On
16th Of October we had our first class with Anil Sir after our
Sidbhari trip. There was a lot of
anxiety in the class on what would be in store for us for the day .Our thought
process had already kicked in and had gathered steam as we all set to ride for
a thrilling experience with him.
He
started the day with emphasis on emotional quotient and stressed that a person
who is high on emotional quotient and average in other intellect can beat a
person who is pretty low on emotional quotient and high on intellect. It had
set tone to understand the power of Intellect and the brain. With this context,
he began explaining about a the most important things that should be kept into
mind before taking a decision. It is called the Hep’s Model. The main steps involved
in this model are
- Define the frame
- Collect meaningful and reliable information
- Define several creative and doable objectives
- Logic for evaluation (Risk and return )
- Values & trade off’s
- Looking at implementation
He
then explained about how Ron Howard at Stanford had coined the term decision
analysis. Applying this framework i was able to carve out a career choice for
myself.
Later
in the session we were intrigued to think on what lies at the heart of
creativity and we were made to realise through a series of exercises that
creativity among our age ie from 20 -45 has come down to 2% but it is at its
zenith when we were between 5 -15. Next topic he explained was on the 4
dimensions of creativity namely
·
Ideational
fluency
·
Originality Of
Thinking
·
Associational
Fluency
·
Learning from
Analogy
The
session became interesting as it went on further and the next task for all of
us was to rate us on a scale of 1- 6 for 5 questions to understand what our
fears were which hindered in our creative thinking process. Moving on to
transcend our fears we were made to work in a group and asked to enact various
shapes like a tree, fish, bird, steam engine and a thunder storm. We also were
put to question regarding what was enabling us to get into the flow and what was
coming in our way. I understood that our most feared thoughts were coming in
our way but if we put a little bit of efforts then we can overcome our fears.
The next session dealt with understanding
criteria’s important to us and values we need to achieve those. We were asked
to create our life map to understand our highs and lows and asked to create a
personal mission for ourselves.
The
final session dealt with understanding of the Ladder of inference which
describes one of our basic habits of mind : Our reflexive use of inference and
judgement as if they were a statement of fact.
- I take my actions based on my belief
- I adapt beliefs about the world
- I draw conclusions – make Judgements
- Assumptions based on the meanings added
- Constructed meanings
- Selected data from Observations
- Observable data and experiences
The
day ended with a new definition for LOVE – Love Our Values Eternally
October 22nd
The day started with remembering the martyrs of the India china war of 1962 as it was the 50th anniversary of the war and stories of bravery and courage was shared in the morning circle. After this breath taking story Anil sir now deep dived into his own personal life and shared his experience with us about his encounter during the Sikh Riots of 1984 and how he overcame his fear and gathered immense courage to face the situation. The important lesson that we some learnt was that we should love for a cause so as to transcend all the fears. An insightful quote which he shared was “Courage is not absence of fear but the realization that something that is a cause more important than fear”.
The
session went on with a video where the world’s happiest man Matthieu Ricard
shared some of his insights on what happiness means to me and essence of
happiness. Some of the key indicators of essence of happiness are
- Living in the present moment
- Overcoming mental blocks through meditation
- Honour Life
- Transforming our minds for better is happiness
- GHI and not GDP
Then
he shared his views on based upon a research on what can be the determinants of
happiness. It was found that the main determinants of happiness were religion,
good relationship, thinking style , exercise. It can be understood from the essence
on happiness is that when we get rid of ego and
desire what remains is a force that drives happiness.
The
final session of the day was mainly concentrated on concept of ‘Immunity X-Ray’, which is a scientific way of
overcoming your fear and bringing change in oneself. We were asked to think and
write about things that we want to change in our self but have often found it
difficult to change. This was followed by series of follow ups which we
needed to practise so that the things we want to change move from a conscious approach
to an unconscious approach.
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