Summary of Session 1 – Shalini Lakshmanasamy

The best way to start is by thanking the entire team behind this event, I’m not taking this as an assignment either a thanking note to the whole wonderful team and those incredible speakers. Honestly this was one of the best workshop I’ve ever attended. If someone is reading this please read it with some expressions I don’t wanuh make my letter sound null… please feel the emotions behind my words.

Lesson 1: The Complex vs Simple debate
Lesson 2: The ability to look everything from a 360 degree perspective.
Lesson 3: Do not Assume

Components of a good story:
1)Simple
2)Concrete
3)Emotions
4)Unexpected
5)Credibility
6)Meaning

All these terms, stories and talks just made me to step back to remove those blinders, and to consider the challenges from every possible angle. This session brought me so much clarity, confusions, question and also answers.

Am I overcomplicating things in my life? Could simplifying my approach lead to better outcomes? Are the answers I’m looking for are already in my hands? What assumptions am I making that could be holding me back? Why do I focus on what could go wrong, instead of asking what could go right? I’m not sure whether this is read fully, thou I’m writing this.

Lemme brief the story of mine , My specializations are into HR and Marketing. As I’ve already did my HR intern, this time I thought of giving a chance for marketing. Currently I’m inducted as a sales intern at a very well reputed company .Initially I had no interest to take up the opportunity when I got an offer because I was not comfortable with the job role but with all the advice and compulsion from my staffs I entered, now its been a month and to be honest it was not a good experience or leanings here. I’ve been visiting around 50 shops daily and get nothing in return except a very bad experience which is unexplainable in brief. It feels miserable. I’ve always been a pampered kid and my family doesn’t likes me doing these stuffs, they are compelling me to quit.

I could have made my internship simple and easier just by neglecting the offer.

Is this the result of taking up an opportunity that came by my way? Should I not take risk? Should I always choose a known path and be on a safer side? Is life is not about grabbing the chances when they come around! and so the questions increased …

Just making a pause to all my questions the session I’ve attended made me step back, relax and realise the happenings that have gone so far, Why to choose a complicated path either choosing a simpler one. Firstly I understood what complicated and simple is? Whatever work was thrown on me during my HR intern it doesn’t felt heavy as I loved it, but even if an easiest job was given during my sales intern it feels heavy. This made me realise when things are loved, it becomes simple and easier … and vice versa . Thou! the content was explained in a different way in the session those terms(complex, simple) that he have used made sense and made me sit back to realise this.

It also made me realise Is my story more worse than the battalions ,more worse than the beautiful kids; adults and families which could have carried millions of dreams in the train without
knowing that they’re going to die in a train accident, more worse than the people who died in the landslides of Wayanad and people who just survived standing all alone losing everyone in their family, isn’t it true that life has more pain than death!!

And now the answer is I lead a very simple life.

Yes, everyone has their own problems, it is not comparable but, the answers we’re looking for are already in our hands we just need to look at them differently.

The message and the lesson from the session, don’t stop yourself asking what can happen start asking what all can happen. Yes, what all can happen I’m ready to face you come on…

Maybe the stories and thoughts I’ve shared could find irrelevant to the session but it brought a clarity in my path, What more can I ask for?

Thank you for putting a full stop for the chapter of my confusions and complications.