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Can we become change-makers and contributors within the narrow boundaries in which we live? Is there a way to expand our contribution without changing our workplace or our roles? This Little Book offers a new way to think about this question.
Often we find ourselves driven by a mix of several motives leading us to multiple and often contradictory criteria in decision making. This Little Book offers a framework to organize and categorize our motives.
What stops us from accepting change and new ways of doing and thinking? What creates so much resistance to anything new? One simple answer to this question may lie in our stance of life. This Little Book proposes a shift from ‘Why’ to ‘Why Not’ in our stance to life.
How can we keep the mind ever-fresh? This Little Book looks at three approaches, each deeper than the earlier, that could help us experience cognitive freshness in all parts of our life.
Our identities – tacit or explicit descriptions of self – can sometimes limit our growth, experimentation & fulfillment with life. What can we do to ensure that we are not ‘stuck’ or frozen in our identities? This Little Book offers an approach.
Our measures of success – often well-defined external achievements – can lead us to sub-optimal choices and decisions. This Little Book suggests that maybe it is time we re-examine our measures of success.
A small-big vision that may mean a new equation with success.
A small-big insight that could change our relationship with the measures we accept “mindlessly” today.
A small-big change in our “stance” to life that could free us from excessive analysis and enable us to get things done.
A small-big framework that enables us to assess the quality of our motives and shows us a way forward.
A small-big “way to think” that helps us see ourselves and, therefore, free ourselves.
A small-big change that helps us become successful without falling into the “big success” trap.
A small-big change that helps us become changemakers without changing the externals of our life.
All of us seek new experiences in our life.
This little book asks us why? Is it because we are actually seeking something called ‘cognitive freshness’ in every part of life?
All of us recognize that we should be ‘creators of our destiny’ and not ‘victims of life’. This Little Book points us to the “how”.
We can fulfill our unique humanness when we awaken our awareness and use this awareness to resolve the conflict between the objective (‘what is’ in the world outside) and subjective (my understanding of the world).
As the world changes rapidly, many of us stare at the possibility of seeing our present skills and know-how becoming obsolete. Is there an answer to this challenge
Published in the Vedanta Kesari, 2014, this article outlines a journey from selfishness to Karma Yoga – the highest ideal for work in the Indian tradition, with Contributorship as the achievable middle step; and provides a 4-step roadmap to becoming a contributor
