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There's this article in "The Week" by Patricia Cohen that i happened to come across recently. It was titled "Inaction vs action" . Now, as simple as that sounds i've got to admit one of main reasons that i started to read along was to find what exactly was the competition between action and inaction anyway! Inaction simply means a state of being inactive and action - you know.
Being opposites by convention, they do attract a fancy "VS" between 'em but pragmatically speaking inaction doesn't stand a chance with action as a competitor. Especially when in a problamatic situation. Confused!
Well, lets take an example. The penalty kick in a game of soccer. There's the striker and the goalie. Almost 90% of the goalie's leap to the exact opposite direction to the striker's attact eventually missing the chance. Now, thats action. The success rate of the striker is way higher than that of the goalie(for penalty kicks). What happens when the goalie stays in the centre and grabs the advantage of the 0.2-0.4 second of time taken by the ball to travel to him. I know thats humanly impossible to even think of taking a decision in the given modicum of time. But, But instead of jumping to the wrong direction and missing the goal he could as well take a try staying at the centre. Thats Inaction. ( okay folks, Chak de climax is not exactly what i'm talking about. We had the all powerful srk standing just right beside the captain girl who again could catch his signals so correctly. wonder! )
Hard to comprehend, yeah. And being a completly ignorant soccer player myself, i might be wrong with the technical aspects of penalty kicks. But, think about it taking no action in a situation your iffy about is a much safer bet than doing something and making no worth of it.
I do agree the latter has the benefit of judgement cause they have obviously taken an "action" in a troubled situation aganist the ones who perferred to stay still. And a typical social mind would appreciate the lad for trying something even though it did no good to anyone. Consider a wider aspect of the such situations , Business. We've seen loads of analysts who involve in decision making taking a wrong turn and failing. Penalty kicks are part of the game. But, Money matters. Given a problem, a tricky one in business, What does a normal man do ? He takes a decision, he has to. He tries to get a solution that will firstly make him look a smarty because he's got a plan unlike his quieter colleagues and secondly he always has an excuse for trying to attempt to solve the case . Does it solve the issue or not is secondary, surprisingly ! So, assume the decision goes wrong. Its got to cost a lot of money and loss to the organisation but nobody complains about the guy. "He ATLEAST tried" is all what you'll hear. But, the point is, the devastation could have been saved had he not chosen to take the sort of the decision where he is uncertain about the outcomes in the first place. People in core business and soccer players are those guys who really need to master the art of decision making. Also, Decision making has always been a popular lesson for budding professionals. But much less is talked about Inaction. Inaction - That's what people need sometimes. Its not a norm to always make a decision. Give it a break and use your chances wisely to chose between Inaction and action. So there you've, Inaction Vs Action! :-)
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Inaction - An interesting answer!
She writes...
There's this article in "The Week" by Patricia Cohen that i happened to come across recently. It was titled "Inaction vs action" . Now, as simple as that sounds i've got to admit one of main reasons that i started to read along was to find what exactly was the competition between action and inaction anyway! Inaction simply means a state of being inactive and action - you know.
Being opposites by convention, they do attract a fancy "VS" between 'em but pragmatically speaking inaction doesn't stand a chance with action as a competitor. Especially when in a problamatic situation. Confused!
Well, lets take an example. The penalty kick in a game of soccer. There's the striker and the goalie. Almost 90% of the goalie's leap to the exact opposite direction to the striker's attact eventually missing the chance. Now, thats action. The success rate of the striker is way higher than that of the goalie(for penalty kicks). What happens when the goalie stays in the centre and grabs the advantage of the 0.2-0.4 second of time taken by the ball to travel to him. I know thats humanly impossible to even think of taking a decision in the given modicum of time. But, But instead of jumping to the wrong direction and missing the goal he could as well take a try staying at the centre. Thats Inaction. ( okay folks, Chak de climax is not exactly what i'm talking about. We had the all powerful srk standing just right beside the captain girl who again could catch his signals so correctly. wonder! )
Hard to comprehend, yeah. And being a completly ignorant soccer player myself, i might be wrong with the technical aspects of penalty kicks. But, think about it taking no action in a situation your iffy about is a much safer bet than doing something and making no worth of it.
