<p>Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
A colleague of the great scientist James Watson remarked that Watson was always “lounging around, arguing about problems instead of doing experiments.” He concluded that “There is more than one way of doing good science.” It was Watson’s form of idleness, the scientist went on to say, that allowed him to solve “the greatest of all biological problems: the discovery of the structure of DNA.” It is a point worth remembering in a society overly concerned with efficiency.
Adapted from John C. Polanyi, “Understanding Discovery”
Assignment:
Do people accomplish more when they are allowed to do things in their own way? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>No one knows us better than ourselves. Its a matter of fact that when we do things in our own way, we accomplish more.</p>
<p>My experiences justify this statement in a vivid manner. Studying at high school means pressure to perform. And when you are in a country like India where some hardcore parents can't think beyond engineering, pressure to perform doubles. Here, students leave no stone unturned in the preparation for their exams. And same is for me. Many of my batch mates find physics really challenging. Yeah, it is. Many a times, when our instructor explains some difficult question, I find it rather confusing. But when I try doing it in my own way I understand better. I go to the depth of the topic and find the underlying principle. One answer leads me to the exploration of another. When I try the most difficult problems in my own way, I succeed.</p>
<p>In the book- Jonathan Livingston: A story, A seagull is made to learn how to fly. But he is never able to do it. As a result, he becomes a laughing stock of his fellow seagulls. He is disheartened. But one day he tries flying in his own manner. He falls, but then gets up. Again he falls, but he gets up. He listens no one but him selves. He devises his own way of flying. I n the end covers a large distance across an ocean, which no seagull could have done.</p>
<p>I strongly believe that when we our mind has no boundaries and is free of every master, except us; its accomplishment is beyond our thinking.</p>
<p>(yeah, i know this essay is short in length)</p>