Go Beyond Fixing Bugs
Putting excess conditions affects wellbeing

Putting conditions in the evaluation of a stimulus to give a certain response may make us more mature but we should understand that excess of it can cause us to be stressed out. For instance, consider the program below:

function process_stimulus(input_Msg) { person_religion = get_Person_Religion() if(person_religion == ‘Christian’) { person_economic_status = get_Economic_Status() if(person_economic_status == ‘Rich’) { person_status = get_Person_Status() if(person_status == ‘Married’) { response = process_Input(input_Msg) return response } } } }

In the above program, ‘process_stimulus’ is the function that evaluates a response based on the input_Msg. The input_Msg can be as simple as “a smile from the other person”. A person who puts in a lot of conditions in evaluating a response may first try to get the religion of the other person. Then he may decipher the economic status and the marital status of the person and only then process the actual input. His response may be a frown or a slight smile based on the conditions he has evaluated. Thus, there is a lot of extra processing happening in the mind of the person and the outcome may not actually be good either.

A person with a lot of conditions in the evaluation of a response may need to reprogram his mind. He needs to go through the existing program and remove unnecessary conditions and replace them with a simple one. For instance, the previous program may be replaced by the below program:

function process_stimulus(input_Msg) { gender = get_Person_Gender() if(gender == ‘Female’) { response = process_Input(input_Msg) return response } }

In the above program, the person does not evaluate his response based on earlier conditions like religion, economic status, etc of the other person. He just considers if the other person is ‘Male’ or ‘Female’ and gives back an appropriate response. For instance, if the input_Msg (an input to function process_stimulus) is a smile from the other person then based on whether the other person is a male or female, his response may vary. If the other person is a male then he may give a response of a smile along with the ‘How are you doing?’ statement. While if the other person is a female then he may give a big smile but skip making any comment.
['Utpal Kumar']
['Life Lessons', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Self Improvement', 'Technology']