“Bio chemistry maths and physics!
All are core and then there’s civics!
Oh the streams they are a ton!
Mebbe be a dancer, now dats fun!”
The amount of choices children have nowadays to choose and decide what they want to be is a complicated issue!
Unfortunately there is no mathematical equation which can solve this problem!
read on!
The tenth standard Board examination was in some ways more stressful that the 12th! This is because during our time, the 10th class results decide our future subjects.
The chief in that were the two major players! Mathematics and Biology!
One was compulsory for Engineering while the latter for medical courses!
Though there were some exceptional kids who selected commerce by choice; the majority of the crowd just went with the flow!
Most selected both Mathematics and Biology while Physics and Chemistry were anyway there!
The only language was English which was selected by default!
The only crux was that you need to score at least some cut off marks to select these subjects in the 11th grade. Even if you take some other syllabus like the state, you still need to have good score in the 10th to get selected.
Now children have so many choices and many of them are so clear on what they want to be! The training and coaching starts as early as possible and their path is clear at least for them! Of course the subjects are similar but then you have more choices and streams to select now!
There are so many different fields to choose and you have so many options, not the age old doc or engineering!
Of course with trend, even the competition is fierce since data and knowledge and information is free to everyone!
In this case you apparently can apply a formula to select what you want! Of course it is never straight forward and there are lots of variables to be considered, but in the end it is a matter of choice.
In this you must know about the Nash Equilibrium.
Nash equilibrium is one of the fundamental concepts in game theory. It conceptualizes the behavior and interactions between game participants to determine the best outcomes. It also allows predicting the decisions of the players if they are making decisions at the same time and the decision of one player takes into account the decisions of other players!
Nash equilibrium was discovered by American mathematician, John Nash. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 for his contributions to the development of game theory.
The simplest example of Nash equilibrium is the coordination game, in which both players benefit from coordinating but may also hold individual preferences.
The most famous example of Nash equilibrium, however, is the Prisoner’s dilemma problem, in which each of two prisoners have the choice of “cooperating” with the other prisoner by keeping quiet, or “defecting” by confessing. If both prisoners cooperate, they will face little jail time, but if exactly one of them defects, the defector will immediately go free and the cooperator will face lots of jail time. The catch is that if both prisoners choose to defect, they will both face a moderate amount of jail time.
Can we apply this to the selection of field or subjects…
Imagine two competing students: Student A and Student B.
If any of them do not take the field they are losing out of the opportunity to get that field!
If both take the same field then the competition is more and that is akin to deflection by both!
Which is exactly what the majority of the students do, they select all the options or ‘deflect’ and actually have a limited ‘jail time’! Which is akin to more competitions albeit with more options!
The one student who decides not to deflect or select the ‘routine’ then gets a better path! Of course only the start! What happens later does not follow any equation! Unfortunately with so many variables it is a difficult matter even for Nash!
At some point there must be an AI who would take all the options and the history and the skills of a student and finally compute a proper ‘option’ for him or her! Of course there are some algorithms which do just that but they lack the ’emotional’ aspect. That one code is missing! Once that is done then maybe the decision is smooth!
Also the person who does make that ‘code’ is set for life! Nash or not! Or maybe if you can dance then do just that! Teach the hook step of the latest trend and make not Nash but cash! Speaking of dance reminds me of the best dance teacher; Nirmala Nagpal! Her students were both Madhuri and Sreedevi! And her dance directed videos are even now epic! You may know her (in case you did not recognize by the sketch; really!?) as Saroj Khan!
Now all equations lead to the single point of sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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