18th Century by any imagination of today, could not qualify as a fast life. And yet you have one of the most quoted poet Meer talking about the unattendedness. So much so that the entire life passes in a fleeting moment, and one is unable to savor the myriad worlds hidden in so many moments throughout life.
How is it connected to corporate life or life in general?
Let us explore.
Of Seeking and Avoiding
As humans, we experience.
We have so many experiences.
Through the days, the weeks, the months and the life.
There are some experiences we seek.
Then there are some we avoid.
And this seeking and avoiding continues.
As time passes, one keeps bumping into the confusion.
On one hand of the eluding grasp, of the experiences sought and achieved but yet we feel we could not experience them well.
And on the other the unending of the avoided experiences...they keep chasing us.
Somehow we are made to believe or we believe it ourselves or a combination of both, that more possessions or more validations from others would help us in having a better life experience.
But the truth is that we all have had something in our lives that we strongly desired once and we may have it now, and the question is, "how has the experience changed from chasing that to winning it and now after having it?".
And we also have experiences of intensely avoiding some experiences. And then some of those avoided experiences faded away. Some of them still continue. And the question is, "Even after succeeding at avoiding some experiences, and having tons of many more to avoid, where do we stand today?".
Sale! Sale! Sale!
Bring your OLD ANALOG EXPERIENCE! and Take Home HD EXPERIENCE!
Well!
We don't have any shop that can give you that!
Sorry !!!
We will need to cultivate it.
Let us cover a part of it here.
Our experiences have features.
Feature of lasting...some last fleetingly, some for more moments, some for lifetime.
Feature of affecting at mental level, some at emotions, some at body level, some at level of short term to long term goals.
And there are many more features...such as expectation leading to experience leading to expectation leading to experience chain... but them for some other day and blogpost...
So, the question is, "what determines the features of every experience?"
Among many other things, it turns out that we experience things depending on how we savor them.
And because we are constantly on a never-ending and ever-speeding treadmill of to-do and to-become, we tend to under-attend to our various experiences.
Thus accumulating heavy desires of seeking more and avoiding more.
So, what happens when we shift our awareness to our experiences and start savoring them?
We shift our experiences and our expectations.
Hence from "seeking" we shift to "Less is More".
And from "avoiding" we shift to "Difficult is Portal".
Let me explain "Less is more".
Take the example of food we eat.
When we are having our food and we really attend to its various aspects...
Similarly, when we are able to shift our awareness-es in a focused manner to many other things like... the conversation at hand, or the task at hand, we tend to savor them more.
I guess you would have realized by now that it could also help in ensuring that what we avoid as experiences would turn into "Difficult is a Portal".
Through use techniques of awareness, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, body intelligence, social intelligence, we are able to see beyond the superficial label of "difficult".
We then see "difficult" in a nuanced manner, peep into its intricacies, see them as "wow! moments" (in order to apply our abilities...because if everything in the world was already right, what would you and i do? Difficult is necessity of mankind...to grow...to flex the muscle of creativity, collaboration).
Loaded with HD Experience, one feels more engaged at work and in life in general. One feels the "naturalness" of difficulties, one feels the urge to solve, one feels the acceptances of failure and to learn from them, one feels the gratitude of opportunity to be at a job and to perform, one feels to need to use resources mindfully, one pursues aspects of fairnesses or unfairness in the organization/community in a more constructive manner, one feels that organization is a community and if it doesn't manifest as community yet, then one works towards making it one ; one can see the merit that the organization needs to accumulate resources but for the community and not for any individual ...
Those who are unable to have HD Experiences eventually end up getting mired in politics, cribbing, complaining, and not oriented towards solving and seeing the humane part of corporate journey and life.
All of the above doesn't mean that the organization becomes complacent. No! The Organization still exists in an environment, in society, in markets. And it needs to play by some of the rules of the game. But it can develop its own culture and its own ecosystem of internal colleagues, customer base, shareholders, debt-holders and external alliances...such that it creates structures and skills for HD Experiences.
Finally, there are adaptive HD experiences and maladaptive HD experiences. Sometimes when people develop these, they use it with a certain ethics which are self-serving, sometimes the HD experiences can overwhelm a person and shift their intentions and goals in life. Due care and community around could ensure that one's HD experiences are channelized for realizing one's potential and also being part of a humane yet prospering community.
Disclosure: Concepts are embedded in concepts. Hence some of the concepts could be covered only briefly here.
Meer Taqi Meer-Image Credit:
https://www.facebook.com/RekhtaOfficial/photos/a.2447182795304366/2551449271544384/?type=3&theater
How is it connected to corporate life or life in general?
Let us explore.
Of Seeking and Avoiding
As humans, we experience.
We have so many experiences.
Through the days, the weeks, the months and the life.
There are some experiences we seek.
Then there are some we avoid.
And this seeking and avoiding continues.
As time passes, one keeps bumping into the confusion.
On one hand of the eluding grasp, of the experiences sought and achieved but yet we feel we could not experience them well.
And on the other the unending of the avoided experiences...they keep chasing us.
Somehow we are made to believe or we believe it ourselves or a combination of both, that more possessions or more validations from others would help us in having a better life experience.
