Anubha Sood

Last class we were talking about success and sharing our success stories.
We had a discussion on Richard St. John’s eight secrets of success, which are:
Serve
Passion
Work
Focus
Push
Good
Ideas
Persist
These are the big eight things which lead to success.
We viewed Raghava KK’s idea “Shake it” an art project, a children’s book for the I Pad. It’s about the fun things children do with their parents. The Different or the new idea here was that if you don’t like it shake it, the story and the perspective changes. It’s about shaking your perspective a little bit starting with children.
Later we were talking about what makes each of us successful? There was a lot of singing, dancing and sharing of ideas and work.
In the second half of the class we viewed Mallika Sarabhai’s Dance to change the world. Mallika a dancer/actor/politician tells a transformative story in dance -- and argues that the arts may be the most powerful way to effect change, whether political, social or personal. The Planner’s of this world have treated Art as the cherry on the cake it needs to be the yeast.
she challenges the traditional ending to fairy tales which have always been rather chauvinistic.

To be or not to be.

Most of us love to hate someone.
But hate is a powerful word.
I say I hate someone because I cannot tolerate that person.
and so there may be various reasons for different people to say that they hate someone.

Why do we hate someone?
It is because of the body language or tone of their voice or some outer or inner characteristic?

We spoke about a daily acquaintance of many.
What is so unique about him/her that he/she manages to create a dislike for him/her in people?
Is it the style of communication, because we all are saying something which does not go with one culture which creates a gap.
That person might not fit into our cultural values and we might not fit into somebody else's.
Then why blame others for being in the arena of hatred where at some point we might belong there too.

We believe we have the authority or sometimes we assume or pretend to have the authority to blame/dislike someone. This authority is our rank.
I know I have a rank in college because I can paint good and comfortably with all kinds of medium.At the same time I know I face difficulty in writing, so I take extra efforts but I pretend in class as though it was easily and simple.
Thus when we know that we are at a lower rank than a person/group we are more conscious and if are at higher rank we might not take extra efforts to be recognized.
Thus we need to analyse others in a situation and talk accordingly and represent ourselves in a certain manner for our benefit and for others too.

30^th September

In previous class we all decided for one on one with facilitator, to know ourselves in different context. While one on one talks were going on, rest of us were assessing our selves. After self assessment we all discussed it in groups of three.

She also gave us an exercise to know how successful we were in past 24hrs and will be, in next 24hrs, 3yrs and 10yrs from now.

It was hard to think but in the end everyone got their success successfully. The assignment was to know that success can be small. “Whatever makes you happy is success for you”.