The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living - THINKING about My Life, my beliefs, values, philosophy and religion

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An Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living - My Beliefs , Values, Philosophy on Life, Religion

My Core Philosophy, Values and Attitudes

Why am I doing this?

• Welcome to the 21st Century and the Knowledge Paradigm.
• Existentialistic experiment for myself
  • To lead a good, meaningful, Happy life (What is a Good Life? What gives meaning?)
  • Sapere Aude
  • Eudaimonia, Arete, Virtue, Phronesis, Summum Bonum, Eupraxophy
• Dolce Vita, Hedonism
• To help others (How do I want to help others? Who are these people?)
  • Individuals (Personal and Professional Identity)
    • Troubled, lost, stuck in life (wisdom, counselling)
    • Actively seek meaning (religion, spirituality, philosophy)
    • Needing growth and change (Opportunities, image, career consultation)
    • Lifestyle enhancement
    • Advocacy advocate
  • Organisations
    • Organisational Excellence and Development
• Frustration. Disappointment.
  • in social interactions, unfriendly, Poor attitudes toward other people. Transactional rather than relational
  • In a job with people with no ambitions, especially teachers and leaders of organisations. Most are operational and status quo than improving. Leaders must be inspirational and motivational with ideals.
  • Institutionalization: Promotes bureaucrats
  • Rube Goldberg's organisations
• To earn some money (How do I hope to earn money?)
  • Freelance
  • Set up Companies with Partners
  • Full-time Vs Part-time work

What are my Personal Attitudes, Beliefs and Values

• Driven by Personal Journey of Enlightenment
  • Existentialistic Self Realisation, Self Actualisation, Fulfillment
• Driven by passion for Learning and discovery of Methods
  • 21st Century Enlightenment Based and using Knowledge and Science Research, Technology and Tools enhances personal Journey
  • Stream of Consciousness → Clarity → Proactivity → Fulfillment (Know-do-be)
  • To develop good Information --> Knowledge → Wisdom
  • Schools of thought: Philosophy, religion, psychology, spiritualism, metaphysics
• Driven by Social Development and Learning: Grow with people
  • Personal review, reflection and introspection Vs Assistance
  • Interaction and involvement of social circles
• Practical and Idealistic
  • Idealistic: Philosophical ideals
  • Practical: Understanding global context from multiple points of view: Historical, Geopolitics etc.
  • Approach through understanding institutionalised methods: 21st century Educational Goals: Practical,Relevant, preparing for the futury, 21st Century Enlightenment
• Focus on individual, but in context with society.
  • Respect individuality: Not to be on moral high-ground but to present and compare between different and contextual perspectives for growth.
  • Mindful of Cultural differences and hence traditions and perspectives (Different Value system)
• Relational rather than Transactional:
  • Professionalism, not materialism. Sharing of expertise not selling expertise. (Those that operate on transactions, use idea of relation or social credits), One to one is best
  • People should never be the means to an end, nor judged based on their value to you. People are not workers to meet your targets or tools to your goals.
• Relevance through values, context and relative perception.
  • Ideals and Issues are put into context where the individual can understand and see value in them. E.g. Environmental issues where corporations are blamed. Carbon foot print can be shown in relative terms, such as average footprint for self-assessment.
• Action through Collaborations (and growth) rather than institutionalisation
  • http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html
  • Greater Mobility: Organisations have restrictions and employees/members have roles and responsibilities to fulfill. Less bureaucracy
  • Sustainability through Passion: Build interest, run by advocates, for Passion
• Against Corruption
• Strategic and Sustainable , not popularist nor selfish
• Solve the problem through best available means
• Multiple Bottom Lines (Including non-pragmatic outcomes Wisdom)
• Closed Looped Value Chains: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pawlyn_using_nature_s_genius_in_architecture.html
• Middle Bottom Up Approach
  • See a gap, initiate community action, involve leadership buy-in and support
• Values First: Action through Advocacy and Practitionership and CSR
  • Personal Capacity: Personal action and Lifestyle example
  • Professional Capacity: Formation of community of practice (Practitioners)
  • Corporate Capacity: CSR
• Simplicity amidst Complexity (Beauty and Elegance)
  • Guard against cognitive shortcuts and quick fix solutions.
  • Reduce clutter by having elegance in projection and in dealings (lots of big picture scoping diagrams and personal uncovering of details)
  • Forest Gump model (be simple, make the best, move on)
• Influence through Motivation and inspiration
• Have fun and enjoy process (Driven by endorphines!)
• Significant Imagery (Off-hand)
  • http://timshel.org/timshel.php
  • Forest Gump
  • “See a need, fill a need” Robots
  • If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
  • Dreaming is a Private Thing
  • Ecclesiastes
  • Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
  • The Middle path, 8 fold way
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said, "If you want to build a flotilla of ships, you don't sit around talking about carpentry. No, you need to set people's souls ablaze with visions of exploring distant shores."

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