 The title of the three sessions that I'm going to be taking three lectures. It's called presentation And I don't quite know what that means But we will see we will add some meaning to it. And if you really ask me, you know What is a real title for the stock because I don't know what title to give it during the When was it August? Yes, we did the training in August During the August session when we did the training for the coordinators We had given it a very special name and we had called it yellow car in blue light And I'm acknowledging that I didn't know I didn't know what title to give it. So, you know at the end of this talk It'll be great if you can help me in giving the right title, okay? So that's a homework for you or that's a quiz question for you or that's an exam question for you The exam question is that you will give a title to this particular presentation by the end of these 90 minutes Okay. All right. So that's one of the assignments. There are many more coming So keep your notebooks out and keep making notes because there are many assignments coming Sometimes I don't even know so you keep track of the assignment because I'll remember later and ask you for it All right. Here we go. So there are two agenda items Okay, one for today Where we get to do the work on you Okay, we get to do the work on you Because still we don't look at who is making the presentations or who is doing the communication There isn't much scope. I mean if you don't examine who is doing the communication then there's no power Okay, so we really want to inquire into and do the work So as to be able to redesign or have a new you be present such that we can move on and have We have you be effective in whatever communication that you committed to on Saturday. We will actually get to practice Okay, we will put you on a flight and What the details of the flight are we will tell you in a little little later in this session today we'll prepare you for the Saturday session and So those are the two things. Okay, so first today we get to work on you To is you get to practice on your presentation on Saturday. All right now both these agenda items require practice Okay, and if there's anything if there's one thing one thing and only one thing if I were to leave you with Between this lecture today and the two lectures on Saturday the only only only only thing I want to leave you with is There is no alternative for practice as a kid when I learned to walk. I Didn't even know the word practice But how I dealt with gravity which was out to make me fall all the time was to practice practice practice Make friends with gravity and it's the same gravity today that allows me to walk Then a little later. I learned how to ride a bicycle Same thing Everything I knew about walking I was trying to do on the bicycle and it didn't work Till at some point in time I practiced and practiced and practiced and I got access to balance on the bicycle And if you ask me today to give you that balance on the bicycle I cannot The only thing I can do is get on the bicycle I'll hold your bicycle and push you and then when you fall down I'll be there again and push you and fall down and push again and at some point in time You'll get balance and then at the end of it you'll say I did it Okay, so there's nothing no alternative. There's absolutely nothing that can replace practice So if you committed to fabulous communication if you committed to powerful communication you really need to do the practice Okay, as adults as grown-ups we somehow forget One of my most favorite advertisements on TV used to be with Sachin Tendulkar Okay, so on the screen all you see is a dim light and you hear a little bit of a sound which goes something like tuck tuck tuck Tuck and after some time you hear a mother's voice in Marathi saying Sachin go to sleep now Okay, that's Sachin Tendulkar mother has to actually ask him to go to sleep because all that guy keeps doing is practicing Okay, well other people would be doing even till he retired You know that and I don't know what he does these days, but I'm sure he misses the practice I'm sure he's doing work and he keeps practice, but there's no no substitute for practice So one of the things that I normally do when I'm live with you is at this point in time I would normally ask Are you convinced or should I keep going? But I think at this point in time I'm just going to stop and assume that you're convinced that there's no substitute for practice So practice practice practice so the opportunity today will be for practice the opportunity on Saturday and between now and Saturday Is going to be for practice. Okay, so I invite you to that welcome you to that Okay, I want to acknowledge a few a Few people and a few things The hunger project is a document you can get on the web. Just go punch in on Google the hunger project You'll see the documents for that. I got trained by an organization called landmark education and I want to acknowledge you as quote-unquote the students and Quote-unquote audience. Okay. I just want you to know that at some point in time The difference between you and me is going to disappear The student and the teacher will not be there anymore the speaker and the audience will not be there anymore Okay, at the same time I just want to acknowledge that we can only do it because you're there and we are here and we are participating in this entire effort together Okay, so this game is on because you are there and I'm here and we get to play together So I want to thank you and acknowledge you