Thursday, February 27, 2020

Friday Series - Week 4 /13 – Tips for Starting a Healthy LifeStyle by Dr...

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Friday Series - Week 4 of 13 – Tips
for Starting a Healthy LifeStyle by Dr G Sivaraman
– Life In Simple Terms – Personal
Transformation Journey – Part 2

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ஹீரோயின்களுக்கும், ஹீரோக்களுக்கும்
வணக்கம்.

Tips for Starting a Healthy LifeStyle by Dr G Sivaraman, Siddha Doctor.
I dedicate this Episode to my Arogya Doctor Dr. Sivaraman. Hats off to Doctor.

·        
Do not
skip breakfast. Between dinner to breakfast, it should not be more than 12
hours window
·        
We need
to have 2 big meals, one single meal per day. Eat breakfast like a King, Lunch
like a man, and dinner like a beggar.
·        
Aligning
your meal times with body clock. Have breakfast between 7 to 9am, lunch between
11:30 to 1:30pm, dinner around 6:30pm
Pay attention to your body's master clock |
Emily Manoogian | TEDxSanDiegoSalon

·        
Having
late dinner, immediately going to bed, might increase your waistline
How meal timings
affect your waistline

·        
Do not
be your own doctor by searching in Google, have a family doctor who can suggest
a holistic approach according to your family history, lifestyle and health
condition

Reference:-
Tips for Starting a Healthy
Lifestyle -Dr.G.Sivaraman PART-02

Happiness Hidden in Healthy
Diet : Dr.Sivaraman

ஊடகங்கள் நம்மை முட்டாளாக்குகின்றன Dr Sivaraman Advisable Speech

Pay attention to your body's
master clock | Emily Manoogian | TEDxSanDiegoSalon

How meal timings affect your waistline

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Monday, February 24, 2020

Part 1 - Week 4 of 13 – Drink your food, chew your water by Madhavan(Mad...

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YouTube channel லை வாழ வைக்கும் தெய்வங்களாகிய எல்லா
ஹீரோயின்களுக்கும், ஹீரோக்களுக்கும்
வணக்கம்.

I went to my friend’s wedding. As soon as I entered the dining hall, I
was given 35 items menu. I wanted to taste each and every item. I was elated,
exotic and excited. I felt very happy. I came home. I could not sleep. I felt
like vomiting and disturbance in my stomach.

That was when, I saw Madhavan’s speech in Youtube. I felt very
impressed.

This week topic is “You are what you eat”

Drink your food, chew your water:
R. Madhavan at the RWC16

Lessons Learnt from Video:-
About Madhavan: Most we know him as an Actor. However he is a multifaceted
personality.
·        
When he
was still in school he was a star in CC Kadett and he went to UK to train with
the British Army the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.
·        
Big
believer in protection of animals
·        
PETA
ranked him as a person of the year
·        
He's a
is also a writer and a producer

·        
I went
to this place in Austria spent a lot of money go to this place which is a you
know was a Wellness Institute and they had been running that for 150 years.

·        
We were
categorically told no phones, no newspapers, no television, no nothing you will
sit there.

·        
We're
going to follow a principle here called drink your food and and some sip chew
your water so it's drink your food and chew your water.

·        
Take a
piece of spelt bread chew it 40 times
at least till it becomes liquid that becomes completely liquid then
swallow it

·        
It's
not going to be easy your mind is not going to allow you to do that it sounds
very simple your mind is never gonna allow you to do that.

·        
Every
time you take a sip of the soup don't don't gulp it down put it in your mouth
gargle it in your mouth, feel it, chew it with your teeth and then swallow it.

·        
When
the mind or your body knows exactly what it wants your mind gets sated after
chewing for 14 to 15 minutes.

·        
If you calculate
every time you've been to a party, every time you've been to a dinner, you can
only eat collectively for 15 minutes.

