Conflicting priorities break the pace of common prosperity.
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Together, we grow; otherwise, we suffer.
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The clash of priorities is a prominent part of human behavior. It happens in a family, organisation, institution, society, informal meetings, planning, execution, and truly in all walks of living and working together and even globally. The glaring example is the horror of climate change at present.
Since my childhood, I have witnessed divergent priorities in schools, playgrounds, food and garment preferences, friendship, programmes for change, and so on. All are great stories, but one thing is common: a lack of straight-forwardness in achieving the goals,in the midst of a superiority complex, vested interests, win-lose math, likes and dislikes.
Divergent views on an issue support growth when they conclude with some common points. At times, the vision of a few people has been found to be more successful than that of the majority in the group. So, good decisions are possible only when discussions are based on possibilities, not problems and unproven theories of the past.
My experience suggests that focusing on purposes like education, skill formation, digital orientation, or higher studies has given adequate rewards, but only when there is no excessive attention to living spaces, outer conditions, gruopism, attire, senseless routines, or heavy reliance on connections and culture.
For a decade, I have been working on promoting a reading culture. It is not happening. I ask people to upgrade their skills periodically, but there are hardly any takers of my counselling. I am suggesting the value of soft skills in all domains; people are concentrating only on hard skills. People are not agreeing to learn more languages. People are deeply eager for financial soundness and forwardness, ignoring sharing and caring aptitude. There are people complaining about everything, though they are blessed on many counts. The majority are unaware of their own strengths and under the influence of imposter syndrome. Some are full of doubts in all matters they encounter.
It does not mean to say that I am right and they are wrong. I am not judgmental on any issue, but I am assessing the situation as deeply as possible.
Conflicting priorities are not absurd, but allowing them to block the speed of growth cannot be acknowledged.
Finding some common threads in a sea of differences in priorities is not tough, but all participants must come out of their own nests of limited thinking and biassed interpretation and listen to all sorts of pros and cons, and then common threads are not hard to segregate.
Some more points to ponder in this context are:
● A little sacrifice seems to be a catalyst for growth in many instances.
● Always remember, we are not always right in our approaches, and our opinions are not written on stones.
● Prejudices determine our preferences, which are most likely to be unsound and lacerated. We must examine these aspects to clear the path of progress.
● Our weaknesses are not permanent. They can be improved. When we are afraid of floods, we learn to swim to meet the emergency. Likewise, we must overcome our deficiencies one by one and turn them into tools to ensure growth.
● When playing victim theory is our priority, it invariably leads to defeat and downsizing.
● When there is no visualisation, the paths to prosperity are always blurred.
● Ideas are spontaneous phenomena. They come out only after deliberating on some conflicting issues with openness and searching for higher-level facts.
● Universal laws show the path of progress. Clashing with higher orders of nature are the sources of our falling down in any sphere.
● We do micromanagement (things in our control) wherever we are. When it is done fairly, we get favourable results.
Conflicting views are the circumstances. The components of the scenario are varied but rarely smooth. We have to put things together in order to serve common purposes.
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Final words to take:
Concurrence happens in the chaos when we chase common purposes.