Driving Style Talks about our Behavior, More often the Responsibility! Beyond, Life Lessons too!! Read this Interesting Perspective!!

Dear Friends and Students

On Dec 2^nd, I attended a talk on the occasion of National Pollution Control Day. The key takeaway from the session was “Driving too slow or Driving too fast does not help much to the Environment as both release different types of pollutants”. When I try to understand this concept a little deeper, I realize that driving behavior has a significant role than whether we drive too slow or too fast.

Engines are optimally efficient when driving at a constant (‘cruising’) speed, not when accelerating or decelerating. In practical terms, it might work best between 40kmph to 60kmph. When someone is driving at 20kmph but little aggressive (quick acceleration and deceleration), then also it causes damage to the environment. When someone is going at 90 kmph or above, of course it is dangerous in multiple ways- more pollution and high risk! Definitely they are not environmentally conscious nor social conscious.

A car traveling at an average speed of 55kmph but frequently accelerating and decelerating will not be optimally efficient. Hence, driving style is a critical factor when assessing the impact on pollution.

When I am trying to relate this with earning style (money or name and fame), there is a great relationship. Overnight if we become rich or get a great name and fame, and a sudden drop leads to big damage to the individual psychology. What if it comes automatically? Do we accept or reject? The true answer lies in “Externally Accept while Internally Reject”! This is not an easy task! This is not a theoretical exercise! Knowing philosophy vs. Practicing Philosophy are quite different. It is a Science in an Art form! Many fail to practice!!

Last week we heard a huge praise to Parag Agarwal, IIT Bombay (CSE, IITJEE 77 rank) and PhD from Stanford, when he was taking up the CEO position of Twitter! However, it was less discussed, do we know during the same time there was another news about Vishal Garg, The Better.com CEO who fired 900 employees over a zoom call? How much pain Vishal might have gone through while announcing this?

I do aspire to become CEO but definitely I am not the right person to deliver! I don’t have the required qualities to deliver or discharge that role. I miserably failed in my start-up. Having said that, I give my best in some types of operations.

If someone understands their strengths and weaknesses and prepares themselves for a particular role, it is going to be the best driving for our life vehicle. It is going to be pollution free in our life.

Do you know your Drive Style? If not, identify and best adopt!

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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