Perspective: Constructive "Jenga"


Most of us are aware of Jenga-Wood Block Game!
It is a fun game to play.

My current firm has unknowingly inculcated a constructive habit of making innovative structures with the Jenga blocks.

Have Observed, at our work place or at our home we all tend to take 5-15 minutes of breaks as a breather. Generally we hear music, watch trending videos, go through social media posts, talk with colleagues, take a coffee (chai-sutta) break, have a phone call with friends or simply sit idle. Everyone has their own suitable way of taking their breathers.

The habit that I got into at office is to make structures using the Jenga Blocks, a thanks from heart to office management for keeping the Jenga Block accessible to all. Sometimes the structure comes out the way I want, sometimes it does not and sometimes it simply falls down. Best is when a colleague joins in, adds his own ideas and starts to make a structure himself. Week in week out this goes on. Now have even got a Jenga set for home. Thus my cousins, niece and nephew also indulge in it.

Now the important point, making structures with the Jenga actually helped in making me more productive and efficient. 5-15 minutes of Constructive "Jenga" breathers result in hours of focused work. Also it results in finding solutions for some of the problems faced while doing actual work. Take for instance following example. Once when I was determining the memory structure of a Hardware Design, making the structure of it using Jenga blocks actually did wonders. It felt as if a interactive session with the Design Architecture is going on. Similar the way we use CAD tools. But CAD tools have their own constraints, on the other hand here its like unconstrained subconscious is provided a path to transpire constructively!

P.S.
1. "Jenga" is subjective here, for me its Jenga blocks for you folks it can be something else. Intention is that one should find out his or her Constructive "Jenga"!

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