Mind of my Stroked Brain

Take a typical well accomplished doctor as a professional (in India as an example)... People have to finish ~ 4-6 years of childhood  ​ p ​rior to  schooling  ~ 13 years of schooling (K-12) ~ 5.5 years of M.B.B.S ~ 3 years of specialisation  ~ 3+ years of super specialisation  And a few years of practice afterwards, they will be considered a well experienced and accomplished doctor. Roughly speaking at least 30-35 years. And they probably have to have had a very good track record all through. A Doctor was just an example and is on the higher side. Take any other profession and  ​to  be a good/ accomplished professional, it will take at least 25-30 years, after being born. Point is, none of us ( humans ) are born professionals. Sure, some may have an edge because of  ​their  genetics of being a little more "intelligent" or having a little more "memory capacity", etc.  However, everyone is born with these capacities with a " clean canvas "...

  Let us assume you had a wonderful vehicle. Can be any vehicle - 2 wheeler, 4 - wheeler, a truck with 18 wheels, anything. A vehicle with a good old fashioned IC engine and not the newer EV models  You have had it many years and have had wonderful experiences with it. You have great memories with it.  Let us assume one day it had a very very bad accident and it is completely broken. The specialist mechanics have had a look and haven't been able to do anything to fix it. It is a write off basically...  However, miraculously, the engine survived the accident and is able to run. But, as the vehicle is so absolutely damaged, it just can't ever run  ​anywhere  again ​ and be useful as a vehicle anymore . You can never ever have those experiences with the vehicle again.  Now, because of the good times you have had and can remember, how long will you put fuel everyday and keep just the engine running? It's not an efficient engine anymore. Needs a lot of fuel...

 Thoughts are not linear to easily understand how we came across some line of thinking. It jumps from one to another seemingly unrelated thoughts. This is one such thing. I have no idea why I started thinking about this... Note: as usual, some of the things I have said might not be relatable ​to everyone  and even offend ​some of  you. Please ignore and read no further in such a case... "Survival of the fittest by natural selection" - that is Darwin's famous and well accepted theory explaining evolution.  According to it ​, simply put, evolution is a random series of mistakes (genetic mutations) which makes specimens of species either fitter or weaker and subsequently, nature has a brutal mechanism of weeding out everything that was less fit as against a fitter specimen and the better one survives. It applies to everything from animals, plants, insects, birds, fish, etc., etc. ​ That is how any species has not just survived but gotten better and better over the year...