·        
What do
you eat, how much you eat and that is a totally different thing but you cannot
chew for more than 14-15 minutes because the brain sends a signal to your body
saying stop eating you got enough food

·        
The
protein or Gym doesn't do the job for you. Your conditioning of the lifestyle that you're leading while
you eat the food will determine what aspect of the food is absorbed in your
body.
·        
The
most muscular animal in the forest and he said what does the Ox eat just grass
it's it's a herbivore and even in the herbivore it only eats grass and he says
so how does he get all the muscles no protein shake for that ox.

·        
The
brain and your body is far more spectacular and smart than you people

·        
What we
learnt from India where we say the final point of the whole conversation is people
in our Shastras
say that you are what you eat by that what he meant was your emotional success,
your emotion so you emotional, your success, your temperament, the way you look
at the world, your family relationships, your professional relations everything
depends on what you eat

·        
You are
what you eat

·        
It
basically means that, in today's world people are so stressed out he says that
Mr. Madavan if you're not able to give yourself 10 minutes in a day to sit
quietly without your mobile phones without your conversations without your
television without being distracted to eat your food then you're doing a stupid
profession and you're not a successful person.

·        
All great people in the world who
have achieved any sort of greatness were very disciplined on one thing and that
was their food. Alexander the Great to any Magma's to everybody food was a very
important factor

·        
The body when you chew it enough when you start
drinking your food when you chew it enough the brain takes all the signals from
your saliva your sugar and your carbohydrates gets digested in the mouth.

·        
Any doctor will tell you that your saliva sends a
signal to your brain saying this gentleman is eating certain certain things so
prepare your app your your guts a core to secrete the acids according to the
food being taken so that the right amount of absorption is done for the food

·        
Most of
us wolf down the food which means that you're raining your intestine with one
enough without information to your brain with just food and anybody who's in
the medical profession will tell you that other food doesn't get digested in
time it becomes toxic so therefore the brain will leave all other activities
including put its it itself at risk to just make sure that the food gets
digested

·        
When
you're working out your chest or you're working out your abdomens or you're
working out your biceps or triceps the blood rushes in to those parts to stop
the muscle from getting damaged and therefore it gives a definition and a size
and then the more you do it the more the muscle test the more it becomes the
fiber increases and it becomes bigger and more efficient well what is the blood
rush into the muscles

·        
the gut your stomach is your
second brain

·        
And if
your stomach is your second brain you must understand that it knows how to take
care of the body

·        
When the food is gulped down the small intestine is
not able to digest it completely so it pushes it to the large intestine with
undigested food which is actually the food of this bacteria because bacteria is
a plant and like all plant it absorbs this particular food and from a lawn it
becomes a forest that's why we get our little belly because the large intestine
is swollen up it's become hard it's become tough

·        
Most importantly the blood flow and the flow of
digestive juices become very limited and your body is not now healthy it is
unhealthy it is actually functioning below optimum

·        
My second brain is actually functioning properly
and he said Mr. massive and the first thing I
will
tell you is you will not eat food after six o'clock in the evening what time do
you go to sleep I said ten actually lied I go to I go to sleep at 2:00 but he
said ten I wanted to sound healthy but he said if you're sleeping at ten you
have to make sure that you finish eating your food at least three hours before you go to sleep because that will determine how successful you are in
your career

·        
If the
blood is in the digestive system all the time when you lie down in the prone
position
the blood is kept there and it is meant to
digest the food that we've eaten quickly and then rush to the brain the moment
you eat food just before you go to sleep the brain says forget me all the blood
let it be in the gut and let it just digest the food that you've eaten right
now so that if you don't digest he's going to become toxic in three hours and
you will die as a result that brain does not that blood from the gut does not
travel to the brain and when it does not travel in the alpha state to the brain
what happens is the entire rejuvenation of the body and it doesn't matter what
age group you are and young old or anything the entire rude rejuvenation that
sleep is supposed to do is to blood carries all the information about which
nail is not working why the hair is falling why the skin is looking dry which
part is being infected which bone is hurt what is hollow all the information
that is going to be there has to travel to the brain the brain analyses it and
before you wake up before the beta state before the state that you wake up all
the signals are sent out to every part of your body and once that signal is received
everybody is reset you wake up

