Importance of careful reading

It is important for anybody to read any document that comes to his attention. Glancing the document or reading here and there and then coming to a decision or conclusion is not correct. If a person is intelligent, he can even understand the intention behind the writing also and will understand properly before taking a hasty decision.

However, most of the persons do not bother to read and instead will mark to their subordinates for briefing them. Then, it all depends on these assistants. If these persons are not intelligent / do not have experience / not in stable mind / have grudge against colleagues or superiors or the organization as whole, then it is not difficult to understand which way they guide their superiors.

Acts, Rules, Standards, Codes, Guidelines, etc made for safety, environment, etc are to be understood clearly. If we read only titles and drawn different meanings, then we can't escape from the arms of the law and oneday we may end up in custody, in a worst situation.

However, may persons even do not bother about punishments met by others because of their faults and assume that they are very intelligent and knowledgeable persons and others are fools. Or, they think that they got God Fathers to protect them and therefore do the things totally not acceptable to law.

When we fail to read between lines, we are trapped by those lines. Nothing can be taken for granted in this world. Today's famous persons may become tomorrow's most hated fellows by the society.

Make a wrong step, all your past good deeds are forgotten and you will be displayed everywhere. Particularly so, in this world of so many news channels, which employ all available means to find and discuss threadbare about the issues.

When we issue safety work permits with suggestions, procedures to be followed, registers to be maintained, etc, I doubt very much how many of the executing agencies really go through these lines. They file it as soon as it is received and does the work in the manner which they are doing for so many years, even if the nature of work is different. They think, they invented standard procedure that meets all situations.

Similarly, conduct any training programmes, the contents will be same, irrespective of the target group. Variations in delivery may come only when the audience are interested in asking questions and then our instructor got sufficient knowledge and experience in that field. Else, the standard replies like, "I will come back to you later, or, you find and tell me, or an intelligence question - any of you can answer - think it over and tell me tomorrow, etc" will come. This kills the interest of the audience and they may become rigid to training programmes.

So, it requires a careful reading for any person to succeed in his field. There is a old proverb, TALK LESS - LISTEN MORE.

On similar lines, we can say, READ THOROUGHLY - TAKE DECISION.