26 August

Looking back at the course outline which is process oriented psychology for success, we started off by discussing a recent story that defined success. For example: Somebody lost her cycle and found it after a few days in a small cycle garage nearby. This happened partly because of her dad’s persistence and partly by her luck. These two factors were essential in making it successful.

We all must remember to make eye contact while telling our name. One by one, we stood on the table and said our names with proper pronunciation, boldness and eye contact.

Consensus and non consensus reality was discussed in previous class, this time we talked about the third existence which is the ‘essence’. Essence neither falls in consensus nor non consensus, it’s mainly the fact that something has to happen and nobody has control over it. You can describe it as fortune. 

In France, people might take off their clothes as soon as sunlight appears and they won’t care about the people around them. But the same thing cannot happen in India. In the both the places people know about their morals unconsciously. Morality becomes a ghost when the context is mentioned.

Then we were asked to think of something that irritates you. Each of us discussed our irritations to find a solution for it.

P.S: We still need to plan a field trip.

Our Passions and Us

It is imoprtant to be passionate about something to move forward towards it. It may not be very important in our life, it may not be a big thing. As a person's passion depends upon his or her own self. I believe that our lives are completely dependent about being passionate. If we stop being passionate about one thing or other, we may not find our aim of living.
We were supposed to make a presentation on the thing we were most passionate about.
The topics chosen were eyes- by Pragya Joshi
photography- Vishakha Jindal
interior design- Aditi Goyal
sketching-Rutuja Patil
animation- Sadhana Prasad
street dogs- Tanya Pande
coconut leaf weaving- Surabhi Joshi
Calcutta food- Sreeja Basu
water- Shrujana Niranjan
Everybody talked about their passions and we noted, how much each person knows about their passions. How was their attitude towards it by looking at the way they talked about it. We looked at their body language that how enthusiastic towards it.

From this exercise, we concluded that to reach a certain goal a passion towards it is very very necessary. To polish the tarnished mirror of our life, we need to be passionate and walk towards it and polish it every day, so that it it shines in our life.

The Vagina Monologues

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/v/vagina-monologues-script-eve-ensler.html

The Vagina Monologues

http://www.scribd.com/doc/57510488/Eve-Ensler-Vagina-Monologues

This is the link to the script of the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

5 successful Women and 5 successful Men

Class Assignment:

1) Name 5 successful men

2) Name 5 successful women

3) Try to understand and define the characteristics that make them successful in our eyes.

This particular assignment required a lot of brain storming. Everyone came up with their own set of popular and everyday heros. This assignment led to discussion about what really success and career meant to each of us? There were many prejudices that led us to think of success as being rich; by the end of the discussion we realized that to some people their career is the only thing in their life and their will to be successful in their career is NOT a shallow concept.

The entire discussion then steered toward successful women. The multiple roles that both men and women have to play was discussed. When we discussed our roles, the role of being a woman stood out. The entire discussion then tool a very feminist track.

Film Stars and their success was also discussed. While some of us thought that the success that celebrities enjoy is extremely superficial; some of us thought that it is a well deserved success because of the hard work and passion that goes in to creating such big names for themselves and the work that they do requires a whole lot of effort and is important to them.

5th August 2011

We started off with discussing about how many women talk in a soft and low voice. We talked about the way in which society conditions us to talk politely and softly, since few of us disagreed with this point; we tried to enact the way in which men talk but couldn't pull it off. Hence, to find out for ourselves we went outside to know who really makes all the noise? Many of us found that when girls are in a large group we 'screech' especially when there are boys around. We found that boys talk loud but clear and the only time we found girls talk loudly it was in the form of screeching and screaming. Boys who were standing and talking outside classrooms were not audible to us but the boys playing on the football field were loud since the sport required them to communicate loudly.

Assignment 1

Group Assignment:

1) How would you define success?
2) Who according to you is a successful person?
3) Talk about someone you consider role model of success. What are the certain qualities that make them the role model? Why these specific qualities?

Demonstrate these qualities as a group.

Individual Assignment:

1) How successful are we?
2) Describe your success.
3) Why is it a success?

(Respective groups answer as a new post)

Is it Give and Take?

"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule."
-Albert Einstein 


How often do we serve others?
A service is something that starts from the basic.
Be it helping others,
or giving moral support,
Feedback,
Acknowledgement andListening.



Whom did you serve the last time today?
(Please post your answers as comments to the post.)

Tips to Success

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html

An interesting talk by Richard St Johns about the 8 secrets of success.
An important point he mentioned which most of us related to was "Push yourself through self doubt. And knowing that at times it wont be easy, god created mothers."

Here comes the idea of an 'Internalized Mother'. One who 'pushes' you to do what you need to without an existence.

First contact

Who am I?
How do I define myself?
What decisions influenced me to be what I am today?
Who governs my choices? How does our brain work?

Does my self-believe motivate me ?  or
Do I have self-doubt?  Whats the solution?
Is it a hindrance or a critique?
Am I persistent in what I believe? How long does it last?
Am I demotivated easily?
What is right or wrong?

These are some of the questions that are unconsciously present in our mind.


Process Oriented Psychology: Understanding The Reasoning for Success is a course that gives us an answer to these questions.
As an individual, we question ourselves, we analyse as we know and then discuss the various reasoning's as a class.