·        
It is
very possible for us to activate each one of those DNA's that we have the same
as the Barnabas as well as the chimpanzees this particularly conditioning about
how you have your food and how you let your environment affect you will
determine which of those DNA's get get activated

·        
Sit down
eat your food without being distracted make sure you chew 40 times make sure
you drink your solid food and chew your water

·        
The day I started doing that it was spectacular
every result that was wrong in my blood group came back started getting
normalized my hair started growing more healthy I was
·        
able to think more clearly

·        
I did not have to think make notes over things that
had to be done during the day and from being below average health-wise I was in
my opinion functioning optimally and it is very
·        
difficult to convince yourself to be young when you
are 46 years old and you're here Owen is 17 years old and she's on this set and
exhibiting totally different aspects of being an actress's

·        
I've ever been used to where you know hey I bought
a tattoo here or I have a piercing there do you want to see it and I'm no I
don't want to see it but I well you know it's very difficult to relate to them
but sometimes if you have enough stories in your in your pocket you're able to
be make yourself relevant even to that generation and being and want and
feeling like the alpha male on the set feeling like you're the healthiest one
over there feeling like you were the boss is very important for a hero and for
me this experience in Austria helped me get there.

Ways to practice daily:-
o   Drink your food 40 times, chew your water
o   14-15 mins, you feel full in your stomach
o   Watch your lifestyle conditioning while you
eat
o   Eat 3 hours before you sleep
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Reference:
Drink your food, chew your water:
R. Madhavan at the RWC16

R. Madhavan On His Diet Plan
- Unveiling Of Health and Nutrition Magazine

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Friday, February 21, 2020

Part 2 - Week 3 of 13 – Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction – Life In Sim...

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YouTube channel லை வாழ வைக்கும் தெய்வங்களாகிய எல்லா
ஹீரோயின்களுக்கும், ஹீரோக்களுக்கும்
வணக்கம்.

We spoke about Mindfulness on Monday. Today I am going to talk on
Mindfulness based Stress Reduction.

Stress… Stress… Stress… What are our stresses?

No.1 Stress - Constant Self
Talk(running commentary)
Visualize yourself standing in front of the mirror, Watch your thoughts
for minute… List down those thoughts…
You and I know very well that what kind of thoughts do we get generally.
I am not good enough
I am a failure
I am fat, I am lein, I am black, I am lazy, so on and so forth.
The way I see it is, Like the Vikram vedha movie, Our vedhalam is our
mind. All of us have our running commentary in our end, Most of our
conversation happen is with our self. How can we make this Vedhalam as our
friend.

No. 2 Stress due to Media
Our main stream media and everyone around us are constantly injecting
Fear, Anxiety and Worry. Abdul kalam even said, we have too many negative
messages in our newspapers, media and social media as well.

No.3 Attention Economy
We are in attention economy. Everyone, Every apps, Every person wants
our attention. We are constantly bombarded with too many information.

What is the solution to the
problems?
We all go to Google for everything. I did my research HBR and Google. I
found a Video Mindfulness Meditation that was taught in Google office for all
google employees.

Speaker is Jon Kabat Zinn – Professor of Medicine. I found it very well.
If history remembers Jon for only one thing that will be for being the first
person to successfully bring meditation into mainstream medicine.


