How Presentation Fits Into The Class.
The talk is concerned with what motivates and drives us. It focuses on what shapes us into the individuals we become, as well as looks at what makes us act the way we do. Also, it looks at the degree of control we have over our lives and its effect on our quality of life. Finally, it touches on how we can become effective leaders and influence those around us. This talk is important as it focuses on motivation and achievement of goals. Through applying what is talked about, we can be able to motivate ourselves and those around us, become active leaders and be better suited to achieve the course goals. The skills learned will also find real-world application in business later.
What was the speaker’s major point that you found most interesting or surprising?
The main contention of the speaker is that emotion is the greatest force of life, and if we get the right emotion can do anything. He further contends that decision is the ultimate power as we may know something and choose not to apply it. In the decision-making process, he points out three key considerations that will determine how the decision affects us. These three are what we choose to focus on, what the decision would mean for us, and what we are going to do towards the decision. The speaker singles out what we choose to focus on as the primary one of the three, He further categorizes focus into what we want to focus on at a particular instance and what we focus on in the long term. What interests me most is his observation that the defining factor on whether we can do something is not resources but resourcefulness. As such a lack of resources like time, money, technology, experience and contacts does not impede our actions. The speaker then goes on to identify the six human needs. According to him, these are certainty, variety, critical significance or having a sense of self-importance, connection or love, the opportunity for growth and the capacity to contribute to causes beyond ourselves. The only thing I found wanting in his talk was it focused on a lot of content, and in the end he cannot cover it all sufficiently. He glosses over some of the material, for example, the impact of what we are going to do on our decisions.
What was missing? What would you have liked to have elaborated upon by the speaker?
I would have liked a more in-depth view on the notion that we live in a Therapy culture. The speaker observes that we live in an environment where our past defines us, or to use his words biography is destiny. I think his intended meaning was our past only determines our future if we choose to live in the past. Still I find that the concept of a Therapy Culture a novel and would have liked to get a more in-depth explanation of what it entails, and the impact it has on our decision making.
What three questions would you ask the presenter and why?
The three questions I would ask the presenter are the following. First, he mentions that an effective leader can consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the invisible forces that shape us. What are these invisible forces that he talks.Second, he mentions that resourcefulness is the defining factor in decision making. How would he explain that? Finally, I would like to know how exactly the decisions we make impact our lives. These are the areas I felt I needed some elaboration.
SURPRISING SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS.
General Info.
Name: Dan Gilbert.
Background: Psychology Professor at Havard.
Presentation Topic: SURPRISING SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS.
Length: It runs for a duration of 21 minutes and 16 seconds.
How Presentation Fits Into The Class.
The talk focuses on happiness. What it means to be happy, the effects of being happy in our lives and if it can be synthesized or created. The author contends it can be synthesized and that synthesized happiness is in no way different from natural happiness. The importance of studying happiness lies in the fact that happy people are more productive, project the same feelings onto others and are a genuine pleasure to be around. Through the study of the matter, one can be able to influence those around him to be happier and more productive.
What was the speaker’s major point that you found most interesting or surprising?
The speaker raises some points that are interesting. He begins by saying that the increase in the size of the brain of modern man came with a corresponding increase in its complexity. The complexity, manifest in the presence of the prefrontal cortex, enabled man to develop an experience simulator through which he can simulate events and accurately predict them before they occur. More importantly, the speaker posits that happiness can be synthesized. That is to say, we change our world view to reflect and be consistent with choices we have made so as to derive a feeling of happiness from this consistency. The synthesis is made possible through a psychological immune sytem, which is a system of cognitive processes that help us change our worldview, and even then without our conscious knowledge. The presenter defines natural happiness as what we get when we get what we want and synthetic happiness as what we make when we cannot get what we want. Further, the author contends that synthesized happiness is no different from “Natural” happiness; it is as real and enduring as “natural” happiness. His final contention is that our longings and worries are both to some degree overblown, we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing when we experience.
What was missing? What would you have liked to have elaborated upon by the speaker?
The presenter points to there not being a significant difference in the way that someone who is paraplegic and the winner of a lottery adjust to their situation. The inference I draw from this is that the paraplegic synthesizes happiness and, as a result, is entirely comfortable with their status. Is this reasoning right? If not, what exactly accounts for the change seen here in the paraplegic? And what of the borderline cases, those paraplegics who admittedly did not become as happy as their counterparts. Was it because they did not synthesize happiness?
What three questions would you ask the presenter and why?
Questions I would have liked answered include the following. The speaker mentioned a so-called impact balance that is characterized by the experience simulator acting badly; that is the simulator tends to overestimate the hedonistic impact of future events. I would have liked a further explanation on the matter, detailing how it comes about, its main implications and how to correct it, if at all. Similarly, I would like to know if at all there are any differences between synthetic and natural happiness. Finally, I would ask his opinion on why synthesis of happiness transcends memory loss as seen in the case of the amnesiacs.
CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING IN THE FACE OF EXTREME LIMITS.
General Info.
Name: Navi Radjou.
Background: Business consultant and author.
Presentation Topic: CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING IN THE FACE OF EXTREME LIMITS.
Length: It runs for a duration of 16 minutes and 25 seconds.
How Presentation Fits Into The Class.
The presentation is about coming up with creative ways to solve problems. Resources are in their nature limited, and this forces one to come up with innovative ways to work with what is available to come up with what is desired. Similarly, a suitable resource reuse mechanism can be employed to fuel the innovation. The presentation has useful application as it encourages resourcefulness both in the classroom setting and in life in general.
What was the speaker’s major point that you found most interesting or surprising?
The most interesting concept that the speaker raises is that of jugaad. The author is a proponent of frugal innovation to solve everyday problems. For this he advocates the jugaad, which is the Hindu term for a clever fix employed to act as a stop-gap measure to a given problem, in contrast to the conventional business model of the West that encourages spending more and charging more. The Western tradition incorporates using large sums of money, sometimes running into billions, on research and development of new products. Furthermore, they typically utilize a lot of resources to differentiate their goods from the competition. Costs arising from these additional steps in the product development cycle are passed on to the consumer of the product. Transferring this cost is not at all practical since the purchasing power of consumers is waning, and natural resources are exhaustible. Jugaad recommends innovative and inexpensive solutions to problems. The principal emphasis of this method is human ingenuity, which unlike other resources is not exhaustible. Human ingenuity, therefore, forms the basis of how scarce resources can be worked to produce the desired goods. As the presenter points out, frugal innovation is a product of necessity.
What was missing? What would you have liked to have elaborated upon by the speaker?
My view is the piece is very informative and goes to great lengths to urge for the use of Jugaad in innovation. The presenter makes an effort no effort to distinguish between frugal innovations and those that are typically exhibited in the west, save the cost. Further, does he mean we should reserve the use of frugal innovation only when it is necessary?
What three questions would you ask the presenter and why?
The speaker contends that the constant pressure to provide quality goods and services and offer them cheaply is the fundamental reason we should opt for using frugal innovation. Does he mean to say that when there is no pressure to produce goods of exceptional quality we should not use frugal innovation methods? Secondly, what would he say to the claims that frugal innovation results in poor substitute? Last, research and development is known to be a real basis to gauge and find out the requirements of the consumers. In saying this, is the presenter proposing we do away with R& D?
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