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A scientist goes into the laboratory near a table and observes. He comes out. A child is seeing this. What it observes is that he bent over something, peeped in and then came out. The scientist searches for his glasses. The child says he has left them on the table in the room. Who has greater observation? The scientist who took the reading on the instrument or the child who saw the activity of the scientist and noticed that the glasses were left on the table. Both have observation. But it was focused differently. Depending on their past experiences, both the scientist and the child focused their mind on different areas of the same room. Thus, observation is just an ability to focus our mind on some part of the visual signals coming in, based on our past experiences. Logic also is recall of past patterns. If we never had felt the heat of fire, we can never conclude that fire heats up. Thus, logic is the ability to link many past experiences in terms of cause-effect relationship. When we have a new situation, we can link the cause-effect learning from another situation and use it in a new circumstance. This is creativity. After doing it a few times, we learn which experiences can be used where. Creativity is this ability to take different patterns and link them to make a 'new' pattern. Maybe we need to test this new pattern. This is achieved after some experience and we learn which patterns are useful and which are not. Thus, not only thought, but also qualities such as observation, logic and creativity are dependent on activity/work and formation of mental patterns or microcircuits. Value System It is well known that a mountaineering team that has gone through a traumatic experience together, forms lifelong bonds. Similarly, army Rural Development Through Education System 103