<p>As mombee and Memphis have shared, and I attempted w/ obvious limited success/failure and/or persuasiveness …</p>
<p>The point is NOT squared away meals, in the literal sense. It’s developing unfettered conditioning and thinking in responding to a superior official. Of course, these things are “silly,” BS, nonsensical exercises, notably when taken out of the context of the learning and training process. And that’s fully part of that learning and training process. To follow orders when they make no apparent sense, and to learn how to do so under substantial pressure. But of themselves, there is no logic to why anyone should do these things …beyond, the boss told you to do them. Period. </p>
<p>One day, you’ll get it, even if you didn’t like it. Ever achieving the latter …now that would be totally illogical. While the tasks are totally mundane, inane …completing them is critical to the process. And learning to take one for the team …or for that matter, making sure the team doesn’t have to take one for you.</p>
<p>That said, if you choose not to buy into the learning theory, concepts, and experiential evidence that they seem to work more than not …you might want to try offering alternative solutions to your superiors. 
I’m sure they’ll enjoy knowing you’re concerns and testing your theories and learning exercises. :eek:</p>
<p>btw
While intelligence might be, wisdom is not inherited. It is often learned …from squaring away meals. Read how God imparts wisdom on history’s most prolific of figures. I think the Bible talks about squaring meals among the many amendments and addendums to the 10 Commandments. 
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