for that okay, so we You know most of us are here We really all we're doing is sharing some of the experiments that we've been doing with our teaching That's all we're doing okay It came by actually being on the court learning working with thousands and thousands of students on an average in a semester we have 700 students that we're teaching and we've been teaching this course for the last ten years now So and every semester so one semester we have 700 another semester about 350 so on an average in a year about About 1100 students ten years 11,000 so okay that's the kind of numbers in the background and so what we did in the first year versus what we do now has evolved over these years and One of the most beautiful things about this course that we teach is that there are anywhere from 10 to 15 Faculty colleagues who teach this course together. It's a cross departments and you know, so we When I'm standing over here and saying whatever I'm saying It's because I know that you know the 15 people who we've been working with and the 550 plus faculty at IIT Bombay Who are behind us? You know these are the this is that's the that's the ground we stand on okay So I just want you to know that it has come from learning from the students and you know experimenting with the students and that's what we're going to be sharing okay and But I require your permission to be able to share this and I'll tell you why I require permission Because we'll be really doing some brain surgery today, okay, so Really we're going to be doing some brain surgery Okay, so I think coordinators already know they have already been warned about this Insurance is not required But I definitely need you to sign a paper that says yes You have permission for brain surgery. Okay, so that's said in a lighter tone lighter note But I just want you to know that whatever we're going to be doing today is going to be brain surgery or nothing Okay, so you'll have to choose which one it's going to be I'll leave it to you Invite you to actually participate in the brain surgery. Oh By the way, you might think it's your brain. I don't know we'll find out Okay, so the nature of the work we're going to be doing today. Okay, so typically in Lectures you would expect some knowledge. So I'm sorry no knowledge some information. Sorry no information You want something for me? I have nothing to give so what are we going to do today? Okay? What we're going to do today is just bring forth Just bring forth Just bring forth Whatever's already there Where you are So you already have it I Don't have to give it to you All we're going to do is bring it forth You know balance on a bicycle is not something somebody gives to you right? It's already there It's just you have to access it and practice practice practice and you access it So we just going to open up a few of those Doors which have not been opened before so that you can keep in and if you like what you've seen there Go for it. If you don't like it. There are other doors to open All right, and then at the worst If you get nothing at least you get entertained with some stories. Okay, all right What is also available? What is also available is? That every cell in your body Could reorient itself To a new you this can be a little worrisome for some people Let me say it again That every cell in your body could reorient itself To a new you that's available You will have to choose between entertainment and the new you You will have to choose whether you're going to get on to the bicycle or not. Okay, so that's the name of the game so I'm going to just move on and Assume that you have made a choice and I congratulate you on your choice. Okay. All right, let's begin to examine How do we behave as human beings? Okay, what is in the background? What happens? How do we deal with things? By and large human beings are doing what is doable? So we're going to take a look at some of the things that we deal with which are doable and it's in each one if you're human You're tempted to do what's doable as opposed to I'm sure you've heard of the famous lamp post syndrome What it is is there's this person here Okay, this person here. He's standing under a lamp sometime in the night and He's looking for something here. He's looking and he's looking and he's looking and then his friend Who is passing by? Comes to him and says hey, what are you doing here? So he says well, I'm looking for my key and he says okay I'll help you find it and he also begins to look can't find it. So after some time he says okay, where did you lose it? He said I lost it there where here This is okay, then why are you looking for it here? He says I'm looking for it here because the light is over here Okay, so that's human beings ladies and gentlemen That's you and me We're looking for the keys Not where they are But where the light is okay now you might think that is silly And I want you to know that human beings are so silly Absolutely delightfully silly human beings you and me somebody at some point in time said God doesn't have a sense of humor And then somebody said what are you talking about? God made human beings and that's supposed to be funny Okay, all right good So So here we go. So we know we do Doing the doable versus doing what is needed to be done Okay, I think most of us are stuck in doing the doable and I'll give you an example for this Okay, a lot of times When we're looking at doing a project for a student or the student is looking a project to be done one of the things they look at is Okay, what facilities do we have and