Sourabh Chhajed_BLP006_Self_Leadership_October_2012

The was the last session on Self- Leadership sessions by Anil Sir for the year. As always, we started the day with morning circle. The day started with asking a question i.e. how do we take decisions, how do we make choices? Ron Harvard’s work on Stanford research comes up with an interesting framework for the decision making process gives as below

·                         What is the most important question

·                         Collect meaningful and reliable information

·                         Define several creative and doable alternatives

·                         Define logic for evaluation in terms of risk and return

·                         Values & Trade offs

·                         Implementation

To understand the application of this framework, we did a small exercise in which we applied the framework in deciding the career options we would pursue after MBA.

In our next session we discussed the way people are brought up and how creativity gets affected between the ages of 10-15. The education system is more biased towards the right or wrong of the subject rather than knowing the reasoning behind it. God sends us with completely open minds to receive all that we can and be creative in our own ways, but we put layers of fear to condition our minds.

In the latter part of session we discussed about The Ladder of Inference:
Describes one of our basic habits of mind: our reflexive use of inference and judgment as if they were statements of fact

·                         Our beliefs are the truth

·                         The truth is obvious

·                         Our beliefs are based on real data

·                         The data we select are real data

·                         We’ve all the data we need

Earlier Class

As October 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of Indo –China war , we paid respect to brave soldiers who had laid down their lives for the nation. We discussed what brings about courage in people that they sacrifice their lives.
The discussion brought about below points

·                         Courage comes from passion

·                         Courage comes from self-lessness , when you serve a higher cause

·                         Courage comes from inside – the cause for which you are fighting

Then we saw a video in which Matthieu Ricard talked about what is happiness or well being and how can we all get some. He spoke about the difference between happiness and pleasure and that one should look for happiness inside rather than outside as we have higher control of elements inside rather than outside. Then we did the happiness exercise how we rate ourselves on happiness index, happiness relative to others.

Lastly we learnt about a tool called Immunity X-ray , which is a scientific way to understand one’s own thought and getting rid of unproductive habits. People are not able to overcome their habits because they have some hidden competing commitments.