Morbi Cable Bridge collapse has taken 135 lives. Act of God, or Act of fraud?
Elon Musk takes ownership of Twitter with USD 44 Billion, and becomes Chief Twit. Sacks the Board, Top Executives, and may be 75% HR soon. Twitter’s Blue Tick may be charged.
Brazil chooses 77-year Lula da Silva, in a close contest, to be its President from 1 January.
Munugode is now ready to vote. HP and Gujarat elections would follow.
Bharat Jodo Yatra, walking-meeting-talking yatra, may position Rahul Gandhi as a serious politician. Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi – will they forge a formidable opposition coalition, if not a winning coalition?
Is the work world changing? Are we going to see more of us unemployed because we do not have employable skills? What are the must-have skills, apart from 3R – read, write and arithmetic? Emotional Intelligence, story telling, creative problem solving, first-principles (analytical) thinking, active learning, resilience, stress tolerance, flexibility? Do not the poor, vulnerable and marginalized have these in abundance? But what about these – Leaders and social influence, Technology use, Tech design, Ideation? How do we get infrastructure and investment for trying these? Are we creating a new wave of poverty and inequity augmentation? How do we get de-skilled and re-skilled to be employed, relevant, and useful? Are we expected to learn these skills on the job, through self-learning, online and assisted learning? Investment in learning by organizations is taking a beating. Therefore, immersion, induction, internship and fellowships are the ways of the future. Are we designing right then? The pace of learning has to go up. We cannot say we take our sweet time to learn. We need to hurry up. Now. 6 months is the limit, isn’t it? The onus is on us to unlearn and learn, and not on our temporary employers.
What do we do? How are we useful? How are we maximising? How are we finding the pace and momentum? Is it enough that we give our time, energy and resources to the issues we care about? Will more others follow? Is it the butterfly effect? How do we choose the issues and give at least 20% time dedicatedly to them? How can we slow down with increased effectiveness, efficiency and impact? Can we give back significantly? Can we always have a vision, portfolio of strategies and plan(s)? If possible written, articulated, disseminated? Can we be sure that we love what we do? Can we be sure that we love whom the work touches? Can we be sure that we love people in our flow? Do we work with small numbers and do we work on a big scale? Even one can be fine? Can we do both, hybrid?
When the crunch comes we need air, water, food, shelter, entertainment etc. When the crunch comes, what takes us forward is coexistence. Coexisters are always there, physical, or virtual. Maybe a shout away. For give and take. For sharing ups and downs, gains and losses. Life and death. For fights and fun. For living together, laughing together, linking together, serving and leading one another, learning together, loving together. Can we coexist with and touch more souls with steady outpourings? Can we walk, meet, hug and still be unobtrusive, silent?
If the heart rejoices as we prepare to give, if the heart purifies itself while giving, if the heart is satisfied on giving, can we keep giving? Can we stretch ourselves, our boundaries to give? Can we give more, in more ways, in more spaces?
Do we know who we are? This body of flesh, blood and bone? This mind of thoughts and feelings? Can we begin this enquiry? Deep inside. Meditation helps. Desperation helps. Intuition strikes and we need to follow the intuition. Can we?
Yes, we can. For knowing us deeply helps to live, lead, learn and love. We are part of the existence and we need to co-exist with all ‘life’. This is the way. This is the flow. The flow of life, flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of ‘I’ within ‘us’ for coexistence co-living co-action in nature – sodhanayoga for 7L.
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