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October 04, 2005
Dynamic Branding, Infinite Games and Non-Attachment
Last Thursday’s session was like a walk inside a flower garden. So many different flowers, yet all of them share the characteristic of a flower. It felt as if the flowers are constantly blooming in our Thursday garden and we are the bees drinking the nectar and aiding the pollination. I was volunteered by two others to start the check-in. Since I am going through a branding exercise at work, I have been thinking about possibility of dynamic branding. The usual branding process is to give an entity a unique persona that best expresses the essence of that entity. The...Posted by Ragu at 02:57 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
October 11, 2005
Happiness
Attendees: Prasad, Srikanth, Vijay, Manju, Dinesh, Srini, Vipin Manju started the session with a prayer to goddess Saraswati composed by Suresh Kumar (father of a friend, Mayank) – see postscript below. Srini wondered what he would ask God if he could ask him for ten things. Srikanth suggested asking for enduring happiness. Dinesh wondered if simple or “passive” happiness would really make one happy/satisfied in the long run. What about learning which often required effort, and even pain? Wouldn’t learning lead to new/richer forms of happiness? Manju gave an example of how the departure of her nanny/cook had made her...Posted by Ragu at 02:39 PM | Comments (184) | TrackBack
October 26, 2005
Communication, Script
Srini started the check-in: Once of his friends is a left-brained, logical person who was facing relationship issues with team members at work and with family and friends. Srini asked his friend to try telling himself, “May be another perspective is possible” whenever he had some problem. His friend took the suggestion and is already seeing the difference it is making to his relationship. Also, Srini said that he has quit smoking! Whenever someone announces to others that he has quit smoking, I think it also becomes the responsibility of the others to encourage and support the person who quit...Posted by Ragu at 02:15 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
I don't know
Vijay started the session by saying that he continues to be surprised by the number of choices he has to make in remodeling his house. He said that at the surface level, it looks like there are only x number of choices to make. But the closer one gets to the details, the choices to be made just multiplies. He then said that one of the things he took away from an Ayurveda workshop he attended was the quote by Michael Kreuzer, “Don’t hurry, don’t worry, stay busy, be happy”. While this looks like simple statement, it actually is a...Posted by Ragu at 02:15 PM | Comments (284) | TrackBack