Session 3: Unity of Being; Uniqueness and Diversity
Key learnings
Human emotions have been shaped by evolution. To manage your emotions, is to educate them. We however, need to step back in order to be aware of them.
Video file: Designing your life by Bill Burnet
- One’s life is the most intriguing design challenge.
- The design life lab helps you decide what you want to be when you grow up.
- The re-framing, curiosity, process-awareness, radical collaboration, and biased action are the cultures of mindsets.
- Re-framing: We do this because we’ve discovered that most people focus on the wrong kinds of issues.
- Radical collaboration: we find solutions to our problems when we relate with people.
- Mindful of the process: there are times during the design process when you really want to converge to test something and times when you really want lots of ideas.
- Biased action: We believe that no life plan you have will hold once you make contact with reality.
Session 4: The Nature of Freedom; Constraints and Commitments; Nature and Choice
Key learnings
- There will always be constraints, even in a free society. We refer to the restrictions as limits and limitations.
- The concept of free choice: Man is independent because he is wise. Animal instincts and emotional impulses govern how they behave. Despite the fact that man is cognizant of abstract knowledge and that every choice is motivated by a single factor, he nevertheless has the power to choose which factor will sway him.
- The ultimate point of freedom: Being free allows us to be the true creators and sources of good things, which is the true advantage we gain from it..
- Responsibility for our free choices: It is our obligation to live humanely rather than as plants or animals, and whether we like it or not, we cannot avoid this obligation
Session 5: Locus of Control and Responsibility; Social Beings
Key learnings
- Man cannot exist alone. He must interact with people.
- Man is a social being who can only exist, grow, and find ultimate fulfilment by interacting with other people in society.
COVID-19 experience of a parent and child
Parent Experience (mother)
She noticed some of the things she had taught her were still evident like manners and respect. Her daughter preferred to stay alone and spent most time texting other people. They only spent time together eating in the first two weeks. After the first week, she made deliberate efforts to talk to her daughter ad find out thigs about her. She was amazed about how she was a replica of her when she was her age. She noticed some of the things she had taught her were still evident like manners and respect. This was the most time they spent together other than summer holidays
Child Experience (daughter): She said spending so much time at home was weird. She ate as much as she could because she got limited portions in school. She talked about what she would have been doing if she was in school right now. She didn’t notice she was spending so much time alone as her mom had mentioned but it might be because she is used to being around her classmates that’s why she is always on the phone with them.