What time frame do we have and what is doable and let's do it Okay, so that way it's doable and you do it Whereas if you step into the domain Where you don't look at what is what are the resources you don't look at what is a time available? You actually begin to look at what is really needed and wanted and then begin to engage in it. It's a different game You should just know I put it as a footnote over there But the second one okay, it demands courage and it demands thinking and that's the invitation for the game Okay, we really need to be looking at what's needed and wanted and have the courage and the thinking process to actually then step into it okay, so Let me just ask a simple example because we're doing this course, right? So let me ask this question. Why are you doing this course? Can I actually interact with some people and find out? Yeah, let's do that. Let's find out. Why are you doing this course? Okay? All right, Geetam University Medak Hi, sir. Hi. How are you? Very fine, sir. And this is the most memorable moment to talk with you like this. Oh, it's a pleasure It's a pleasure. So answer my question. Okay. The question is why are you doing this course? So the first reason is I am an assistant professor teaching for many graduating graduates and myself I'm an Oasis Scholar, sir. So in the next few days, I have to go with my papers, thesis and everything That means my life for the next few years is combined with this all the technical communication If I can't learn anything from this and now at this point, I learn many things, sir So how to write an abstract, how to listen to something and how to get a summary of a paper So it is helping out me to carry out my research work very easy And I can tell my students how to identify a problem to carry out the projects, the small assignments and to avoid the plagiarism at the stage of assignments writing only All right. Yeah, excellent. Okay. Excellent. Good job. Yeah. Very good. Very good. So thank you for holding that as the context for yourself Yeah, please give a big hand to her. Please give a big hand. Thank you, sir. Okay All right. One more person. Thank you Maybe because we did a better approach to put forward things, like if you want me to write an abstract now, it will be easier for me to do it I have undergone it, but now the approach will be different and it will be much easier to do it Excellent. So what you're saying is it will enable you. It will actually help you in writing better and make the life. Okay, very good Okay, same. Okay. Very good. Yeah, everybody's ready over there. All right. Very good. So one of you please tell me one of you Please tell me why are you doing this course? Okay. First of all, IIT, Mumbai is a brain name and I really wanted to know how the faculty are like Second, technical communication as the name suggests is an appealing subject and I wanted to know what you think it could offer me And thirdly, I really needed a certificate All right. Excellent. Excellent. That's very great. So, yeah, certificate is a good thing. See, a lot of times I had this conversation with my students to say When you say degree or when you say certificate, what exactly does it mean? You know, it's like a degree is the degree to which something is hot, for example You know, a temperature is measured in degrees. So there's a degree to which you're in my development as a human being So that's great. I mean, I'm glad that you actually said that the certificate and it's one thing to have a certificate and quite another To be actually living that training such that people around you would relate to you as somebody who is a source of that kind of a training and that So what I'm hearing from most of the centers is that there's a huge commitment that you have for being able to serve the people around you You know, you are already in a place where you're serving. You're serving the youth and you are listening for your looking to see what might be Done in the area of training and development for yourself such that you could be of greater service to the youth and to the people that you interact with And the people you contribute to. So I just want to congratulate all of you for being that kind of a resource already You're that kind of a resource already I want to add to this I want to do my PhD but I was directionless After attending this program, now I am very confident I will complete my PhD on time Fabulous, that's fabulous and I'm sure there are many like you who are looking at the next level of their own training Some people looking at masters, some people looking at PhD and I very strongly encourage you to stay in communication And see if there's anything that we can do to expedite anything that we can do to forward that, you know, you should stay in communication and we'll do whatever we can So please stay engaged in the conversation of what is it that we need to be doing, working on ourselves, what practice, what training Such that we can continue to be of service to others Okay, so thank you for already having that in place and I appreciate it and it's very inspiring Okay, so thank you very much, right, thank you All right, good, so that actually takes away some of the conversations I was going to have Okay, we did some preparation for it and I think that part is handled, all right So let's just take a look at the next part which is typically, okay, typically when you're looking at students, when you're looking at students Mostly people would want to learn to get better marks, which is a good thing but