Venkata Kalluri_BLP010_Self Leadership_October 2012

15th October 2012

Today we did start our day with an introduction of what Upanishad means. Upanishad is a dialogue between Students and teachers. We discussed the power of intellect, brain understanding and our own thinking process by a framework.

The framework is as follows,

·                     Define the frame by asking what is the most important question to you.

·                     Collect meaningful and reliable information

·                     Define several creative and doable alternatives

·                     Define logic for evaluation which includes your risk and returns

·                     Values and tradeoffs

·                     Implementation

Then we discussed about the career choices and did an exercise on Happiness by probing questions:

1) How do I find happiness in my job?

2) What is Happiness to me?

3) What inspires and motivates me?

4) What gives me personal satisfaction?

We performed an exercise on creativity and looked into aspects why we are low on creativity.

We looked into the factors which influence the creativity. They are:

1) Ideational Fluency

2) Original Thinking

3) Associational Fluency

4) Analogies Formulation.

Also discussed Ladder of Influence and my understanding about it is:

1) Our beliefs are the truth

2) Truth is Obvious

3) Our beliefs are based on real data

4) Data we select are real data and

5) We have all the data we need.

22nd October 2012

Lecture started with discussion of 50th anniversary of Sino-Indian war and we discussed what gave the warriors courage and then discussed what courage means to us. Here are few of my notes about Courage:

1) It is identification with the community

2) It comes from inside - cause for which you are fighting

3) It is Passion

4) It is our belief - God

5) It comes from selflessness - when one senses a higher cause

6) Discovering aspects which even self is not aware of

7) Extraordinary challenge

8) Being true to self

9) Deep love for some one or some purpose

10) It is not absence of fear but realization that something is primary for me

We saw a video, "Mathiew Ricard: The Habits of Happiness" and looked into what happiness is.

We also discussed Immunity X-ray at the end of the day and learnt about SMART (Safe Modest Actionable Research Test) test and how we can convert from

Unconciously Immune => Consciously Immune => Consciously Released => Unconsciously Released.