Critical thinking classes introduced interesting concepts. Working of systems (1 & 2) was insightful. I learned about many biases of brain.The sessions have been interesting. The highlight of 2 days was the movie Oppenheimer.
This feels a lot like TOK classes I take in DP.
Thanks to both facilitators. Their contributions and sharing has been effective.
Nice informative sessions. Made me think the way I use to think and the way one should think to make a difference. Movie was nice. Overall a good learning experience and good to learn that critical thinking is not criticizing but to think with asking questions and knowing facts and data and then come up to a decision.
Thank you for such an informative sessions.
The eight sessions of Life + Love classes were a welcome break from the normal teaching routine with loads of interactions, sharing of personal experiences, bonding with the team, and most importantly, learning in depth about the various topics of Life + Love classes in a simple and effective way from our excellent facilitators – Utsav Sir and Nisarg Sir.
7 habits of highly effective people and their significance in our daily lives – the importance of integrity as well as strength of character (primary greatness) in determining real success, our various paradigms and the paradigm shifts, depositing regularly to our emotional bank accounts for building meaningful relationships, doing mindful listening, respecting differences to build a synergizing atmosphere, accepting death as a final milestone in life and practicing sharpening the physical, mental, social and spiritual dimensions of renewal were covered in a lucid manner through real-life examples, activities, and personal connections.
The importance of problems and the pains associated with them in building our courage and wisdom, practicing discipline through delayed gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth and balancing our emotions, defining love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth, myths of love – dependency, falling in love, collapsing ego boundaries and romantic love – lead to the most essential aspect about love – about it not being a feeling but a series of constructive actions through which we nurture our inner self and the external relations.
Marriage essentials – five key principles, eight mental stages, seven promises – and roles and responsibilities of parents in nurturing their children into successful human beings were also efficiently covered.
Overall, these sessions made me aware of the foundations that will help enrich my life.
I explored the basic principles of love and life which are under rated but play crucial role in our socio emotional build up. I also learned about shift of paradigm and about successful marriage life.
My learning From CT is giving time to system 2 and analyzing it to taking a decision. We, humans, have confirmation biases so I will be mindful of biases and try my best for fairness.
Not blindly believe in hard news, so I will search and know more about reality.
About God – God for me is, inner peace and strength. I believe in god and I think this belief can not be changed by me as I see god as a positive energy it’s given me strength and belief in myself. however, I am not believing blindly in any religious organization. I do believe in the existence of some power or a spirit above us. However, I do questions before following religious rituals, if not get the answer, then I do search and get the answer but I found for many rituals do not have a proper answer so I do not believe in that particular ritual or I just follow the ritual because of the happiness of family members but do not promote it and also the ritual doesn’t harm anyone Sometimes I follow rituals for my happiness not for any other reason. For me, God is the power that relieves my stress and who guides me it’s inside me only. Overall, whether god exists or not, for me god is my goodness and strength. I respect each and every person who follows any religion or does not follow any religion. I will not force anyone to follow any religion, as every individual can make a choice about what to follow and what not. Overall humanity is Univers religion.
My thoughts!!!!
Beauty of keeping others emotions in center and not just yours. Following these 5 emotional competencies of self regulation is kind of helpful:
Self control, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, adaptability, innovation.
Never knew….
“Worry is a bully. It depends on how much we feed. The more we feed the bigger it gets…”
Loved this..
How to deal with anger in one of the Sadguru’s video.
Stop-breathe-notice-reflect-respond.
Definitely trying..
Meng’s Magic Mushroom Mantra: [to be repeated silently for yourself when encountering a difficult person]
>Love them
>Understand them
> Forgive them
>Grow with them
Wanna try..
And lastly if you are angry count till 10 and if you are really really angry count till 100.
Count your blessings with gratitude!!✨️
We have been believing in God since childhood because our parents have been following us in the same way. Never felt the need to quantify or question the existence of God, but critical thinking has inspired us to think ‘Is God really there or not?’ Religion or our religious beliefs always prevent us from doing wrong things, yet there are riots or fighting somewhere in the world, so we should think that we should follow such ideas so that we are not harming others.
Our guest Vardan sir gave us a new direction of believing the right things by answering our questions patiently, I learned from him that it is ok if we do not follow any religion but it is wrong to blindly follow any religion without knowing it. He also said that sometimes we get confused while taking decisions in life, and then we can take decisions according to what is right in that situation. Apart from the Guest session, I liked to read Sir’s blog which is in detail of description about GOD & atheists. This session played a very important role in changing my beliefs.
We are grateful to our facilitator for this beautiful experience. and journey of Critical thinking which I can surely apply in my personal life & professional life as well.
With Gratitude,
Kunjan Gandhi
During these 8 days, of the workshop I have learnt how being emotionally intelligent is going to help in my professional and personal life, sometimes things don’t happen as we have planned and how remaining calm during difficult situations will help to overcome to keep our emotions in control and allow us to be rational.
These sessions were about something what we already know yet we tend to ignore them. Every task, every example and every situation felt so real. Many a times the the sharing got emotional but still everyone was equally engaged and spoke their hearts out. Learnt so much. Hope to remember all the important points when they are actually needed.