The Power of Brain:

The session on 25^th October by Anil Sir was insightful for me and brought closer to myself. After each & every session by him we are going deeper in understanding ourselves. The session started by examining the external factors that impact our creativity but as I dwelled deeper into it I came across that everything relies on us.

The understanding of the power of brain and the ability of taking decisions makes a person true leader as it guides them to introspect themselves.

Decision making comprises of 6 steps:

• Defining the frame

• Collating meaningful and reliable information

• Defining several creative and doable options

• Criteria for defining risk and return

• Trade-offs and value

•  Preparing for implementation

I came across the fact that our right side of the brain is more creative and innovative whereas the left part deals with the complex situations. Our creativity is inborn but in due course of time it fades away with age and experience due to the quality of education imparted and the upbringing in the family.

During the session I came across the 5 step process how creativity can be increased by undergoing the simulations.

The 5 step processes are:

•  Ideation 

• Originality of thinking

• Associational Fluency

• Making familiar- strange by using analogies 

• After analysis make strange- familiar

The creativity is highly impacted and hampered in a human being by the 5F’s: Fear of failure, Fear of criticism, Fear of ambiguity, Fear of lack of time & resources and Fear of loss of self-Image but if we want to overcome these fears we can easily do it over the period of time as these are just the illusions of our mind created by self.

We also came across that no matter how good decisions one take they can be worst outcomes and vice a versa the main concern is to have an intellect of understanding the drastically changing circumstances and bridging the gap by utilizing all the viable options.

We also pondered over the high and low points in our life and how they have impacted us which anyone hardly does in this fast pacing world.

I also came across the ladder of Influence which broadly stated how beliefs influence our decisions. It describes one of our basic habits of mind to take our inferences and judgment as if they were statements of fact. The ladder transfers

•  Our beliefs are the truth

• The truth is obvious       

• Our beliefs are based on real data

• The data we select are real data

• We have all the data we need

In this manner we create our own realities and tend to overlook a lot of information.Towards the end of session I learnt to honor others opinions & views and to have a wider perspective which imparts deeper understanding of the situation.

By: 

Sugandha Singh

HRLP-019