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(I) INTRODUCTION.
(III) 7 STEPS OF SELF TRANSFORMATION YOURSELF FROM WHO YOU ARE AND
WHO YOU WANT TO BE
(III.I) UNLEARNING
(I)
INTRODUCTION :
Humans are not meant to stop growing. In fact, no living thing on earth
is meant to stop growing. We are all alive, reaching for the sun.
Progress in life is all about reinvention. I am going to preface all of this
by saying that reinvention is not the same thing as endlessly seeking
reward or achievement. There is a difference. Seeking an achievement
usually implies an "end." You win the trophy and then you're "done."
That's not what you want to aim for--because as soon as you say you're
"done," you are no longer reaching and stretching yourself, which
means you stop growing.
Whenever you find something about yourself you want to change, you
need to look for a way to reinvent it.
(II)
(III)
First, you've got to identify what you want to unlearn. What habits do
you wish you didn't have? What behaviors would you love to change?
What people / situations would you rather not be around? Knowing
what needs to change can be challenging if you've been engaging in a
behavior or way of thinking for years and years. Sometimes we're so
used to doing or thinking something that it doesn't even occur to us to
change it. But pause for a minute and look at the question below.
What's the very first thing that comes to your mind? That's the thing
you really want to unlearn -- and that's what you need to fully commit
to undoing. If you don't fully commit to the unlearning process, trust
me, it'll never work.
STEP 2: DETERMINE WHY YOU WANT TO UNLEARN IT
This step goes hand-in-hand with Step 1, and it's equally as important.
True growth and unlearning can only happen if you're fully committed
-- and to be fully committed, you have to dig deep to answer the
question: Why do I want to unlearn this? When you get to the "why,"
you'll have a motivating factor to keep you going when the unlearning
gets hard. For example, let's say you want to unlearn negative thinking
patterns related to body image. The reasons why you might want to do
this could include: to feel better about yourself, to cultivate more self-
love, to become a better role model for your children or friends, to be
more a peace with who you are, etc. When you have that "why"
question answered, you'll be able to come back to that whenever you
struggle with unlearning and encourage yourself. You might even want
to post this up somewhere so you can continue to feel inspired: I WANT
TO UNLEARN "getting too much angry easily" SO THAT I CAN IMPROVE
MYSELF.
1. Determine what things you value the most about your life.
Effectiveness, on the other hand, believes in meeting the end goal and
therefore takes into consideration any variables that may change in the
future.Effectiveness is about doing the right things.It involves thinking
long term it is meants in order to be successful.At the end it is focused
on the end
iv. Small number of roles and Small number of activities reflects a self-
centic and focused mindset.
Education has been a problem in our country and lack of it has been
blamed for all sorts of evil for hundreds of years. Even Rabindranath
Tagore wrote lengthy articles about how Indian education system
needs to change. Funny thing is that from the colonial times, few
things have changed. We have established IITs, IIMs, law schools and
other institutions of excellence; students now routinely score 90%
marks so that even students with 90+ percentage find it difficult to get
into the colleges of their choice; but we do more of the same old stuff.
Rote learning still plagues our system, students study only to score
marks in exams, and sometimes to crack exams like IIT JEE, AIIMS or
CLAT. The colonial masters introduced education systems in India to
create clerks and civil servants, and we have not deviated much from
that pattern till today. If once the youngsters prepared en masse for
civil services and bank officers exams, they now prepare to become
engineers. If there are a few centres of educational excellence, for each
of those there are thousands of mediocre and terrible schools, colleges
and now even universities that do not meet even minimum standards.
If things have changed a little bit somewhere, elsewhere things have
sunk into further inertia, corruption and lack of ambition.
Macaulay served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and
as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848. He played a major
role in the introduction of English and western concepts to education in
India, and published his argument on the subject in the "Macaulay
Minute" in 1835. He supported the replacement of Persian by English
as the official language, the use of English as the medium of instruction
in all schools, and the training of English-speaking Indians as teachers.
[1] On the flip side, this led to Macaulayism in India, and the systematic
wiping out of traditional and ancient Indian education and vocational
systems and sciences.
Macaulay divided the world into civilised nations and barbarism, with
Britain representing the high point of civilisation. In his Minute on
Indian Education of February 1835, he asserted, "It is, I believe, no
exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been
collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less
valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used
at preparatory schools in England".[3] He was wedded to the idea of
progress, especially in terms of the liberal freedoms. He opposed
radicalism while idealising historic British culture and traditions.Thus it
wipe out all the generic INDIAN education system like open air
education, Vaidic education etc.
"You can go through grief or you can grow through grief." ~ Tambre
Leighn
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