>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
>making peace with my past ….
>I read a book long time ago with this title …. understood intellectually and made little sense emotionally. i think in order for anything to make sense to you “emotionally”, you have to be at that space in your life when you are ready to make that transition, or at least ready to face the “?” if i were to look at myself today, what am i ready to face? i think “delusion” will be one big word out there. I am not talking about the western psycho-pathological connotation of the word “delusion” but more from the point of view of experiencing reality as it really is, rather what i wish it to be, mostly unknowingly. today, i am pondering over many things … to begin with: – things that i expected to last for ever, … like emotional connect and romantic love. i expected this love to envelope me all my life exactly the way it started. but love
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