Jugaad your way to create better!

Jugaad your way to create better!

This Indian approach at problem solving does what it is employed for, solves problems!

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In broader Indian sense of the word Jugaad can be attributed to and described as, the solution that will resolve the problem practically and functionally till all the brains dedicated to the problem solving charade come up with better versions of the solution! In many ways, Jugaad serves to stretch the functional life of a device or situation demanding decisions which otherwise would have stopped working if the involved parties and agencies waited for the stars to form a bulb like formation and pour the perfect solutions inside the heads of the seekers!

As an Indian, you cannot not be aware of existence of this problem solving technique in one form or the other! In fact, the term Jugaad is abusively used to deride this innately Indian quirk of coming up with solutions with elements available in the immediate environment!

I got a pleasant jolt of thunderbolt when widely acknowledged and respected authors of Ikigai

Included a whole chapter on Jugaad in their book titled The four Purusharthas- The path to happiness, success and a meaningful life

It takes extraordinary research and getting into the bone marrow of the topic at hand to recognise and respect such intrinsically local spirit of life and write about a term that us Indians have abused with negative connotations at every available opportunity! Take a bow Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles!

In many legitimate ways, Jugaad works as an antidote to pursuit of perfection version of procrastination! While you may end up never solving the problem at hand by waiting endlessly for the perfect solutions to pop into the coconut shell, Jugaad is a spontaneous resourcefulness of human faculties at finding a solution immediately and resolving the glitch!

The authors HG and FM throw in a surprise for spiritual consumption when they establish a connection between Kaizen and Jugaad and actually represent problem solving in a diagrammatic form which features Jugaad and Kaizen as its proud constituents! In fact, let’s announce this right here right now that you must get a copy of this book by the duo for yourself and use it as a twin to the ephemeral creation by the same duo, Ikigai!