Self Leadership_Version 3.0_Sukriti Sinha

The session on Self Leadership on 26th October was about the Brain, how we take decisions, Creativity and ended with our personal Mission Statement. 

The left side of our brain is responsible for grasping complexity and the right part for our creative ability. Together the Brain takes certain decisions. The session gave us an important framework for taking decisions:

• Defining the frame - Most critical question
• Collect  meaningful and reliable information
• Define several creative and doable objectives
• Logic for evaluation (Risk and return )
• Values  & trade off’s
• Looking at implementation

The next topic of discussion was the creativity of the brain. Before this session, I believed that everyone has a certain level of creativity that is inherited. But this session gave me a new insight. One's Creativity depends on how liberal or conservative was one's upbringing and education. This creativity is not static, it can be built and I am sure that my creativity is definitely going to increase a lot by the time I graduate from SOIL. :)

      

     The next part of the session was the most fun-filled and made us explore our creativity to the maximum. We formed groups of three, four  and even seven and formed ourselves in different shapes like fountain, bow and arrow, nursery rhyme, waterfall and even booming sunflowers. We thought of multiple uses of things like A Pen. We also found similarities between a roaring fire and a cat and found solutions to end the fire.

    These types of creativity can be categorized as:

•       Ideational fluency
•       Originality Of Thinking
•       Associational Fluency
•       Learning from Analogy

    There are certain fears that restrict us from getting creative:

•       Fear of Failure
•       Fear of Criticism
•       Fear of Ambiguity
•       Lack of Time & Resources
•       Loss of Self Image

    From the above discussions on Creativity, I learnt the following:

1.            Creativity of many can be combined to create things that we would never have    imagined.

2.       You have to be a little crazy to show your creativity at its best
3.       To be creative, you have to let go of yourself and your inhibitions
4.       Creativity can be created and learnt
5.       You should not think about what would be the reaction of people around you before trying to be creative

   The last talk was on forming our personal mission statement. It was a very powerful activity and the video attached will be a reminder for us to take every step keeping our personal mission statement as our final goal in life.

Regards,

Sukriti Sinha
HRLP 023