WHO KNOWS MY STORY BEST? Mindflex Musings

WHO KNOWS MY STORY BEST?

I have just returned from my session with the BMS kids in the Mumbai College which I spoke about in my today’s morning post. 

Anupam had invited me to conduct it, and I had agreed, without even my second thought.

Mulund College gets the Soft Touch

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The Choice: Transition and Transformation

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Awareness of Realities and Possibilities

A Time Comes when you Stop Worrying

Generating creative ideas: Take your mind for a jog

Metaphors are a good way to generate ideas. eg. How is a machine like a dictator? How is powerpoint like the Pacific Ocean? What is similar between a vacation and baking cookies?

Lateral thinking is random movement from one thought to another. A cake reminds you of sweet reminds you of diabetes reminds you of your doctor reminds you of your dentist reminds you of drilling reminds you of the oil prices reminds you of your bank balance and so on. Radial thinking is more systematic in that you come back to the original word or thought and build a web of words around the central idea.

Provocative Thinking

Authors who made a difference. A great reading list

A – David Abram; Russell Ackoff; Æsop; Valerie Ahl; TFH Allen; Chris Argyris; Aristotle; W. Ross Ashby; Attar; John L. Austin 

B – Per Bak; Mikhail Bakhtin; Béla Bánáthy; Albert Bandura; Basho; * Gregory Bateson; Mary Catherine Bateson; Stafford Beer; Walter Benjamin; Nikolai Berdyaev; William Blake; Benjamin S. Bloom; David Bohm; Kenneth Boulding; Stewart Brand; * Martin Buber; Malcolm Bull;

C – Lynton K. Caldwell; Joseph Campbell; Fritjof Capra; * James P. Carse; Carlos Castaneda; Peter Checkland; Patricia Smith Churchland; C. West Churchman; R.G. Collingwood; Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi;