Now, That's why Old people tend to be good at teaching . . . :)

After writing too many serious topics, this is rare times I guess, I am writing so lousily and just simply expressing one awesome moment in day to day life . . .

A humped back, a bald head, a stick in hand, and a great experience in life is all you need to figure out somethings better.

I had a very interesting observation today, when I was watching a video lecture of an MIT professor Gilbert Strang. Somehow, we both have one thing in similar, tendency to remember less. But well, he has it because of age. These days I am also teaching some students mathematics at a small scale, and that's why it get's even interesting to relate teaching methods.

Now this very respected and admired professor, Prof. Gilbert Strang, has one great thing, he has age, which stops him from doing heavy calculations and remembering too much stuff, and this makes him invent new and new ways of expressing fundamentals of stuff. First he has very deep understanding of subject which is natural advantage. But more than that,he knows art of simplifying things and making it memory efficient and highly prioritized data in terms of high stress on important concepts and not too much meddling around. He enjoys what he does, because he has simplified things so much so for himself. I have seen class 6,7,8 books, and I wonder how students figure out the core and jist of concepts. But this old gentlemen has developed such a wonderful quality in teaching, maybe by choice or age, but it is just so much lovable.
And by the way, if you are scare of Linear Algebra, his video lectures will bring rains of relief to you. I fear that you might start liking it too :)

So, this was one thing which I learned, but I would end this article with rather a light but an inspiring note. I was just changing channels on TV, and suddenly, my remote's button stuck on AAJ-TAK, and there was some interview of SRK about Chennai Express. Now, he was asked about how do you choose films and all bla bla bla gossop by an experienced reporter. He answered, after being in film industry for 22 years, working 12-15 hrs a day, money definitely doesn't mean much, all is routine, but what keeps me running, are the small small exciting moments, like facing first shot of film and being with some friends in industry, . . .  otherwise, I can't keep up the beat.

When you have everything, and when you are bored of everything you wished come true, the little and the closer things keep you moving, and big big things mean even lesser and lesser and just become an instrument of keeping stuff going.

take care,
and have a great weekend :)