Friday 22 June 2012

Failure and persistence:drawing inspiration from each other


Times when the results are announced the toppers and achievers are always lauded but we ignore to see the flip side of this....the failures.They never get spoken about what if they rise like the phoenix from ashes or bite the dust nobody cares. A great sense of humiliation and expression of self defeat can come from failing an important test or exam.

When helping someone through this crisis, it's important to deal with the situation without resorting to criticism, rebuke, or making the person feel inadequate or confirming their sense of being a failure. Success is crucial yet at times failure can be linked to many an external cause, a state of mind, and not necessarily to any internal cause of intelligence or aptitude. Encourage him or her to look to the positive side and to embrace practicing persistence. Remind them that the only real failure is to give up too soon. If it seems that the unsuccessful candidate lacks the motivation or the determination to continue trying, overcome this by focusing on their previous successes in exams, tests, and other challenges, and the strategies they used in those situations.

Take a moment to help them identify the benefits of continuing to stick with their goals over abandoning them - this makes an excellent writing exercise as creating a list can help them to see things more clearly.

If you have time, have a look online for stories about people who have taken exams or tests more than once. You might be surprised how many people have done so! But more to the point, these people eventually succeed because they don't give up.

Failure is the stepping stone towards being more resilient,and it gives the person more humility and also sharpens one’s objectivity.

It's a chance to take up the challenge more seriously than self
Failure teaches more than success and it helps one to stay on track more often than get strayed by success.
Negative criticism always act as brownie points to resurrect the faults and not take them personally.

Typically in fact, a recent research paper by Harvard Business School states that failed entrepreneurs have a better chance of succeeding in their second effort than first time ones. Moreover, second time entrepreneurs have a substantially higher chance of raising funding than first timers. If so, can failed startup experiences be useful for entrepreneurs who are starting out now?

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Monday 18 June 2012

Face of Tomorrow, share the experience!!

All online educational platforms tell us more about any subject or answers a query, does so with the purpose of minimizing our doubts and widening our horizons,if so why are we unable to shed our inhibitions and adopt technology to answer so many of the questions for which we have fumbled and often pondered about.
A platform that enables us to come together and work together brings forth an idea of a big collaborative effort that can be lauded for years to come.
As somebody wise summed up that when we talk of technology the differences of age,gender and intellect all disappear,what remains is the willingness to experiment and explore.When we talk of sharing experiences human mind is so codified that the most intense of activities that engage a high degree of involvement can remain vividly in the memory as a lifelong experience  rather than a memory that is evolved through reading or remembering.
For that matter explicit knowledge that we record through documents, papers and other intellectual property is representational and can live and be manipulated within the digital domain. Converting data-to-information, and information-to-knowledge describes a value continuum of explicit knowledge.
Whereas Tacit knowledge on the other hand talks of wisdom, experiences that exists within minds, it cannot be reduced to the digital domain as a material asset or be manipulated directly. However, it expresses in the social realm as the response ability of individuals (productivity, innovation and initiative), and teamwork (communication, coordination and collaboration).We as humans should infact use this lifetime to innovate and share our thoughts and creations cause each one of us has a bit of a genius who has gathered dust but when polished will sparkle to the brightest.
In 1995, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, in their book The Knowledge Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation, presented the following model of how tacit and explicit knowledge interact in the knowledge creation process.

This figure explains the cycle of experiences can be shared only by the four factors namely socialization, externalization, internalization and combination that are more interchangeable, it is indeed a powerful mix that can effectively make our own experiences seem as a beautiful book, a leaf of which can be borrowed by others and probably add glory to their and our lives as well.

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