I do agree the latter has the benefit of judgement cause they have obviously taken an "action" in a troubled situation aganist the ones who perferred to stay still. And a typical social mind would appreciate the lad for trying something even though it did no good to anyone. Consider a wider aspect of the such situations , Business. We've seen loads of analysts who involve in decision making taking a wrong turn and failing. Penalty kicks are part of the game. But, Money matters. Given a problem, a tricky one in business, What does a normal man do ? He takes a decision, he has to. He tries to get a solution that will firstly make him look a smarty because he's got a plan unlike his quieter colleagues and secondly he always has an excuse for trying to attempt to solve the case . Does it solve the issue or not is secondary, surprisingly ! So, assume the decision goes wrong. Its got to cost a lot of money and loss to the organisation but nobody complains about the guy. "He ATLEAST tried" is all what you'll hear. But, the point is, the devastation could have been saved had he not chosen to take the sort of the decision where he is uncertain about the outcomes in the first place. People in core business and soccer players are those guys who really need to master the art of decision making. Also, Decision making has always been a popular lesson for budding professionals. But much less is talked about Inaction. Inaction - That's what people need sometimes. Its not a norm to always make a decision. Give it a break and use your chances wisely to chose between Inaction and action. So there you've, Inaction Vs Action! :-)
There's this article in "The Week" by Patricia Cohen that i happened to come across recently. It was titled "Inaction vs action" . Now, as simple as that sounds i've got to admit one of main reasons that i started to read along was to find what exactly was the competition between action and inaction anyway! Inaction simply means a state of being inactive and action - you know.
Being opposites by convention, they do attract a fancy "VS" between 'em but pragmatically speaking inaction doesn't stand a chance with action as a competitor. Especially when in a problamatic situation. Confused!
Well, lets take an example. The penalty kick in a game of soccer. There's the striker and the goalie. Almost 90% of the goalie's leap to the exact opposite direction to the striker's attact eventually missing the chance. Now, thats action. The success rate of the striker is way higher than that of the goalie(for penalty kicks). What happens when the goalie stays in the centre and grabs the advantage of the 0.2-0.4 second of time taken by the ball to travel to him. I know thats humanly impossible to even think of taking a decision in the given modicum of time. But, But instead of jumping to the wrong direction and missing the goal he could as well take a try staying at the centre. Thats Inaction. ( okay folks, Chak de climax is not exactly what i'm talking about. We had the all powerful srk standing just right beside the captain girl who again could catch his signals so correctly. wonder! )
Hard to comprehend, yeah. And being a completly ignorant soccer player myself, i might be wrong with the technical aspects of penalty kicks. But, think about it taking no action in a situation your iffy about is a much safer bet than doing something and making no worth of it.
I do agree the latter has the benefit of judgement cause they have obviously taken an "action" in a troubled situation aganist the ones who perferred to stay still. And a typical social mind would appreciate the lad for trying something even though it did no good to anyone. Consider a wider aspect of the such situations , Business. We've seen loads of analysts who involve in decision making taking a wrong turn and failing. Penalty kicks are part of the game. But, Money matters. Given a problem, a tricky one in business, What does a normal man do ? He takes a decision, he has to. He tries to get a solution that will firstly make him look a smarty because he's got a plan unlike his quieter colleagues and secondly he always has an excuse for trying to attempt to solve the case . Does it solve the issue or not is secondary, surprisingly ! So, assume the decision goes wrong. Its got to cost a lot of money and loss to the organisation but nobody complains about the guy. "He ATLEAST tried" is all what you'll hear. But, the point is, the devastation could have been saved had he not chosen to take the sort of the decision where he is uncertain about the outcomes in the first place. People in core business and soccer players are those guys who really need to master the art of decision making. Also, Decision making has always been a popular lesson for budding professionals. But much less is talked about Inaction. Inaction - That's what people need sometimes. Its not a norm to always make a decision. Give it a break and use your chances wisely to chose between Inaction and action. So there you've, Inaction Vs Action! :-)
2 comments on "Inaction - An interesting answer!"
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an interesting post..
dunno about the decision making, but when it comes to soccer, aint being inactive a decision too??
and yeah, the goalies commit themselves to jumping to one side because of the speed and angles that the strikers generate, which makes it impossible to stop from a state of inaction...
and goin by physics, being in an inertia of movement makes the reaction time quicker than when in an inertia of rest! -
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Yea, thats wat i said... humanly impossible.. but its worth a try... To say the least.. to me the idea sounds interesting... And going by your response,i guess you might be a soccer player urself.. Try this sometime n lemme know the results k ? :-)
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an interesting post..
dunno about the decision making, but when it comes to soccer, aint being inactive a decision too??
and yeah, the goalies commit themselves to jumping to one side because of the speed and angles that the strikers generate, which makes it impossible to stop from a state of inaction...
and goin by physics, being in an inertia of movement makes the reaction time quicker than when in an inertia of rest!
Yea, thats wat i said... humanly impossible.. but its worth a try... To say the least.. to me the idea sounds interesting... And going by your response,i guess you might be a soccer player urself.. Try this sometime n lemme know the results k ? :-)
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