Dont get bogged by the name. Its a simple approach - The Metro Washbasin tap approach.
The washbasin tap in my new office has been irritating me for a while now. It has sensors and when you get your hands around the tap...it senses movement and then automatically dispenses water. At least that is what it is meant to do. Its been over a month in office now and I find the sensors moody...they just wouldnt sense my hand movement...even if I just give the tap a pat near the sensor...no water.
But I am also the experimentative types...I have expertise in closing(read turning off) taps (read tooti) which no normal person can close. You just need to give the tap a vertical push downwards and simultaneously rotate the knob and turn it off. (I didnt want this traditional knowledge/secret to go with me to the grave...so sharing it here).
But this being an electronic type...my prior experience with mechanical taps was no help. Also, had better sensor taps at my previous office.
But, now I have found the way to make it work. If at first it doesnt work despite the pat....just move your hand back a good one feet away from the tap...and straighten up (as if you are not interested in the tap)...and then...again put your hand at the sensors...and magic...it dispenses water.
I realised the same principle works at the metro station. If despite repeated attempts at the entry gate...trying different angles to touch the card/ticket on the scanner...it doesnt work...the gates dont open. All you have to do is take a step back....pause...(and pretend to the gate that you dont want to come in) ...and try again...and yes it works.
So, as I walked out of the loo...I started thinking..how true is this philosophy/approach in life. We keep on fighting with a situation...trying different ways to get out of it...and we keep fighting. Perhaps its good to just stop that...take a pause...step back (take a break) and then try. IT SHOULD WORK.
Well I think as I figured it out with the washbasin tap...I also figured that out in life. I am at the moment doing that in a relationship in life. And...things seem to be working out...though I think human beings are a little slower than taps in dispensing.
Before writing this entry, I just shared this approach with a colleague and she started sharing a similar or perhaps the same philosophy from Buddhism. The discussion later led on to another discussion on the concept of metaphysical hesitation...which great figures faced in life. Buddha after attaining nirvana hesitated if he should share the wisdom with people (or are people ready for it?)...he hesitated...but finally he did.
I think people are ready to understand this approach to life...No metaphysical hesitations!
But I am also the experimentative types...I have expertise in closing(read turning off) taps (read tooti) which no normal person can close. You just need to give the tap a vertical push downwards and simultaneously rotate the knob and turn it off. (I didnt want this traditional knowledge/secret to go with me to the grave...so sharing it here).
But this being an electronic type...my prior experience with mechanical taps was no help. Also, had better sensor taps at my previous office.
But, now I have found the way to make it work. If at first it doesnt work despite the pat....just move your hand back a good one feet away from the tap...and straighten up (as if you are not interested in the tap)...and then...again put your hand at the sensors...and magic...it dispenses water.
I realised the same principle works at the metro station. If despite repeated attempts at the entry gate...trying different angles to touch the card/ticket on the scanner...it doesnt work...the gates dont open. All you have to do is take a step back....pause...(and pretend to the gate that you dont want to come in) ...and try again...and yes it works.
So, as I walked out of the loo...I started thinking..how true is this philosophy/approach in life. We keep on fighting with a situation...trying different ways to get out of it...and we keep fighting. Perhaps its good to just stop that...take a pause...step back (take a break) and then try. IT SHOULD WORK.
Well I think as I figured it out with the washbasin tap...I also figured that out in life. I am at the moment doing that in a relationship in life. And...things seem to be working out...though I think human beings are a little slower than taps in dispensing.
Before writing this entry, I just shared this approach with a colleague and she started sharing a similar or perhaps the same philosophy from Buddhism. The discussion later led on to another discussion on the concept of metaphysical hesitation...which great figures faced in life. Buddha after attaining nirvana hesitated if he should share the wisdom with people (or are people ready for it?)...he hesitated...but finally he did.
I think people are ready to understand this approach to life...No metaphysical hesitations!