sometimes the entire intent gets devolved into just the marks Somehow I want to be able to get the marks, somehow I want to be able to get the high grade, okay A lot of times it is somebody who's not good and we need to go into a remedial action, so all we're doing them, you're in the wrong place You don't have the aptitude for it but we will do whatever we can do so that we can do some remedial action over here, okay Both of these are not necessarily empowering, both of these are in some sense they have a certain negativity associated with it A certain something's missing over here and we need to do to, you know, make up for it, okay But let's take another example, okay, so if you look at watching TV, okay, most of us watch TV, okay So when you're watching TV, do you have the capacity to watch TV? Absolutely And what kind of even question is that? Of course I have the capacity to watch TV The only problem I could possibly have is that my remote doesn't have a battery, okay So once the battery is in place, remote is working, I can sit back on the sofa and watch TV No, that capacity is already in place, in fact so much capacity I can sit hours and hours and hours And I wouldn't even know that I've been watching so much TV However, if I suddenly come and tell you that listen, tomorrow you're going on an expedition to climb Mount Everest Do I have the capacity for it? No, I don't But that doesn't show up as a deficiency or it doesn't show up as a remedial It shows up as if I'm committed to it, then I'll have to go through the training Which is what I'm hearing when I asked you why you're doing this course You're not doing it to in any way for deficiency or for remedial You're actually doing it because you committed to something And you clear that there is training available, there's coaching available for it And you're participating in it, so which is fabulous Now we really need to have that be available as an outlook, as a context For all the people that we touch, all the people that we train, all the people who come in contact with us Let's take a simple thing like attendance, for example For students, the current context is that it is a requirement If they don't fulfill on the requirement, then there are consequences For not attending, do they come to the class or do they come to work with you Because they love to participate? I don't think so, I have my doubts So the real difficult question is, by the way If you look at attendance as a requirement, then on our part it is very doable But that as a requirement, if they don't do it, they don't have 80% attendance or 75% attendance Well, then they will not get the certificate or they will not get the exam or whatever There are some consequences to it, the moment you put that requirement for attendance They will come, very doable, very, very doable We do it, we do it all the time However, the more difficult question might be which needs to be done Which is the needed, it's not doable, but it's needed to be done What can we provide for the students so that the need for taking attendance becomes redundant? That's a difficult question And that's what I'm inviting you to The question then is, what is the context we are given by? If you really look at this, we impose the attendance requirement Because you and I have already had some experience with how irresponsible students are How the generation of today is more interested in playing games on the computer Or on their iPads or on their cell phones But not necessarily in the knowledge that we want to provide You know, we are bhandars of knowledge, right? And we want to give it to them and we come here But these students of today, I don't know what to do If you don't put attendance, they will not, at least for attendance they come Otherwise they will not come at all That's our context, by the way You and I don't see it But you know what, we've already written off the future generation We've already written off the future of India I mean, there's enough things happening around you It's not a very empowering context You and I know that and we've learned to live with it So students, we have a similar context We relate with students a particular way And as long as you and I keep relating with them this particular way Yeah, attendance seems to be the only thing that we'll be dealing with And we will not actually engage in the question of What can we provide for the students so that the needs So this is a different context This is a different question Is it easy? No, absolutely not Does it guarantee failure? Absolutely, yes You might have to fall from the bicycle 30 times And at some point in time you will lose count of how many times you have fallen You stay true to this question At some point in time, the seed in the soil will take root So what's the question? So what is the context? Here's the question, the question is What is the context that you and I are given by? If you don't recognize it, if you don't acknowledge it And alter the context, transform the context Such that our questions are then consistent with what's needed Then we begin to play the game, otherwise there's no game Let me give you an example of context in culture So this is an example which I learned from somewhere If you take a large hole with the carpet Large hole with the carpet, no chairs, nothing else Large hole, only a carpet And you bring in a Japanese person and you tell the person Sir, please sit The Japanese person will ask you, where should I sit? Because in the carpet, there's such a huge room Which part of the