Jon Kabat-Zinn

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jon Kabat-Zinn (born Jon Kabat, June 5, 1944) is
an 
American professor
emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the
Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the 
University
of Massachusetts Medical School
. Kabat-Zinn was a
student of 
Zen Buddhist teachers such as Philip
Kapleau
Thich Nhat
Hanh
 and Seung Sahn and a founding member of 
Cambridge Zen Center. His practice of yoga and studies with Buddhist teachers led him to
integrate their teachings with scientific findings. He teaches 
mindfulness, which he says can help people cope with stress,
anxiety, pain, and illness. The stress reduction program created by
Kabat-Zinn, 
mindfulness-based stress reduction
(MBSR)
, is offered by medical centers, hospitals, and
health maintenance organizations.
[1]
Mindfulness meditation workshop [Watch from 26 min]

Lessons learnt from the
Video

One of Jon’s favorite poems, by Derek Walcott, who is a Nobel laureate in literature, from the island of Saint Lucia,
Afro-Caribbean heritage. But this is a very short poem, so try to drink it in
in the same way as you were drinking in the breath, and the sounds in the room.

Love After Love.

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to yourself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, who you have ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

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Reference:

EP- 88 – நொடி
பொழுது வாழ்க்கைThe Power of Now… - Greatness Series - Zero to Hero in 100
days

Learning to Pay Attention: 5
Steps to Mindfulness Meditation

How to Practice Mindfulness
Throughout Your Work Day

Spending 10 Minutes a Day on
Mindfulness Subtly Changes the Way You React to Everything

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Sunday, February 16, 2020

Part 1 - Week 3 of 13 – Practice Mindfulness informally in all activitie...

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ஹீரோயின்களுக்கும், ஹீரோக்களுக்கும்
வணக்கம்.

Couple of days back, I was introspecting with my coach. She asked,
When was the time you felt very lively?
When was the time you felt fully present?
When was the most memorable period of life?

It immediately brought me back to my college days / school days. It was
more like Hero/Heroine got introduced in the movie, fully live, full of energy
and enthusiasm

Nowadays, we are fully loaded with Stress… Stress… Stress… We are
feeling stressful due to EMI, Personal loan, work pressure, media, society and
latest addition is Corona Virus. Almost all of us are feeling the same. It has
become a norm these days.

We are constantly thinking 30 sec forward in our thinking. What is the
next thing to do? We are all busy being busy all the times.

While eating, we think about work. What is the next thing to do? Our
mind is constantly racing.

Another thing is happening in our lives, we are loaded with too much of
information overloading. We are constantly bombarded with pings, notifications
etc. we all thing that is the way of life.

When I do more research to this problem, I got the solution as
Mindfulness.

From Bharathi Baskar to Bhagwad Gita, it mentions about staying present –
Mindfulness.

What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgemental awareness. It is
cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the
present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In
the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.

Staying present and in the moment.

Practice mindfulness informally in eating, driving, walking and every
day activities.

It increases our
-         
Focus
-         
Concentration
-         
Mind power

I am going to suggest practising mindfulness in an informal way.

Learning to stay in the present

A less formal approach to mindfulness can also help you to stay in the
present and fully participate in your life. You can choose any task or moment
to practice informal mindfulness, whether you are eating, showering, walking,
touching a partner, or playing with a child or grandchild. Attending to these
points will help:
·Start by bringing your attention to the sensations in your body
·Breathe in through your nose, allowing the air downward into your lower
belly. Let your abdomen expand fully.
·Now breathe out through your mouth
·Notice the sensations of each inhalation and exhalation
·Proceed with the task at hand slowly and with full deliberation
·Engage your senses fully. Notice each sight, touch, and sound so that
you savor every sensation.
·When you notice that your mind has wandered from the task at hand,
gently bring your attention back to the sensations of the moment.
Cultivate mindfulness informally
In addition to formal meditation,
you can also cultivate mindfulness informally by focusing your attention on
your moment-to-moment sensations during everyday activities. This is done by
single-tasking—doing one thing at a time and giving it your full attention. As
you floss your teeth, pet the dog, or eat an apple, slow down the process and
be fully present as it unfolds and involves all of your senses.

Ways to practice daily:-
o   Spend 20 mins per day / 1 task per week
o  
Focus on
the task with undivided focus/attention
o  
Take
deep breathing / abdominal breathing to bring the focus back if it wanders
o  
Feel
the sensation in your body/five senses.
o  
Watch
your thoughts/emotions/feelings
o  
Doing
that particular task as if it is a meditation for you.

