#EssayFrameworkSeries |🎯140+| Framework #14
📌 EssayTopic: Time to repair the roof is when the Sun is shining(#CSE2022)
1) Intro: Anecdote(Athens V Sparta ) or general observation. . In this essay, I started with general obsevation: " It is often said...."
2) Repairing: Taking measures to find loopholes, weaknesses and address them by taking appropriate corrective measures. Remove vulnerabilities to stand the adversity. Its not just about addressing the existing weaknesses, it equally about developing capacities to tackle problems that may arise in context of changing realities(#VeryImp)
3) Roof: All such conditions which protect us from dangers, uncertsianities and adversities. Its a hedge againts odds, a Shock absorber: External roof: Finnaces, skills, civic nationalism; Internal roof: healthy mind and body, emotional intelligence, character, habits among others. This imp distinction btw external and internal roof should be addressed.
4) Sun: Represents all favourable conditions and opportunities. It represents a time when everything is going good and no major problems are bothering us: Economic growth, stable polity, scientific progress, peace etc
5) Why its best to repair roof when sun is shining: tell importance of this in differenr sogeres. Give ~50% weightage here. Give clear 5-6 arguments with proper explanation of each argument #VeryImp. Cover about 5-6 spheres like
●Individual(Building capacities): employed> financjal stability>resourves> try to inculcate calculayed risk taking> back up> cuation against unemplyment and otger uncertainties.
● Families(stregthening the diluting bonds): When times are good> good bonds> resilient relationship> Crisis times when bread winner not there> Family stays together> rebuild themselves
● Economies(addressing structural issues: Higher growth(ie Sun shining)>build macro and micro stabikity+ address poverty/inequalities etc> resilience for unforeseen economic collapses.
●Governance and isntitutions: Stabikity in growth period must go hand in hand with governance and instutional reforms to sustain growth and stabikity(Daron Acemoglu)
Likewise give arguments for other spheres including Environment( very important here coz Sun may not shine again if timely corrections not made, 6th mass extinction), S&T, IR etc too.
6) Sun doesnt always shine, yet the roof can be and must ne repaired(repairing in the dark): post war reconstruction, Covid, India's post independence journey etc.
7) Challenges ie why we dont repair roof when sun is shining: Comfort zone; anticipated stability, normalcy bias, procrastination,misplaced optimism etc. #VeryImp: Dont forget to mention lack of capabilities ie poverty, illiteracy etc as hinrances(#Distinguish yourself)
8) Consequences of not repairing the roof: individual(Walk off the slippery slope before total ruin of character); 6th mass extinction, Political instability(chaos, violence) etc
9) Suggestions: write at different levels ie individual, organisations, society, etc.
10) Conclusion: Emphasize on the learnings of your anecdote. Also contextualise them to ongoing and emerging global challenges.
11) Finisher: Prosperity is not merely a reward to be enjoyed, it is an opportunity to build the resilience that adversity will eventually demand.
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1) 📚Content Enrichment
🧠MustUsePhilosophersandThinkers: Daron Acemoglu | Nietzche | Ultrich Beck | | Amartya Sen | Marcus Aurilious |
💡MustUseConcepts: Antifragility(very imo for #Thesis statement) by Nassim Taleb | Logotherapy | Precautionary principle | Reflexive modernity
2) #Mistakes that limit you to 80-100 range:
A) Restricting the scope of essay by narrow interpretation of key terms: Repairing, Roof, Sun, etc. Understand from above.
B) Lack of Discourse enrichment: Write that sometimes, the roof should be repaired without waiting for the Sun to shine!(#VeryImp)+ Sun may never shine again.
C) Also not addressing the challenges and suggestiona part. Many aspirants miss this.
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