Are we slaves of our dreams or are we free spirited beings looking to bring transcendent change.
A few years back when I was in college,a friend of mine gave me a video titled "School kills Creativity". I believe many of you have seen it, and most of you have lived it.
A few days ago Mohit Chandra from KPMG wrote an article about how Indian graduates are unambitious, within this he highlighted a few points. He spoke about how we are followers rather than leaders, how we don't question hierarchy and how our creative juices are limited to task execution rather than creative solution.
As a part of the so called Indian Education System and being helmed as leaders of tomorrow and drivers of our growth, I don't find myself equipped to take on this mantle. Do I lack the ability to innovate or am I lacking in self confidence. But how many of you can be that innovative spirits, this is not a question of ability but a larger question on cultivation of it. In schools especially in an Indian school we are taught to cram and throw up on the notebook to get marks, that was the ultimate goal. We were always taught to follow a straight line but never appreciated if we fell out of it. I learned in college how easily we could build a line following robot, which begs the question are we robots, have we been programmed. Don't misunderstand my basic premise, our country is blessed with such visionaries but relative to our population there are too few of them.
The Indian Dream
What is the Big Dream for these Gen-Next. Since I was in class 5th, I heard these words spoken so frequently they are edged in my head. The children are our future, they will be the one's taking the country to great heights. Somehow after 12 years that generation of dreamers has never arrived, it seems our elders lay down their hopes on each oncoming generation hoping a day will come, when these words come true.
So much of our workforce is working in places where their abilities and dreams both get squished. They pin our hopes on us, but they want us to work within the system from which they couldn't escape. But what they need to understand is the fruit does not fall far from the tree.So the only way we change is when our elders bring that change and drive the Gen-Next into believing in their abilities rather than stowing away their creativity for a static, monotonous and repetitive lifestyle, its a vicious circle.
Its a CHAKRAVYUH
A few years back when I was in college,a friend of mine gave me a video titled "School kills Creativity". I believe many of you have seen it, and most of you have lived it.
A few days ago Mohit Chandra from KPMG wrote an article about how Indian graduates are unambitious, within this he highlighted a few points. He spoke about how we are followers rather than leaders, how we don't question hierarchy and how our creative juices are limited to task execution rather than creative solution.
As a part of the so called Indian Education System and being helmed as leaders of tomorrow and drivers of our growth, I don't find myself equipped to take on this mantle. Do I lack the ability to innovate or am I lacking in self confidence. But how many of you can be that innovative spirits, this is not a question of ability but a larger question on cultivation of it. In schools especially in an Indian school we are taught to cram and throw up on the notebook to get marks, that was the ultimate goal. We were always taught to follow a straight line but never appreciated if we fell out of it. I learned in college how easily we could build a line following robot, which begs the question are we robots, have we been programmed. Don't misunderstand my basic premise, our country is blessed with such visionaries but relative to our population there are too few of them.
The Indian Dream
What is the Big Dream for these Gen-Next. Since I was in class 5th, I heard these words spoken so frequently they are edged in my head. The children are our future, they will be the one's taking the country to great heights. Somehow after 12 years that generation of dreamers has never arrived, it seems our elders lay down their hopes on each oncoming generation hoping a day will come, when these words come true.
So much of our workforce is working in places where their abilities and dreams both get squished. They pin our hopes on us, but they want us to work within the system from which they couldn't escape. But what they need to understand is the fruit does not fall far from the tree.So the only way we change is when our elders bring that change and drive the Gen-Next into believing in their abilities rather than stowing away their creativity for a static, monotonous and repetitive lifestyle, its a vicious circle.
Its a CHAKRAVYUH
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