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Reference:
EP- 88 – நொடி
பொழுது வாழ்க்கைThe Power of Now… - Greatness Series - Zero to Hero in 100
days

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Friday, February 14, 2020

Part 2 - Week 2 of 13 – Know ThySelf – Discover Your Strength – Life In Simple Terms – Personal Transformation Journey – Friday Series

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ஹீரோயின்களுக்கும், ஹீரோக்களுக்கும்
வணக்கம்.

Today we do deep drive into Extroversion vs Introversion. My youngest
daughter has been facing the following questions since 3 years
·        
Why are
you Shy/Reserved?
·        
Why are
you not conversing freely?
·        
Why are
you timid/mellow?

Even in the young age, She always asks me, I am not good enough?. Not only
her, all the introverts are facing the same challenges from the society.

That is when, I started researching on this topic. I did read the Susan
Cain book, Quiet – The power of introverts and Adam Grant TED videos.

Lesson Learnt from Susan
Cain TED talks
Susan Cain – The Power
Of Introverts

About the Author:
Susan Horowitz Cain[7] (born 1968) is an American writer and lecturer, and
author of the 2012 non-fiction book 
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop
Talking
, which argues that modern 
Western
culture
 misunderstands and undervalues the traits and
capabilities of 
introverted people. In 2015, Cain co-founded Quiet Revolution, a mission-based company with initiatives in the areas of
children (parenting and education), lifestyle, and the workplace. Cain's 2016
follow-on book, 
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, focused on
introverted children and teens, the book also being directed to their educators
and parents.

Extroverts

Introverts

Outgoing,
Charismatic & Doer

Normally
tagged as Shy/Reserved/Mellow

Bold
& Assertive

Free
to go roaming around the adventure land inside their own mind.

Social
and Engaging

Normally
tagged as antisocial, but it was really just a different way of being social



Hobbies
like Book Reading, Long walks alone in the woods and time in solitude.



Introverts
are going through a feeling of guilty due to the norms sets by schools,
college, workplace and culture.




do
most of our work pretty autonomously.



Need
more time in solitude – crucial ingredient often to creativity.



It
is okay to turn down dinner-party invitations.