room do you want me to sit? Because there's so much place Should I sit in this corner? Should I sit at the back over there? Where do you want me to sit? Because I'm the first person here Where do you want me to sit? That's for a Japanese That empty room, big hole with the carpet He's asking you, where should I sit? Now you bring in a person from, let's say, USA And you say, sir, please sit The Japanese is not there, that's a different story A new case Again, empty room, nobody there A person from USA comes and you ask the person, sir, please sit The person will say, where should I sit? Because there's no chair over there Same room, same hole, same carpet, same invitation One person's cut Culturally, the person has got such a huge place Doesn't quite know where to sit because this person can sit anywhere Whereas for this other person, there's no chair over there So there's no place to sit, such a big room, but there's no place I can sit Culturally So culturally, this gives you a flavor of the context I'd like for you to just quietly read that And then after a minute or so, I will read it for you Please go ahead and read it Okay, I'm going to read it for you This is the context that you and I as human beings are living in This is where we live from Okay, this is something that is happening in our life This is happening on our planet Okay, I'm going to read this This is from the document, the hunger project Source document by Werner Erhan The details of the URL are given, you're welcome to visit Hunger persists Each and every day, 24,000 people die as a consequence of chronic persistent hunger Between 750 million to 1 billion people live in conditions of poverty So severe that they are unable to provide Unable to obtain enough food to meet their daily requirements This is not the kind of hunger that makes headlines As in a famine But a silent holocaust that continues day after day, month after month This is on our planet, this is during our lifetimes So you should actually, you know, just get that It's not that people are dying Because there's not enough food It's happening because it lives for us like, that's how life is You may feel bad for a few moments And then after that you continue with life because that's how life is There are other examples, okay One of the other examples for example is war When I was a small boy, and at one point in time I was a small boy Never mind my gray hair now I used to think, okay, I used to think that all adults are idiots Yes, I'll say it again As a kid I used to think that all adults are idiots Why? Because if they had any sense, there wouldn't be any war on the planet Alright, I just wanted to share the tragedy of it The tragedy is that now I am that adult The same, all adults are idiots I'm one of them now Politics, can you ever have life without politics? Come on, that's how life is Alright, let's not talk about hunger, let's not talk about war, let's not talk about politics Let's just talk about bathrooms in India They always stink You know in most of the buildings, you don't need to put up a sign that says where the bathroom is You just have to smell and you'll reach it Alright, so this is the time when you need to pick up a partner So at your remote center, you should pick up a partner This is partner one, this is partner two So at your center and the coordinators, please help me with this Please make sure that there are two people who are partners with each other Because we're going to do some sharing work now So it requires that you actually have a partner Would you please set up a partner and I'll just go from one center to another But in the meantime, the coordinators, please make sure that you have set two people as partners Okay, please go ahead and do that now Sushila Dhanchan, what is this? Kolapur, Kolapur, okay good, Kolapur, how are you? I like you guys, you're very well dressed Everybody's got a tie and all, I wish I had brought a tie myself, you know Okay, please, everybody has a partner? Yes, if you can see, we have already arranged ourselves two persons on a bench Excellent, so will you please say hello to your partner, say hello partner Shake hands with your partner Hello partner Excellent, excellent Now all the centers should be doing this, okay Everybody, partner, shake hands with your partner, say hello partner one more time Okay, this is? Federal Institute Federal Institute, yes? Yes sir Okay, very good, do you have a partner? Shake hands with your partner, so I know you have a partner, shake hands with your partner Alright, excellent, now you two make sure that there's no bag in between, go sit next to each other Go sit next to each other, remove this bag Alright, good, sit next to each other Shabash, very good, good job, very good job, alright good Hey, more partners are coming Alright, very good Okay, excellent, thank you very much, thank you very much, say, okay, next one, last one please University, BDT college, hello Alright, very good, so say hello to your partner, shake hands with your partner Yes sir, we are shake handing and we are partners, we are eleven members Okay, so if there is odd number, if there is odd number, please make a group of three, okay Don't leave a person alone If there is an odd number, please make sure you make one group of three You are our partner already I am not there with you to shake hands with you, okay Alright, make sure there's a group, alright, okay, good Alright, so now we are going to do a personal enquiry, okay We are going to do a personal enquiry And in the personal enquiry