Which is Important? How or Why?

If given a work to someone. How many people will ask…

1)      How to do the work?

2)      Why I need to do the work?

Here, work relates to anything. It can be Corporate work, Govt Work, Household work, Social work…. i.e., any work.

When we ask this question to a number of people,

Around 90 out of 100 people will ask How to do the work?

and 10 out of 100, will ask why I need to do the work?

Most people are interested in knowing how to achieve the work.

But fact says that, those 10 out of 10 people in Why category are guaranteed to complete the work.

But only 10 out of 90 people in How category are guaranteed to complete the work.

Below are 2 scenarios:

Scenario 1:

While passing on a hillside, you see a House, locked inside. An old lady standing outside starts screaming at you, to open the door or even break the door immediately without questioning. i.e., don’t ask why. But she starts explaining how to open the door using different methods/ways.

Highest probability is that, you won’t accept her command/wish to open/break the door.

How actually guarantees to complete a task/work assigned but fails here.

Because reason to do the work is unknown. Pressurizing also does not help to complete a work.

Lowest probability is that you may accept her command and use one of the methods in How to break the door, Without actually knowing the reason why you are breaking the door.

Chances are Old Lady may be telling the truth or she may be just playing a game with you for her personal benefit or the method she had suggested may not work to break the door.

Here, we need to accept the fact that only 10 out of 100 people may/will guarantee to complete a task/work without a reason.

Remaining 90 out of 100 are guaranteed to fail in completing the task/work. That’s why we wonder why people fail, even though they knew how to do the work.

Reason is – They do not find a good reason to do that.

Scenario 2:

While passing on a hillside, you see a House, locked inside. An old lady standing outside starts screaming at you, to open the door or even break the door. She didn’t tell on how to open the door with different methods/ways. But she pointed out a Big Smoke coming out of the window and a child crying inside.

Highest probability is that you will wish to open/break the door.

Even though How to complete a task/work is not explained, but you know the reason why to break the door. Human mind is good enough to find a way in how to break the door, because reason to do the work is known. It does not require Pressure from others to complete a work. If the old lady had some methods in How to break the door, it can be used here.

Very Low probability is that you may not understand the scenario either because you are unfit or irresponsible by nature.

Here, we need to accept the fact that 10 out of 10 people are guarantee to complete a task/work, since they knew the reason to do.

It’s a great responsibility for everyone to understand Why we need to do the work ,than How.