Friday, January 20, 2012
I met a boy who was running a puncture shop. Btw, I love the creative spellings for puncture shop - puncher shop, pancher shop etc. He said he'd started working at 4, and was now 15. That makes it 11 years of work, and I guess he's put in the 10000 hours that the outliers' book talks about. He seemed pretty competent and earned about Rs. 320 for fixing 2 punctures in 1 wheel. That seemed a pretty decent "aamdani". So how did he learn his work - "mera bhai sikhaya, aur dimag rehne se koi bhi seekh sakta hai" was his cryptic answer...so that's that about his curriculum I guess. Learning by observation.
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Its interesting that the boy mentioned "dimag". What could he have meant? We need to closely observe how apprentice learning happens - is it by pure observation alone? How are mistakes dealt with? Is there ways in which some principles of mechanics or whatever conveyed?
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