Alright, so I (perhaps we all) didn't like Dhoni's fielding of questions in yesterday's press conference. People expect a slightly different response from the cricket-mad country's captain cool, arguably the greatest captain India's had.
I asked myself what would I have done. What would most others have done if they were in exactly the same spot as Dhoni is?
To respond to an initiative or a question (very often a challenging one) in the 'right' spirit, one needs to care for it in the first place. But care isn't necessarily instinctual any more. In the current times, to care means to have the courage to care, and the memory to care. Courage causes indigestion, and memory now resides in the hard-drive of the laptop in front of which of one sits and does amazing things.
When (the loss of) crores and crores of money rest on a few words, it's always tempting to let go of the words and the courage required to utter those words. Considering the monetary stakes, it's easy to let go of courage to care for the sentiments of fans all around, courage to match the on-field show of strength in a helicopter shot, courage perhaps to lose even the captaincy of the team one's created, one which has achieved so much.
So I don't have any solution to Dhoni's dilemma. I don't have solutions to any of your situations which require courage to care to respond.
But if care for you is more a matter of (inadequacy or loss of) memory - meaning you find it difficult to remember to care to respond - trying Cockpit might not be a bad idea.
For all you know, you've always had the courage but just not enough specific memory to care to respond. Courage + Cockpit-aided Response is perhaps what the world desperately needs.
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