As I mentioned in my previous post, the E4SI workshop was mind-blowing. At the risk of infringing intellectual property, I would like to iterate the most valuable lessons from a talk by Ayan Sarkar (Associate at McKinsey's NY Business Technology office) at the workshop, which incidentally were not about social enterprise models and change making in particular but about living life in general.1. Life is not a Sprint, its a Marathon
2. Life is 80: 20, only 20 per cent of things are actually important and worth worrying about.
3. Make Mistakes, dont be afraid.
4. Have Fences, clear notions of whats wrong and you absolutely cannot and will not do.
5. Stand Up
6. Question the Known
7. Do Well, Do Good
I liked all except the second one. One cannot actually demarcate and say only this ratio fits good. Instead we might say that there are lesser number of things important(or worth worrying about) in this world than there are not!
ReplyDeleteWell, true. The gist of the matter is that we should be expending our energies on the things which matter and not on any and everything under the sun
ReplyDeleteand i dont like the 4th one. one never has wisdom enough to decide what's correct and what's not. no point in deciding for the future in the present. live as it comes.
ReplyDelete@ Tarun: It refers to a strong sense of morality and ethics, which is something people must decide and abide by
ReplyDeleteLife is a marathon - does this go to suggest against impulsive decision making, think twice before blah..?
ReplyDeleteThis suggests at not wanting to amass everything at one go but moving steadily, wanting to succeed in the long run
ReplyDeleteNice post.
ReplyDeleteDon't agree with the fourth one, there are always exceptional situations we can never imagine of.
and the second one, nothing in life is 'worth worrying' or 'not worth worrying' about. All that is there to life is living it..
like the third and sixth one particularly :)