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Think Tools for the Evolutionary Adventurer - by Srinivas V.

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The destiny of the ‘medium’ is to become the ‘means’ – a new paradigm in communication

The power of a ‘means’ is the message it communicates…

Character: the struggle of realizing one’s Ideal

Character is the ideal when “tested” by life…

The craft of human possibility

Is man’s physical frame itself a boundary? History has shown not…

Inquiring Mind and Solution Design Mind

Solution Design celebrates wholeness, and demonstrates the power of value…

Living in the Moment – The practice of “recognition”

Living in the moment is manifestation of the whole. It is real. It is here itself, here itself…

How to build Character Integrity? – The role of fear & discipline

Character is of the nature of renunciation and rigor…

The song of i-become

“Behold, The Alone Way
The Choice of Progress Alone
Welcome to Evolution Now
Man Incarnate as God Becoming…”

Creating sustainability in organizations– The centrality of purpose

This map shows us how “a fresh reaffirmation of personal and organizational purpose” is at the heart of sustainability design…

The World Gymnasium – Exploring how we can strengthen ourselves by seeing both harmony AND diversity with the eye of the Divine

What is real strength? The capacity to grow ceaselessly towards the final end of man. And what is the final end of man ? Those who have realized it say that is the state of Universality…

Transcending Power & Knowledge – The DNA of Enlightened Citizenship

Citizenship is a new mode of engagement and living in society. It means that power transmutes from self-centeredness to collective-centeredness (from power to control to power to contribute). It also means that knowledge transmutes from ‘knowledge as asset’ to ‘knowledge as enablement’ (from knowing to enabling)…

Why Purpose?

Purpose-led conduct builds in wisdom (flowing from purpose) with value creation (flowing from profit seeking).

What if an organization seeks to remain without purpose? The end is likely to be a little bit like the Roman Empire – a great organization destroyed by its absence of higher purpose…

Challenge Blindness

Challenge blindness makes us incapable of evolution until we dissolve the identity casing in which our assumption is held. Sometimes many generations pass before a community/collective recognizes that it has a challenge in the very way it collectively thinks about life…

Our structure of values determines our choice of ideal

People choose ideals that they find suitable. Further, the ideals themselves shape choices and values further strengthening their roots in the ideal – and so on…

What is laughter? – A way to be beyond structure

Laughter is the human response to change in context and therefore the rapid transformation of significance in existence…

What is faith in oneself?

Faith implies knowledge in action.

To know is insight. To act is experience.

To have faith is to believe in the world that is coming into being and to know and act out of that belief.
How can one believe before one knows?

To answer this question one must know what belief means and how it is different from knowledge…

Familiarity to Mastery – The 4 Stages of Conscious Practice

There are many levels of practice. But in all levels, a practitioner is one who consciously and deliberately intends to transform the state of his being…

Technology: A Citizenship Perspective – When Business sees Technology as an engine for human and social transformation

The future of technology depends upon our state of citizenship.

As a mere business organization we will be restricted in our vision of technology and its value to us in the future.

As a collective of citizens, we will be free to envision and realize key elements of a new society where technology is one of the platforms for such a change…

How to sustain the Citizen state-of-mind?

How do some people manage to retain the ‘citizen state of mind’ through ups and downs in the external world? They are able to do so, because they shift the basis of their identity. Put differently, they have a fundamentally different answer to the question, “who am I?”…

Designing a Strategy for Human Fulfillment – Leveraging the interaction between will, emotion and reason

Emotion is the engine of human transformation.

Will is the ‘axle’ of the human car, on which depends the safety and well being of the occupants.

Cognition is the chief strategist, the perceiver of opportunity within experience.

When Cognition is fused with Will, the effect is a quantum event…

Adaptive Competence – The dominant space for human action in the age of knowledge-work

Adaptive Competence is understood better in the context of two other forms of competence: “Generative competence” and “Delivered competence”.

The reflexivity between identities and mental models

Knowledge may be described as a map of the world we live in. Who creates the map? The creator of the maps defines what is in the map, what events are to be given importance, what outcomes are valuable, and which behavior is desirable…

Formal Mental Models

By converting mental models into Formal Models, we are converting them for a generic set of mental operations to a concrete, purposive, set of mechanisms used by the human mind to process and reform the data/ inputs being provided by the external world.

From Mental Models to Enabling Models

Can mental models open up worlds rather than restrict views?

The Discovery of Meaning – in the Structure of Purpose

A poetic journey…

The Innovation Mind

Where is innovation born? Can it be that by simply attending to a problem, wholly and uninterruptedly, a new state of being comes into place?

The Ideal of Fulfillment …towards a general model for living in the world

How does a person, caught up in the warp and weft of daily struggle engage with himself/herself and the world, such that he/she can mould himself/herself into a person living, breathing, and realizing the ‘Ideal of Fulfillment’?

The ‘what’ and ‘how’ of self-transformation – A Guidemap

Self-transformation represents man’s capacity to “evolve”. To evolve means to change one’s mindset. To evolve means developing new capacities in oneself…

Enabling Identity

We need to nurture both the outside-in and inside-out dimensions of our personal identity to function simultaneously, responsibly and effectively, both in the local context and in the global society…

Can we see Energy as “man in transition”? – An Evolutionary view of Energy

Energy becomes an evolutionary concept, when the cycle of creation, maintenance, destruction and interregnum becomes an evolutionary cycle.

This shift takes place when man transforms his concept of energy – from energy as the independent, trans-human, universal flow of life to energy as man in transition from lower energy states to higher energy states

How to know an Ideal?– The Notion of “Form & Function”

Form and Function are to be understood as a whole …