Lesson Learnt from Susan
Cain TED talks
·        
Fond of
reading books is like a perfectly natural thing to do.
·        
Free to
go roaming around the adventure land inside your own mind.
·        
Introverts
- all work very hard to be outgoing.
·        
I felt
kind of guilty about this. I felt as if the books needed me somehow, and they
were calling out to me and I was forsaking them.
·        
All the
times that I got the message that somehow my quiet and introverted style of
being was not necessarily the right way to go, that I should be trying to pass
as more of an extrovert. And I always sensed deep down that this was wrong and
that introverts were pretty excellent just as they were. But for years I denied
this intuition, and so I became a Wall Street lawyer, of all things, instead of
the writer that I had always longed to be -- partly because I needed to prove
to myself that I could be bold and assertive too.
·        
When it
comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do
best. A third to a half of the population are introverts -- a third to a half.
So that's one out of every two or three people you know.
·        
All of
them subject to this bias that is pretty deep and real in our society. We all
internalize it from a very early age without even having a language for what
we're doing.
·        
Now, to
see the bias clearly, you need to understand what introversion is. It's
different from being shy. Shyness is about fear of social judgment.
Introversion is more about, how do you respond to stimulation, including social
stimulation. So extroverts really crave large amounts of stimulation, whereas
introverts feel at their most alive and their most switched-on and their most
capable when they're in quieter, more low-key environments. Not all the time --
these things aren't absolute -- but a lot of the time. So the key then to
maximizing our talents is for us all to put ourselves in the zone of
stimulation that is right for us.
·        
But now
here's where the bias comes in. Our most important institutions, our schools
and our workplaces, they are designed mostly for extroverts and for extroverts'
need for lots of stimulation. And also we have this belief system right now
that I call the new groupthink, which holds that all creativity and all
productivity comes from a very oddly gregarious place.
·        
And for
the kids who prefer to go off by themselves or just to work alone, those kids
are seen as outliers often or, worse, as problem cases. And the vast majority
of teachers reports believing that the ideal student is an extrovert as opposed
to an introvert, even though introverts actually get better grades and are more
knowledgeable, according to research.
·        
Okay,
same thing is true in our workplaces. Now, most of us work in open plan
offices, without walls, where we are subject to the constant noise and gaze of
our coworkers. And when it comes to leadership, introverts are routinely passed
over for leadership positions, even though introverts tend to be very careful,
much less likely to take outsize risks -- which is something we might all favor
nowadays. And interesting research by Adam Grant at the Wharton School has
found that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes than extroverts
do, because when they are managing proactive employees, they're much more
likely to let those employees run with their ideas, whereas an extrovert can,
quite unwittingly, get so excited about things that they're putting their own
stamp on things, and other people's ideas might not as easily then bubble up to
the surface.
·        
Now in
fact, some of our transformative leaders in history have been introverts. I'll
give you some examples. Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi -- all these
people described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all
took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not
to. And this turns out to have a special power all its own, because people
could feel that these leaders were at the helm not because they enjoyed
directing others and not out of the pleasure of being looked at; they were
there because they had no choice, because they were driven to do what they
thought was right.
·        
And we
all fall at different points, of course, along the introvert/extrovert
spectrum. Even Carl Jung, the psychologist who first popularized these terms,
said that there's no such thing as a pure introvert or a pure extrovert.
·        
But
many of us do recognize ourselves as one type or the other.
·        
And
what I'm saying is that culturally, we need a much better balance. We need more
of a yin and yang between these two types. This is especially important when it
comes to creativity and to productivity, because when psychologists look at the
lives of the most creative people, what they find are people who are very good
at exchanging ideas and advancing ideas, but who also have a serious streak of
introversion in them.
·        
Need
more time in solitude - a crucial ingredient often to creativity.
·        
Darwin
took long walks alone in the woods and emphatically turned down dinner-party
invitations.
·        
Theodor
Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, he dreamed up many of his amazing creations
in a lonely bell tower office that he had in the back of his house in La Jolla,
California. And he was actually afraid to meet the young children who read his
books for fear that they were expecting him this kind of jolly Santa Claus-like
figure and would be disappointed with his more reserved persona.
·        
Steve
Wozniak -  says that he never would have
become such an expert in the first place had he not been too introverted to
leave the house when he was growing up.
·        
Now, of
course, this does not mean that we should all stop collaborating -- and case in
point, is Steve Wozniak famously coming together with Steve Jobs to start Apple
Computer -- but it does mean that solitude matters and that for some people it
is the air that they breathe. And in fact, we have known for centuries about
the transcendent power of solitude. It's only recently that we've strangely
begun to forget it. If you look at most of the world's major religions, you
will find seekers -- Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad -- seekers who are going
