The two day session has
been reported in brief from my point of view
The session started with
Anil Sir posing us question that made our minds and intellect go under
retrospection. The questions touched upon the fact, How do we really take
decisions, how do we come with choices. When we were still trying to put a
structured way of answering it, Anil sir told us about an interesting framework
for the decision making process gives as below.
· Frame
the most important question.
· Collect
meaningful and reliable information
· Create
creative and doable alternatives
· Define
logic for evaluation - risk and returns
· Values
and trade offs
· What
to do to implement it
As the session went by,
the next topic of revelation was what lies at the heart of creativity. The
discussion that followed was really an eye opener. Anil Sir questioned the way
people are brought up and how creativity is killed at a very young age itself.
The core of it is the education system.The education system tells what is right
and wrong along but never tries to understand the reasoning behind it. When we
enter this world, our minds are open like empty vessels, which we can fill with
all kinds of knowledge and be as creative as possible. But while filling the
knowledge, we also fill the layers of fear to condition our mind.
Anil Sir ended this topic by beautifully explaining us about the 4
dimensions of creativity, namely:
· Ideation
of fluency
· Originality
of thinking
· Associative
fluency
· Learning
from analogy, Synaptics
It is at this point I came across the wonderful full form of
LOVE , which is Loving Our Value Eternally.
We were asked to
understand our fears, via some questions where we had to rate ourselves on a
scale of 5. The questions were
· When
you want do something new, how much fear of failure strikes you
· To
what extent, I am conscious of criticism i.e what others will say
· To
what extent I am concerned about ambiguity?
· To
what extent does lack of time and resources bother me?
· How
skeptical I am if I am required to do something new which requires me to be
outdoors, in the wilderness, exposed to nature where my physical senses get
challenged.
The session ended with
understanding with the importance of conditioning the brain and ladder of
inference where we were explained how our cognition, perceptions, and beliefs
determine our actions.
The final session of
self-leadership itself started by honoring the martyrs of India-China War of
1962.I was not aware of this deed by our soldiers and I was very moved by the
incident.The Self Leadership session began with another question to BLP
students, what was the origin of the courage, from where did it come and what
was its essence.Few thoughts that came across the class was discovering the
talent in you and it comes from passion. Courage also comes when you are
selflessness , when you are given a higher cause.It was also an opportunity to
take on big responsibilities. There was thins one favorite quote,
which drew applause from everyone in class. It was- “Courage is not the
absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important
than fear”.
The topic later shifted
to happiness. Anil sir shared a video of a monk named Matthieu
Ricard which who stressed on the fact that happiness doesn’t lie in the
future or past but it lies by living in the present. He told that
happiness is intrinsic can be attained by achieving inner peace, inner
fulfillment, good relationship, thinking style and high self
confidence. Meditation was the ideal way to attain happiness as it was a
peaceful state of mind.
In the end, we learnt the
concept of ‘Immunity X-ray’ which is a scientific way of overcoming your fear
and bringing change in oneself. We were asked to think of facts where we wished
we could change but did not give it a thought later.It stated about overcoming
our grey areas, face the reality and overcome the mental blocks which were
causing a hindrance to what we wanted to achieve.
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