what we are going to do is It's going to be in your notebook, so if you don't have a notebook, please get your notebook Please get your notebooks in a pen, we are going to do some work RBS college, Coimbatore, okay, excellent, excellent Alright, very good, very good, yeah, please get your notebook ready Alright, so the work to be done is this, okay I am going to tell you some stories first Ready for some stories? Okay, I am going to tell some stories first and then we will do the notebook work, okay So everybody knows that about 500 years ago Earth was flat, everybody knows that You can't say it was not flat, 500 years ago it was flat Why I am saying that? Because everybody on the planet lived in the reality That earth is flat All ships would go, they will go up to a certain point And then they would come back, why they would come back? Because they didn't want to topple over Everything we did on the planet was consistent with the reality that earth is flat And you know what, earth was flat, were you there to see it? No, I was not there to see it, but you know what, evidence proves that earth was flat Because people are behaving that way That's story number one, story number two There is this famine which is going on in Ethiopia Okay, and some American TV network is picking up the story from Ethiopia Where the famine is going on There is a lot of starvation, lot of death happening And there is this little boy who is about 6 years, 7 years old Who comes on the TV on the camera and says something And there is this American woman who is sitting in the USA And she is watching this TV program, this coverage on the famine in Ethiopia And she gets very moved by this child There is something about this child that she is very moved by So she actually gets into the details and does the inquiry and finds out who that child is And it turns out that the child is an orphan and because of the famine that both the parents and the family has perished And he is an orphan So she actually does the paperwork to adopt this boy as her son Okay, so after a few months the boy comes to the home, the new home in USA And the mother is there to welcome him as adopted son The child is not knowing what to do, what not to do So he says, what should I do? And the mother says, no, there is nothing to do She says, no, no, but you tell me something I can do for you Because I am here, you brought me here So I must do something for you It's something must be there I should be able to do for you The mother says, no, you are here as my son So the little boy says, I don't know how to do that Please tell me and I will do it Okay, so that's story number two The third story, it's about a fish There's this fish which has been having some trouble with its eyes Can't see very clearly So it goes to the doctor The doctor gives some, you know, eye drops to put every night before going to sleep I don't know whether fish sleep or not, I don't know But anyway, so you know, put some eye drops to improve the vision, the clarity of the vision It doesn't work, then goes to the another doctor The doctor says, you need glasses, gives thick glasses Okay, I'll wear glasses, but you know there's still not clarity, can't see too clearly So that's how life is, you know, life has begun to now happen like that That's how life is There's a song in Hindi, I don't know if you've heard it But it goes something like So it's like, that's how life is So that fish is moving around, pretty resigned to life This is, my eyes are bad, I can't see clearly Then one day this fish is traveling, it's not traveling I mean it's basically swimming near the surface of the water And there's a strong gush of wind that comes And this fish gets thrown outside the water The fish gets thrown outside the water And for the first time, this fish is outside the water All its life, the fish has been in the water So this fish gets thrown outside the water And then just in that flash of a second, it looks down And it sees, oh, water And the next thing that the fish sees is, oh, the water is dirty So gravity does its work, the fish comes back into water The design of the fish is that it has to live in water But there's a difference this time The difference is that fish is not out to medicate the eyes or wear thick glasses It basically now recognizes that there is water around it And that the water is dirty So it goes instead to one of these hardware stores And gets a string and gets like a ring which has a filter on it And takes this string with the filter and starts doing that This way, that way around it So as far as the string can clean the water The water is clean and the fish can see clearly Now, some time after some time the fish gets tired, right? So when it gets tired, stops doing that And the muck begins to start coming in again But you know what? The fish is above the water, about being in the water So three stories So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you some notebook work And what you need to do is So just caution, okay? The hard work begins now So wear your seat belts, difficult inquiry ahead, just cautioning you So this is the notebook work, okay? It's a personal inquiry which you need to do in your own notebook Here are the three stories that I said One is that at some point in time, 500 years ago, the earth was flat The other one was about the Ethiopian boy And the third one was about fish and water, okay? So the question that you need to be looking at in your notebook is What are the, that's how life is for you in a flat earth You go up