Better spoken English - A quick fix

Poverty in India cannot be eradicated through quick fix methods like Rs 2/kg rice or free rations. That will only bring votes and more money for the corrupt.

You cannot rely on a quick fix to achieve better spoken English skills. It is a skill which has to be built on a solid foundation through due process. Find the program which would give you the right amount of practice and then pursue it relentlessly till you meet your objectives.

A quick fix – that’s the phrase for this post.

A quick fix is a quick fix – something which quickly fixes a problem. Note the two key words – it is quick and it is a fix, not a solution. Thus, circumventing the problem, finding a quick get around so that the problem stops bothering for the moment – that’s a quick fix.

Something which doesn’t really solve the problem for makes it go away for the time being is a quick fix.

Let’s take some examples:

  1. Corruption is a deep problem with many layers. There cannot be a quick fix to it. Far reaching measures need to be carefully planned out to be able to fight this menace.
  2. When the new manager joined, he understood immediately that the morale of the workers was down and any quick fix would not solve the problem. He spent time with them, tried sincerely to understand their problems and resolved at least some of them. He won back the workers’ trust and got the production started.

A quick fix is a band aid solution. It can hide the injury for a while but does nothing to really heal it. Let’s close with some more examples:

  1. Transferring the IAS officers is just a quick fix. Unless law and order machinery is strengthened, unless people realize that if they  rape, they will be punished, nothing will change on the ground.
  2. Sacking the coach for India’s defeat is a quick fix solution. We need to find out why our batsmen who do very well on subcontinent pitches fail miserably on fast and bouncy pitches.

 

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