But the truth is that we all have had something in our lives that we strongly desired once and we may have it now, and the question is, "how has the experience changed from chasing that to winning it and now after having it?".
And we also have experiences of intensely avoiding some experiences. And then some of those avoided experiences faded away. Some of them still continue. And the question is, "Even after succeeding at avoiding some experiences, and having tons of many more to avoid, where do we stand today?".
Sale! Sale! Sale!
Bring your OLD ANALOG EXPERIENCE! and Take Home HD EXPERIENCE!
Well!
We don't have any shop that can give you that!
Sorry !!!
We will need to cultivate it.
Let us cover a part of it here.
Our experiences have features.
Feature of lasting...some last fleetingly, some for more moments, some for lifetime.
Feature of affecting at mental level, some at emotions, some at body level, some at level of short term to long term goals.
And there are many more features...such as expectation leading to experience leading to expectation leading to experience chain... but them for some other day and blogpost...
So, the question is, "what determines the features of every experience?"
Among many other things, it turns out that we experience things depending on how we savor them.
And because we are constantly on a never-ending and ever-speeding treadmill of to-do and to-become, we tend to under-attend to our various experiences.
Thus accumulating heavy desires of seeking more and avoiding more.
So, what happens when we shift our awareness to our experiences and start savoring them?
We shift our experiences and our expectations.
Hence from "seeking" we shift to "Less is More".
And from "avoiding" we shift to "Difficult is Portal".
Let me explain "Less is more".
Take the example of food we eat.
When we are having our food and we really attend to its various aspects...
- how many people contributed to bringing this food from farm to fork,
- how the nature toils together to make this,
- how we are blessed than many more on the planet to have this,
- how the texture of the various food material feel in the hands, in the mouth, in the olfactory, in the gulping region
Similarly, when we are able to shift our awareness-es in a focused manner to many other things like... the conversation at hand, or the task at hand, we tend to savor them more.
- We will be able to speak less to communicate more and deeply
- We will be able to deeply listen to understand the other better
- We will be able to attend to the various aspects of the task at hand in a high-definition manner, and thus understand things in nuance and tinker with it in deeper manner rather than pushing papers around.
- We will be able to what Dr Barbara Oakley (Prof Engineering @ Oakland University and Curator of 'Learning How to Learn" course) calls "connecting the dots"...because one is able to on-demand move one's awareness in various direction and span and stability.
- We will be able to tap better in imagination...what Director Of Mindsight Institute & Professor of Clinical Psychiatry Dr Dan Siegel calls the ability to create space between thoughts such that it gives room for insight to emerge.
- We are able to speak with each other in a manner of Conversational Intelligence (Judith Glaser, Anthropologist). Where conversations are not about YELL-TELL-SELL but about Transforming one another ((((Judith and I had written an article 4 years back .. how conversations influence neurochemistry influences conversations influence neurochemistry ... Changing The Fabric Of Humanity (((https://drive.google.com/file/d/19LLhfvKEz54LUz-7buMkRA5y0vKcdN5W/view )))
I guess you would have realized by now that it could also help in ensuring that what we avoid as experiences would turn into "Difficult is a Portal".
Through use techniques of awareness, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, body intelligence, social intelligence, we are able to see beyond the superficial label of "difficult".
We then see "difficult" in a nuanced manner, peep into its intricacies, see them as "wow! moments" (in order to apply our abilities...because if everything in the world was already right, what would you and i do? Difficult is necessity of mankind...to grow...to flex the muscle of creativity, collaboration).
Loaded with HD Experience, one feels more engaged at work and in life in general. One feels the "naturalness" of difficulties, one feels the urge to solve, one feels the acceptances of failure and to learn from them, one feels the gratitude of opportunity to be at a job and to perform, one feels to need to use resources mindfully, one pursues aspects of fairnesses or unfairness in the organization/community in a more constructive manner, one feels that organization is a community and if it doesn't manifest as community yet, then one works towards making it one ; one can see the merit that the organization needs to accumulate resources but for the community and not for any individual ...
Those who are unable to have HD Experiences eventually end up getting mired in politics, cribbing, complaining, and not oriented towards solving and seeing the humane part of corporate journey and life.
All of the above doesn't mean that the organization becomes complacent. No! The Organization still exists in an environment, in society, in markets. And it needs to play by some of the rules of the game. But it can develop its own culture and its own ecosystem of internal colleagues, customer base, shareholders, debt-holders and external alliances...such that it creates structures and skills for HD Experiences.
Finally, there are adaptive HD experiences and maladaptive HD experiences. Sometimes when people develop these, they use it with a certain ethics which are self-serving, sometimes the HD experiences can overwhelm a person and shift their intentions and goals in life. Due care and community around could ensure that one's HD experiences are channelized for realizing one's potential and also being part of a humane yet prospering community.
Disclosure: Concepts are embedded in concepts. Hence some of the concepts could be covered only briefly here.
Meer Taqi Meer-Image Credit:
https://www.facebook.com/RekhtaOfficial/photos/a.2447182795304366/2551449271544384/?type=3&theater
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