Scratching The Surface [Really Means SCRATCHING THE SURFACE]

 

Sometimes, we [wrongly] liken the surface to the truth itself.  LIKE WHEN he appears to be nice, then he's damn nice.  In the NBA's competitive world of hoops, WHEN a rookie tops the box scores in his very first foray come the next Summer League, the bar gets raised and he's tagged as one of top rookies to shine.  LIKE someone who tops his academic class and is offered an executive trainee role in an MNC, likely it's because he's been identified as a blue-chip 'New Kid on the Block' rookie💚💛💜

WHEN I was first hired at Global MNC Shell @ the workplace, I was NOT that blue-chip Tier-1 hire.  WHICH means, during my early years of our annual performance appraisals, my CEP [Career Expected Potential] was NOT tagged as either A, B or C [because those are employees seen as potential C-Suite level.  BUT within myself, I told myself, that was the least of my concerns because at that time I was barely SCRATCHING THE SURFACE then💧💧💧

BUT the thing is, many of us [and I was guilty of this early in my career], we tend to get in a comfort zone after barely SCRATCHING THE SURFACE, WHICH WHEN translated in layman's terms, by then I had barely learned anything if at all yet.  The little confidence that comes from SCRATCHING THE SURFACE is good [BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH] and we just DON'T need to settle there.  Instead, we need to keep scratching and scratching way way beyond the surface.  Sadly, in these times we're going through, many [if NOT a majority] really lack that enduring patience in life.  Instead, we tend to seek fast and quick results very much akin to those social gratifications we instantly receive via LIKES and FOLLOWERs in social media💥💥💥

WHENEVER I get to spare a fraction of my slack time through the years, I tried to test the waters by randomly raising some topics worth discussing and I realized that most of them only seem to touch the surface.  This is NOT to claim that I'm better than them [as there is NO basis for me to say so] BUT I'd rather blame Mr Google the past years and Ms AI at least the past year OR so because they seem to be always within our fingertips and WHEN we throw a question, WHATEVER it is, voila, got the answer!!!

Our takeaway:  AFAIK, the results arising from either Mr Google OR Ms AI [LIKE ChatGPT] might NOT be objectively acceptable in all situation by everyone.  If only we spend some time critically reading and thinking the entire threads, sometimes some learning can be expected to happen.  True, it takes years to get good at something.  We can only create OR contribute anything useful IF we keep learning in systematic manner.  Really, SCRATCHING THE SURFACE literally means the same thing too!!!