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Learning How to Think!!!!

Atanu Dey writes: "I think that at a minimum, an educational system must teach people how to think". After reading that I started wondering whether I really know the process of thinking and realized that I really do not know how to do it effectively. I was trying to figure out what to do to learn it and tried to talk to a couple of friends but did not gain much insight into that.

Lately I have been working on preparing essays to apply for Ivy League MBA colleges like harvard, stanford etc. I worked on drafts of a couple of essays and Swapna helped me out a little bit in framing them properly. Last week I asked a long time friend Uday Bhaskar aka Venkata Challagulla to help me out to refine them. Uday has 3 masters and doing his phd now, not a bad bet to rely upon. I met him yesterday evening at starbucks and showed him the essay questions and my answers. He saw the first question and answer and told me that what I wrote there as a complete essay is actually the premise for the essay. He explained that I need to write what kind of situations and thinking process forced me to do such things and what I learnt from each of those experiences. There you go I got my first lesson of 'How to think?'. I was so happy that I got this info from a dear friend of mine. After that we sat on the essay and in about 3 hours we condensed the most of the essay into three sentenses. By that time we were exhausted and we took a hour dinner break and after sat for another 3 hours and completed the main draft of the essay. The evening gave a new insight into the process of thinking. I promised myself to bug Uday every weekend and prepare essay on various subjects and post them on my blog. When I told him about that, he agreed to work with me. I am on the row now, soon I am going to emerge as a guy who knows the brasstracks of 'How to think?', I am completely excited about what is happenning. Wish me luck.