The Living Room Rug

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A Discussion should start from family, travel with your friends, exchange with the great minds end with the goal that you started it for!

-Anonymous

Communication is an essential tool in our lives, and it will remain to be for many more years no matter by what means, that is what keeps the world alive.

Discussions a subpart of the communication process is when a group of people sit together start chatting about a topic sometimes with an official purpose and in other cases, just a casual, informal discussion.

When the discussions happen, and in a proactive and hopefully with intellectual participants, you come out with some conclusions sometimes brilliant solutions to everyday life problems which can turn things around.

Such conversations and discussions with friends and family are called a living room rug confab.

Even though you do not see this listed as an official phrase list in the eminent dictionaries available in the world, it is a well-known slang or a degree of comparison which is referred to in certain situations.

For instance you, a working professional is talking to a school kid who feels waste management and keeping the city clean is not a such a mammoth task! The latter would respond to him saying “Hey kid this is not a lesson in your class that you study and forget this is practical life! And tend to end this conversation by quoting “this is not a living room rug confab! We need to put it to action.”

But time and again in history, there are legitimate success stories of people turning such symposium into something exciting and mind-blowing that has brought a change in the world we live in.

First in the list of such greatest stories is the formation of the Silicon Valley itself! That was the 60s in the U.S. where young engineers all graduated from colleges were doing garage experiments in electronics with all the P-N-P and the N-P-N transistors and eureka! You see some contemporary inventions like the silicon chip the Integrated circuits (I.C.) and many more gizmos which shook the world and opened up the plethora of computing and information technology possible.

Apple Inc. originated from a humble garage in Crist Drive in Los Altos, California, two inventors Steve Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak decided to build a computer when there was nothing called a computer market which existed.

Imagine all the conversations and the discussions they would have undergone, the result of which is, today folks like us standing in long logjams to buy their products irrespective of the price!

That is the price we are paying for the Awe effect! The marvel created in our minds which are the result of the important discussions and the work of the inventions, beautiful isn't?

Similarly, Google Inc., no need to tell more about this one! Google is there in our lives, or I can definitely take the liberty and say our lives move in sync with Google! Again a groupthink of two geniuses Larry Page and Eric Schmidt in Menlo Park, California, U.S. Today Google has changed the world!

 We fly around the world only because of the wright brothers who picked on some aeronautical events that happened in the late 1800s’ I quote from: Crouch 2003, Chapter 10, "The Year of the Flying Machine" and Chapter 11, "Octave Chanute".

“1896 brought three important aeronautical events. In May, Smithsonian Institution Secretary Samuel Langley successfully flew an unmanned steam-powered fixed-wing model aircraft.

In mid-year, Chicago engineer and aviation authority Octave Chanute brought together several men who tested various types of gliders over the sand dunes along the shore of Lake Michigan. In August, Lilienthal was killed in the plunge of his glider. These events lodged in the minds of the brothers, especially Lilienthal’s death.

 The Wright brothers later cited his death as the point when their serious interest in flight research began. Wilbur said, “Lilienthal was without question the greatest of the precursors, and the world owes him a great debt.” In May 1899 Wilbur wrote a letter to the Smithsonian Institution requesting information and publications about aeronautics.

 Drawing on the work of Sir George Cayley, Chanute, Lilienthal, Leonardo da Vinci, and Langley, they began their mechanical, aeronautical experimentation that year.”

Well, again, a great example of what can productive discussions and research result, just think those jubilant moments the Wright brothers have given this world.

There are numerous and even more astounding examples all around the world. I just picked a few pinnacles from this century.

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So discussions are good at any point of your life, at any level personal or professional.

Remember to start a conversation with anyone of your choice if you have an idea and build on it, who knows it may unwrap a new chapter in your life and may take you places!

A Discussion should start from family, travel with your friends, exchange with the great minds end with the goal that you started it for!

-Anonymous

There are many of these conversations that just fade away limited to your living rooms, let’s try to bring it out of the living room on to the mainstream because ideas do not pop up in everyone's mind, maybe you are one among the chosen ones! Small puddles create a stream that will lead you to a brine.

Thanks a lot for your time

Have a good week ahead.

Helios.