Harpreet Singh_BLP039_Self Leadership_October 2012

October 16^nd, 2012

Session started with Anil Sir explaining the ‘Power of Intellect’ and the related decision making framework.

The framework is as follows:

Ø  Define the frame

Ø  Collect meaningful and reliable information

Ø  Define several creative and doable alternatives

Ø  Define logic for evaluation which includes your risk and returns

Ø  Values and tradeoffs

Ø  Implementation

This Framework suggests that every individual should follow a certain set of processes while making any decisions. This framework can be used for various important choices and it would certainly help in evaluating one’s decisions. Way is- the individual should collect some reliable data, create multiple options, set the evaluation criteria and then look at the values and trade off’s. Only then the decision has to be executed. Anil Sir then explained how the conventional approach of mind reduces the creativity in a person.

Later we learnt about the 4 dimensions of creativity. On exploring what prevents the person from being creative we learnt that FEAR stops a person from being creative. The fear of failure, criticism, ambiguity, wilderness and lack of time and resources are some which hinders creativity.  Anil later explained the ladder of inference. Seven steps in the ladder of inference explain the thinking process that a person might unknowingly experience to get from a fact to a decision or action. 

October 22^nd, 2012

                

Class started by honouring the 50^th anniversary of the India-China War of 1962. Anil Sir then ask a simple question to the class- What does courage mean to you? Anil Sir then discussed the story of our brave soldiers like Major Shaitan Singh and discussed his personal experience of display of courage during 1984 Delhi genocide. Then each one of us was asked to discuss the stories of courage in our groups and come up with our own definition of Courage. The most appropriate definition of courage given by one of our classmate was- “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear”.

Then Anil Sir showed a video of Mr. Matthieu Ricard which conveyed the message that the Happiness is a skill to be learnt and it requires some effort to develop this skill. The key determinants of happiness are-

Ø  Religion

Ø  Good Relationship

Ø  Thinking style

Ø  Exercise

In the end, we talked about Robert Kegan, Overcome the immunity to change. A powerful tool that helps people overcomes tough habits and fears by the immunity x ray.