K-pop – Korean pop is getting to the world stage. They used structure to bring a cultural shift within Korea and then made it an exportable industry since 1992. Today it’s a 5 billion dollar industry.
I normally see documentary movies around positive creations or impact. I bumped into a series, “Worst engineering accidents”. Gained some interesting learnings from the stories on anti-patterns of Design Thinking.
In animal species, male can also give birth. With a sea horse, it’s the male who gives birth.
I was reading the US Constitution and just 27 amendments have happened during the last 200 years.
One of the Amendments 18, in the year 1919 caught my attention. It reads:
“Making, selling and transporting alcohol within the United States, as well as importing and exporting alcohol to and from the United States and its territories, will be forbidden”.
It was implemented for 14 years and repealed in 1933.
I was surprised that a western country like America did it despite the cold weather. ‘Dry’, the Group linked it to human development and religious values.
Poorna is the youngest girl to climb the Everest at the age of 13 years and 10 months. She did this feat in 2014. It’s unimaginable to even think about such a feat.
Now, Rahul Bose had made a movie on Poorna – a must watch!
There is a story of the Secretary of Social Welfare, Praveen Kumar who believed in education and Poorna. His single act helped inspiring thousands of school students in Andhra Pradesh.
You may like to watch the movie. It’s like Dangal but not made by Aamir Khan.
I observed that various NGOs are doing selfless work in the development of our society. They are doing this work with very frugal money. Many of them are very creative in using this money for the highest impact.
Most of the time, they are alone. We in the industry have exclusive industry bodies like FICCI, CII, MMA, Nasscom, TIE etc., which provide us with networking platforms for learning best practices from each other as well the opportunities to influence government policies.
I want to know if any such platforms exist for positively impacting NGOs.
Or
Is there an opportunity to create an all India platform on the lines of industry platforms like Confederation of Social Impact Organisations (CSIO) with chapters at district levels in India?
Mr. Popat Rao has created a demonstration on Swaraj village. He is working with the community since 1986. Today, there are just 3 families below the poverty line in the village.
I was watching the movie ‘Ramanujan’ – the person who knew infinity. I enjoyed the movie. It very well captured history.
One thing that touched me more than Ramanujan was his wife Janaki. She just waited and waited and after his early death at age of 32, she completed her life as a widow.
I was not sensitive to this aspect of gender inequality.
I was observing the trees in front of the windows in the morning after the short rains. All the leaves of the trees just had a nice wash. Two parrots flew in and sat on the branches and started enjoying the fruits of the tree. Another Myna flew in and was collecting sticks for her nest from the tree and located a space on the tree itself to create her home.
I have witnessed the calmness of the tree, year on year. I enjoyed its growth over the last 10 years since we shifted our house.
Today, I realised its existence as well as growth is truly selfless, which can be extended to all trees.
Part 2 – Celebrating selfishness
Nature has created the animal kingdom to support plants like earthworms, bees, butterflies, birds etc. They coexist and create a symbiotic and healthy community.
I don’t know at what point in time or why nature has created animals one bigger than the other.
Today, we celebrate animals like the lion. I don’t know why? We know it’s lazy, survives by killing others in the jungle, generates fear in everyone, and does not contribute anything to the forest’s development.
Still we celebrate the brute power of the lion or tiger. What do we enjoy – the pity of the deer, cow or goats?
I don’t know what emotions drive this behaviour of humans?
We use 3 words synonymously – self-image, self-belief and self-confidence but they have their unique meanings.
#1 Self-belief – provides the decision matrix for good or bad
#2 Self-confidence – absence of fear
#3 Self-image – visual image of ‘what I want to see myself in this world’
Among the top 3, it’s self-image that drives your behaviour, the learning capacity and decision making capabilities, which in turn is an indicator of high performance.
Our Human Resource processes focus on skill development rather than changing self-image. Once self-image is changed, the person will acquire the needed skills himself.
Hello, my name is Arun Jain. I am a design thinker living in Chennai, India. This is my blog, where I post my thoughts, technology trends and tips about the fintech world and many more.
