>I have often described insights coming to me as snowflakes falling softly on my head. I don’t know why i use this analogy as i have never experienced snow in my life. it is possible that the way i receive these insights are not like ‘wham’, ‘crash’, ‘zing’, but more like a soft whisper in my head. i was thinking about my mood swings and irritation and impulses and wondering whether one gets a hang of handling these things or does biological changes overtake who you are. Just at that precise moment “the whisper in my head” told me that actually i have always been like that, moody, unpredictable, impatient, with little sense of boundary management, volatile, enthusiastic, impulsive, hyper, enthusiastic, ….. sounds a bit like a teenager with raging hormones!! Except, I am no teenager, i am nearly 50 years old and this is by and large how i have been most parts of my life. i guess, in
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>I was working with an organisation last week who are in the process of bringing in internal changes in attitude, development of people, leadership roles and new paradigms in the organisation. They are in the areas of advocacy for change and bringing in social awareness, specific to young people. While i was working with them i noticed their extremely high level of commitment towards the organisation and what they believed in and yet, their difficulty in working with each other as one voice. what was bogging them down was not their personal interests or need for personal gain, but i hypothesise was their clash of personal isms. this may become clear if i were to write about a triangle that i saw was at work within this group. This is the triangle of three types of isms, (the credit for this frame goes to my colleague Ashok Malhotra who coined it), namely romanticism i.e. i wish my world was like
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