ARUN JAIN'S DIARY

1. 99+ per cent mass in animals and plants consist of just 4 elements – CHON – Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen. All beauty of nature is designed with these 4 elements.
2. Design of all species and their behaviour and characteristics are based on just 4 elements – Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine and Thymine (CGAT).
3. Apple with just 4 products – iPhone, iMac, iPad and AirPods generates over 365 billion$ of revenues.
4. Sometime we celebrate and link productivity with higher number of activities.
5. Sometime I measure my importance with number of meetings per week or number of mails I receive in my mail box.
6. For Design Thinking – ‘why’ is important before ‘what’? ‘Why’ brings clarity of purpose.
7. Once there is clarity of purpose, one can make a few choices using his wisdom. Making a few choices are the most difficult decisions in the life of an individual.
8. Japanese decluttering guru Marie Kondo’s Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up has revolutionised lives by the ‘Power of Deleting’ principle. This principle creates space for thinking and execution.

I call ‘Less is More,’ as the First Law of Design Thinking.

#design #productivity #power #law #beauty #designthinking

1. Thoughts are the starting point which helps drive us towards choosing the direction or dream or goal.
2. Thoughts are continuously coming to all of us at a very high speed.
3. When I wake up in the morning, I don’t control the origin of a particular thought.
4. The speed of thought varies during the days, weeks and various situations. Say it varies from 30 KM per hour to 100 KM per hour based on the situation.
5. The more the speed of the thought, the more energy is required thus faster blood flow and more glucose consumption. Continuous and fast speed of thoughts can put a strain on human organs from blood pumping, wear and tears to sugar management lines.
6. Meditation is the process to watch the speedometer of the speed of thoughts. Once you start watching the speed, the speed starts slowing down.
7. When we walk slowly then we can observe a lot of things around us, while driving in the car very few items are observable.

The slowness of thought speed makes us better listeners, observers and thus brings better empathy.

These are the prerequisites of good design thinking and better outcome.

#designthinking

Transformation of villages can happen when villagers own the change and work together. In the above movie, Sidharth Tripathi, a government bureaucrat works with the tribal community and the change is visible.

1. Complete alcohol free tribal community
2. Family income increases 3 times from 3 crops per year vs. 1 crop per year. This is because of water conservation.
3. The education of the tribal women and then building SHG where banks are comfortable giving loans up to 5 lacs creating nextgen entrepreneurs.
4. Curiosity of villagers to learn scientific agriculture and crop diversity like Shimla Mirch etc., increased income further.
5. Youth participating in sports, this way they stay away from drugs and alcohol.
6. Both forest conservation and water conservation i.e. ecology drivers built in.

We visited Aram Kera villages in February 2021 and were amazed to see how Personal Development with minimal cost can drive 50 to 100 times the economic viability.

#transformation #ruralindia