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How to Improve Comprehension Skills

By hndeadmin • July 26, 2021 • Reading & Vocabulary Development • 1,852 views

What's the most efficient way to improve comprehension skills?

Look curiously beneath one level of virtualization.

How is this relevant? I will try to explain the with a simple example .

If your pipe under your washbasin was leaking, what would you do?

Call a plumber

Ask for help from people you can reach out to

Try to fix it yourself

Here the least expensive could be the third option but it takes skill to do a plumbing job correctly. One mistake, and the whole house will be filled with water. Then you have to do some disaster management.

When you are reading some stuff, please understand that knowledge is not equal or equivalent to understanding, especially understanding the real world problems and its fixes. You could never become an expert plumber just by reading books and getting all the possible knowledge.

So, be curious and look under the wash basin once a while. Check the leak and if the leak can be fixed with the help of a sealant or a simple tightening of a nut then try it out before calling the obvious help.

What happens in the long run is, you will start to question systems. You will ask yourself and others as why something works as it does or why not the way you imagined. Sometimes you have to be brave and look under the hood to see if there are some leaks or connections missing.

Only by looking beneath one layer or virtualization, which opens up the system from a black box to a system which is made of components, you would start thinking differently.

Don't stop thinking at the first sign of problem. Investigate the problem source beneath the initial layer. If you cannot fix it only then call for help. It also helps if you can observe the expert at work.

A fun fact, Sachin Tendulkar(arguably the best batsman in World cricket) used to discuss his every innings with his elder brother, Ajit Tendulkar till the day he retired. He used to discuss the mistakes made and how to improve upon that relentlessly for more than 20 years. On the day he retired he had the final discussion with his elder brother regarding the innings.

If this person, who is supposed to be the best in the world and all Cricket lovers would know what he is famous for, could be so curious and inquisitive about his every innings, then there is definitely a lesson for all of us to learn .