Re: [AI] Operating in a Culture of Mediocrity

2016-10-13 Thread manohar vaswani
hi rahul your asertions and generalizations are quite true. I also have the same experiences in my life and I know several disabled persons who have to compromise on account of their disability and operate in a culture of Mediocrity. On 10/11/16, Rahul Bajaj wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I hope this

Re: [AI] Operating in a Culture of Mediocrity

2016-10-12 Thread avinash shahi
Blind people demand their due which is rightfully theirs, therefore the HR people who extract bounties out of the total turn over are too critical of them. I feel we should not be too obsessed with mediocrity, its a very relative and contextual term. But yes, blind people should do their level best

Re: [AI] Operating in a Culture of Mediocrity

2016-10-11 Thread Sandeep Singh
Hi, most of us, disabled or not, remain content within our comfort zone; that is why very few go on and achieve greatness in life. One has to strive to improve themselves constantly to move out of this circle of mediocrity, but how many of us actually do that? As for the blind people and their effi

Re: [AI] Operating in a Culture of Mediocrity

2016-10-11 Thread turab chimthanawala
Hi Rahul My learnings from past experiences also fall in line with your post. Well in most cases people generalise persons with visual disability to be incompetent in other spheres as well. Thus unless we convince them of our abilities through concrete proof such as doing well in academics or recei

[AI] Operating in a Culture of Mediocrity

2016-10-11 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi Everyone, I hope this message finds you well. I am wondering what others think about a phenomenon that I have observed quite frequently amongst disabled persons in India and have myself been a participant in. Because one's disability permeates every facet of one's life and constrains many