Uncommon Common Sense from History

History is full of case studies related to evaluation of common sense starting with Hummarabi code to the present day Machine Learning. However, there are some notable cases, which have deep influence on me. 

The earliest documented interrogation into common sense is from Socrates Questioning. One of student, Plato documented this method where his teacher would assume a role of an ignorant mindset, in order to compel the student to assume the highest level of knowledge, through 

1. Acknowledge Contradictions
2. Recreate Inaccurate or unfinished ideas
3. Critically determine necessary thoughts

This interrogative technique leads to following 2 important concepts

1. Basic Knowledge = Fundamental Concepts + Principles + Theory + Issues + Problem 
2. Attaining Knowledge = Systematic + Disciplined + Deep Evaluation

When it comes to common sense, it is hard to miss out on Thomas Paine. He wrote 2 very interesting pamphlets in 1770s - the Common Sense and the American Crisis. Almost all his writings are captivating and as historian Greene once said - "Fundamentally, we are all children of Paine" 

Indeed the late 17th century provided one more important relevance from Benjamin Franklin, who developed - "Balance sheet of Decisions" which is crude form of "Risk Probability Matrix", which we use frequently in consulting.

Common sense has been applied to even most obscure subjects such as sociology, which is one of my favorite subjects. It is really a pleasure to read Emile Durkheim, Mead, Talcot Parson etc and observe how they deduced common sense on complex social interactions. The same concepts have been illustrated in "Art of War" by Sun Tsu in study of warfare, which has deeply influenced the Chinese thought process over the ages.

How much time will I take to learn Chinese ?

This question struk me very hard as the only opinion I recieved from most of the people is that - " Chinese is hard and Learnign Chinese is more harder"

But then I came across one opinion of an expat who learned chinese....aka Mandarin

".........
I speak Mandarin quite fluently and am not too bad at Cantonese. The former is easier. The pronunciation of Mandarin sounds is not difficult. The tones take more work. Is is important to realize that even English is tonal, except that tones are used for emphasis in the sentence rather than to indicate meaning in words. As long as you ignore any and all grammatical explanations of Chinese and just work on listening and reading and getting used to the structure of the language, it is not too difficult except for one obstacle, the amount of time required to learn characters. There you need a system (I had one) and you need to work at it every day..even one day off it and you slide back. It took me 8 months full time to learn the language, be able to read novels, and translate newspapers in both directions.
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I was really inspired by his story of his track to learn chinese.........8 months to fluency is not a big deal buddy ......and I am really wiling to invest that much of time...

Now the next question is where to learn chinese from ...........i m currently exploring a lot of options

1. Some sources on net - I found them to be misleading.........
2. some native speaker - hard to find them in new delhi
3. some class room course - how to evaluate which one to join..........


albeit, on thing, I learned abt chinese is that its a phonetic based language......
meanings change with the emphasis of syllables........

so, I finally started a bit ..........so lets see if I can get close inch by inch.............

"WO" - means "I" in mandarin but the same can change with emphasis......

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Extensive Experience of 7 years
Diverse Experience in various domains – Projects, Operation, Marketing, Retailing


Weakness

Opportunities

Doing internship in India and China
China Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
(PEKING), Beijing
• • Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong
• China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai
India • Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA),
Ahmedabad
• Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB), Bangalore
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad

Singapore • Nanyang Business School (NBS), Singapore
• National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Leveraging CFP