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Sci­en­tif­i­cally “Brain Dead” means “Irre­versible brain dam­age and loss of brain func­tion, as evi­denced by ces­sa­tion of breath­ing and other vital reflexes, unre­spon­sive­ness to stim­uli, absence of mus­cle activ­ity, and a flat elec­troen­cephalo­gram for a spe­cific length of time”. Lot of jar­gons huh… in lay­man terms brain dead is sit­u­a­tion when the heart con­tin­ues to beat with the breath­ing main­tained mechan­i­cally after the brain has per­ma­nently ceased to function.

This is an unnat­ural arte­fact of med­ical tech­nol­ogy how­ever I am not here to talk more about the med­ical term, i will dwell more into the metaphor “BRAIN DEAD” which is short term for most of us but for some of them its nor­mal. Its when peo­ple start say­ing “ARE YOU BRAIN DEAD” and you still don’t have a quick reply for it. Its for peo­ple who has lot of hmm­mmm.. in their answers or only hmm­mmm.. in their answer. In hol­ly­wood terms it would be the “The DUMB & The DUMBER” and in BOLLYWOOD  all GOVINDA movies.

It hap­pens every time to all the med­ically nor­mal & healthy per­son hav­ing a sound state of mind. Be it in the morn­ing when you just woke up and some body asked you a ques­tion. You are still in a state of half asleep (mind you med­ically brain does not ceases to func­tion med­ically even when we sleep) where in you are not able to answer any­thing thats a BRAIN DEAD sit­u­a­tion. Or you are think­ing about some­thing and some­one really comes up with a great ques­tion and you do not have any answer straight away. What about the tiger\lion\beast con­fronting sit­u­a­tion or hang­ing from the cliff sit­u­a­tion most of the time i believe 70% will have a brain dead sit­u­a­tion. You my friend were BRAIN DEAD for that moment.

In real life there are many ways to tell you that you are in a BRAIN DEAD sit­u­a­tion. One of the polite ways to coin the BRAIN DEAD metaphor is when your boss tell you to Rack your brain & you will get an answer to your prob­lem, here are two pos­si­bil­ity for him to say it either he wants you to learn the hard way out.. or he is play­ing with you and mock­ing that you are BRAIN DEAD. Just like you have watched in most of the famous “HOUSE” episode when Dr. Gre­gory House mocks his interns to get the best out of them.

I know med­ical Brain Dead sit­u­a­tion has no cure . How about the real life BRAIN DEAD Sit­u­a­tion does it have a cure. I guess even here no cure but some pre­cau­tions though

- Either Don’t see some­one when you wake up or Don’t take up any ques­tion in the morn­ing until you had your coffee.

- Don’t work late in the office and do your research before ask­ing help espe­cially from your boss about any prob­lem. Make sure you are ready to answer his “Rack your Brains” state­ment, give him some­thing to think about to. Return him the favor with a more spe­cific ques­tion like what should the con­fig­u­ra­tion for the server (sry an exam­ple form the techie side). I am sure this will def­i­nitely have him rack his brain.

- Go play and be active as the say­ing goes “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” or to put it in our dis­cus­sion a “BRAIN DEAD BOY”

- Have a healthy diet. Exercise.

- The most impor­tant for all. Always beware of the “BRAIN DEAD” guy because like the anom­alies in the med­ical the real life BRAIN DEAD metaphor the guy can come up with a very good ques­tion which will make you look like a BRAIN DEAD.

I hope you are not BRAIN DEAD after read­ing this. Until I see you next time BE BRAIN SAFE..