1. In large countries like India, tradition is invested with sanctity, because there is a tendency to believe that the way things are or have been done is the best way to do it, and tradition is invoked to shoot down creative ideas and bold initiatives.
2. What is so obviously stupid to an outsider is justified as our way of doing things, which is more harmful to us than to anyone else, because people with ideas will either go elsewhere or settle for the accustomed ritual and destroy themselves.
3. It is one thing to go through a routine with the awareness that you are using it to regulate your time, but it is quite another thing to be trapped in routine and have one's life controlled by it.
4. Routine can so thoroughly take over our lives that we even get tired at a particular time of day as a matter of mental habit, but watching this predictibility in others could help alert us before we become robots ourselves.
5. In a fast changing world, rigidity of habit and mind can be unhelpful, and flexible is of the essence, because rigidity tends to store up tensions when our schedule is upset, and it also leaves us unprepared mentally to handle changes and emergencies.
2. What is so obviously stupid to an outsider is justified as our way of doing things, which is more harmful to us than to anyone else, because people with ideas will either go elsewhere or settle for the accustomed ritual and destroy themselves.
3. It is one thing to go through a routine with the awareness that you are using it to regulate your time, but it is quite another thing to be trapped in routine and have one's life controlled by it.
4. Routine can so thoroughly take over our lives that we even get tired at a particular time of day as a matter of mental habit, but watching this predictibility in others could help alert us before we become robots ourselves.
5. In a fast changing world, rigidity of habit and mind can be unhelpful, and flexible is of the essence, because rigidity tends to store up tensions when our schedule is upset, and it also leaves us unprepared mentally to handle changes and emergencies.