The last two sessions of Self leadership in October
really have transformed the thinking and certain beliefs of all students.
16th October –
The session 3 started with recapitulation of the concepts
of 5 layers of Self-Realization from previous sessions – Body, Emotion,
Intellect, Ego, and Soul. Then the session started with the concept of
Intellect, in continuation with previous sessions on body and emotion, and we
started understanding the power of intellect through a process that one should follow
while making decision in life.
The process starts with understanding the most important
question, the answer to which “defines the frame”. Then one needs to look for
meaningful and reliable information, followed by creative and doable
alternatives. It is followed by finding out the logic for evaluation,
considering the risk and return associated, along with value to come at
conclusion. Finally, one needs to look at the possible implementation of the decision.
Then we were asked to identify the type of career and
career goals that we want to pursue and based on the decision framework
identify the best career objective.
The session also had the discussion on creativity, which
was mainly on the originality of thinking and associated ideational fluency. We
also discussed about a book, “Fourth Eye”, written by Pradeep Khandwalla.
We did an exercise to understand our own fear inside and
how to overcome it through comprehension and awareness about it. A separate discussion
on value and mission of life through a few questions helped us to clarify our
mind about our future goal.
Final hour of 3rd session helped us understood
the concept of “Ladder of Inference” coined by Peter Sengi. It is a tool to be
aware of how one’s action has sub-layers that determine the cause of the action
and how one creates perception about his own thinking.
22nd October –
The last session on self-leadership was culmination of
past 3 sessions and it started with the discussion on definition of “courage”.
We discussed the topic within our groups and later shared with the class. One
definition which stood out prominent was – “Courage is not the absence of fear;
but it is the realization of something that is more important than fear”.
We watched the video of Mathieu Ricard on happiness, in
which he spoke about attaining happiness and happiness is nothing but a state
of being. We then learnt about the value of happiness in real world through a
few questions, determinants of happiness, and how economists can learn from
psychologists so that happiness can find a place in economic thoughts.
Finally we learnt about a very powerful tool called “Immunity
X-ray”, which is a scientific way to understand one’s own thought and getting rid
of unproductive habits. It also involved understanding the way the challenges,
mental blocks and the way to action which the one aspires for.
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