off by themselves alone to the wilderness, where they then have profound
epiphanies and revelations that they then bring back to the rest of the
community. So, no wilderness, no revelations.
·        
This is
no surprise, though, if you look at the insights of contemporary psychology. It
turns out that we can't even be in a group of people without instinctively
mirroring, mimicking their opinions. Even about seemingly personal and visceral
things like who you're attracted to, you will start aping the beliefs of the
people around you without even realizing that that's what you're doing.
·        
And
groups famously follow the opinions of the most dominant or charismatic person
in the room, even though there's zero correlation between being the best talker
and having the best ideas -- I mean zero.
·        
Much
better for everybody to go off by themselves, generate their own ideas freed
from the distortions of group dynamics, and then come together as a team to
talk them through in a well-managed environment and take it from there.
·        
And why
are we making these introverts feel so guilty about wanting to just go off by
themselves some of the time?
·        
One
answer lies deep in our cultural history. Western societies, and in particular
the U.S., have always favored the man of action over the "man" of
contemplation.
·        
But in
America's early days, we lived in what historians call a culture of character,
where we still, at that point, valued people for their inner selves and their
moral rectitude. And if you look at the self-help books from this era, they all
had titles with things like "Character, the Grandest Thing in the
World." And they featured role models like Abraham Lincoln, who was
praised for being modest and unassuming. Ralph Waldo Emerson called him "A
man who does not offend by superiority."
·        
But
then we hit the 20th century, and we entered a new culture that historians call
the culture of personality.
·        
So,
quite understandably, qualities like magnetism and charisma suddenly come to
seem really important.
·        
And
sure enough, the self-help books change to meet these new needs and they start
to have names like "How to Win Friends and Influence People." And
they feature as their role models really great salesmen. So that's the world
we're living in today. That's our cultural inheritance.
·        
Now
none of this is to say that social skills are unimportant, and I'm also not
calling for the abolishing of teamwork at all. The same religions who send
their sages off to lonely mountain tops also teach us love and trust.
·        
And the
problems that we are facing today in fields like science and in economics are
so vast and so complex that we are going to need armies of people coming
together to solve them working together. But I am saying that the more freedom
that we give introverts to be themselves, the more likely that they are to come
up with their own unique solutions to these problems.
·        
Favorite
thing to do in the whole world was to read.
·        
Introverts
would often end the conversation prematurely for fear that he was taking up too
much of your time.
·        
I
prepared for moments like these as best I could. I spent the last year
practicing public speaking every chance I could get. And I call this my
"year of speaking dangerously."
·        
I'll
tell you, what helps even more is my sense, my belief, my hope that when it
comes to our attitudes to introversion and to quiet and to solitude, we truly
are poised on the brink on dramatic change. I mean, we are. And so I am going
to leave you now with three calls for action for those who share this vision.
·        
Number
one: Stop the madness for constant group work. Just stop it.
o  
We need
much more privacy and much more freedom and much more autonomy at work. School,
same thing. We need to be teaching kids to work together, for sure, but we also
need to be teaching them how to work on their own. This is especially important
for extroverted children too. They need to work on their own because that is
where deep thought comes from in part.
·        
Number
two: Go to the wilderness. Be like Buddha, have your own revelations. I'm not
saying that we all have to now go off and build our own cabins in the woods and
never talk to each other again, but I am saying that we could all stand to
unplug and get inside our own heads a little more often.
·        
Number
three: Take a good look at what's inside your own suitcase and why you put it
there. So extroverts, maybe your suitcases are also full of books. Or maybe
they're full of champagne glasses or skydiving equipment. Whatever it is, I
hope you take these things out every chance you get and grace us with your
energy and your joy. But introverts, you being you, you probably have the
impulse to guard very carefully what's inside your own suitcase. And that's
okay. But occasionally, just occasionally, I hope you will open up your
suitcases for other people to see, because the world needs you and it needs the
things you carry.
·        
I wish
you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

Myers–Briggs Type Indicator
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
is an 
introspective self-report questionnaire
indicating differing 
psychological preferences in how
people perceive the world and make decisions.
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By Jake Beech - Own
work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30859659

This week’s topic is Know Thyself – Discover Your Strength.

Ways to practice daily:-
o   Spend 20 mins per day / 1 Hour per week
o  
To
identify our strength
o  
To know
our strengths and weakness
o  
To
accept ourselves better
o  
Identify
moments when we feel good/great about ourselves

Exercise for the week:-

Other tests:-

Please share your suggestions, feedback in practicing this.

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feedback, and comments to rajesh.x.narayanan@gmail.com

Tagline: Life is great; make the most out of your strength

Quote for the Week:-
Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can
make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to
your heart’s desire – Isabel Briggs Myers

Cheat Sheet for MBTI
Presentation:-

Week 2 – Cheat Sheet:-



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