet long sword COMPLETELY out of the scabbard. 🤣🤣🤣
Hero drew out his “normal” sword. ( only the scabbard was 10 feet long. Deceptively long. That sword was old one. Correct size. Came out easily👍)
Villain “saw” DEFEAT even before the fight began.
End of the story( or joke….whatever)
Jugadi yours,
psn(13 jan 2025)
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