How often have you heard your elders or your teachers shouting “Use your common sense” or “Apply some common sense “
The term Common sense has been categorized and interpreted in many a ways in the by gone ages. A Dictionary meaning of the term would be good reasoning and philosophically just common sense.
When used attributively as an adjective would suggest what people in common agree to, what their sense perception accept as common understanding.
But the question arises, does Mankind tend to be naïve to this term .The answer is in the negative, as without paying attention to the obvious people usually get carried away in the World of fantasies.
We can derive one common equation:
Knowledge + Common Sense=Wisdom
Knowledge - Common Sense=Nonsense
Mankind has for ever been inquisitive. But we never really found what we looked for. .So going by our instincts we started building it Our selves. That is how Websites took over Books .Emails replaced Letters. Men became more and more intelligent, learnt to use their common sense for betterment.
Whatever our actions are it always rippled around our day to day life. People built houses to live in , applied common sense and structured thick walls to shelter themselves from freezing cold. Likewise houses went on getting better and comfortable for them..
The same applies to workplace. There are abundant examples of people using common sense in workplace. They have seven different perceptions of common sense , experienced as :a gut feeling, an innate
ability, knowing how, learning, using others ,demonstrable cognitive abilities , and personal attributes..
Common sense is something which we all treasure. On several occasions we feel guilty of not using it. The Common sense public safety campaign is designed to remind us to use this often over looked and underrated human faculty ,especially around railways tracks, roadways.
Nov 4th is the Common Sense Day
Thus what we can conclude is Common Sense is the sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge or training. Anyone has the ability to learn common sense. It is
a sense of things being common to other things
a sense of things common to Humanity.