to a certain point and then you come back You go up to a certain point and then you come back Because the earth is flat, okay? So that's first inquiry Second inquiry is you are a daughter or you are a son I'll talk a little bit later about the mission, okay? But as far as I'm concerned, you're a daughter or you're a son to a certain mission The question is are you going to do it or are you going to be a daughter or be a son? In doing, somebody can tell you what to do In being, you'll have to discover it And that's the beauty and that's the challenge of the game And the third one, fish and water So you need to look at what's the dirt in the water that you as a fish are living in When you can actually distinguish water around you and that the water is dirty You can actually begin to clean up, alright? So these are the three questions I'm going to give you about ten minutes Actually ten minutes, ten minutes, five minutes, okay? I'll give you five minutes, five minutes to do this inquiry And then we get to share, okay? So then we do a little bit of interactive work So I'll give you five minutes now Please go ahead and start on the inquiry for these three questions Which are up in front of you in the screen, okay? I'll stop, I'll come back to you in five minutes, thank you The coordinators at the centres, you have done this exercise during your workshop Please help in making sure that it gets done Do not do it for them, they need to do it themselves, okay? But please be there and hold the space so that the work can get done, okay? So please go ahead, best wishes to everyone, go ahead, five minutes I think, you know, this is something that a lot of you would be dealing with confusion This is okay, I just want to acknowledge that as you're doing this inquiry There may be a lot of confusion and I just want you to know it's okay It's expected, okay? Very good, I may be rushing you a little bit but that's okay There's some, a little more work to be done What I'd like to do now is thank you for doing the work And we want to take you to the next level where what we're going to do is We're going to actually have you share with your partner, okay? That's why we set up the partners, okay? So say hello to your partner and take two minutes each To discover that whatever you are thinking is not so personal after all, okay? This is very common humanity that we are dealing with That some of the ways we relate with life are common And all of them are given by certain context, you know So why don't you talk to each other for maybe couple of minutes each And the person with longer hair goes first Talk to your partner now please Center coordinators, please help in the sharing with the partners This is something that they're doing for the first time probably So please help them in sharing with each other From the notebook work you have done, please share with each other Alright, very good So what I'd like to do now is I'm going to give some of you an opportunity to share Alright, PhD college, Coimbatore Okay, who would like to share, would one person like to share What you and your partner have been sharing? Definitely sir, I was sharing with the coordinator Regarding my third part What is the dirt in the water that you are living in The world is very materialistic And we are in this place where people are very materialistic That's what I was sharing And the other one as a professor I've got my duty to enhance the communication skills of my students I have to make them to be very confident To develop their communication skills And in whatever place they go, they have to communicate properly Excellent, I salute you Well done, absolutely well done Okay, very good This is Moti Lal Nehru, Allahabad Alright, what is it that you are sharing with your partner, please share with us Sir, we have shared with us that In case of the first question that you have asked That if we are living in a flat earth Then in this case we are thinking that We are not in a safe environment actually And there is no score for expansion And we are going alone without keeping in a competitive environment So there is no slope and we are thinking in a very low environment And we are not playing a game Or we are not playing with our life in a very positive manner So there might be lots of negativity Because we are dealing with only a very normal type of thinking process Rather than going for a very creative thinking Or a very creative environment process That's why this is the difficulty In living in a very flat earth actually Fabulous, you know what? Absolutely fabulous, yeah So I just want you to know that as you are sharing Everybody in the studio over here clapped for you Okay, thank you very much I actually opened up something for me to say Human beings are living in an environment which is very We are worried all the time What would it be like for us to live in a place of freedom You know, it's just amazing Okay, very good, let's move to one more centre please Okay, Goa College, hi Alright, so one of you please share That's how life is for you on a flat earth We have felt here that there is a note of acceptance about how it is And there is no spirit of critical inquiry Because we take it for granted And the way life is for us around earth We see scenes of corruption, global warming The possibilities of war looming large There is malnutrition and wearing climate That is the way we have perceived the first question The second one, shall I go ahead? No, I think you should, no, I think here's what Okay, here's my request to you My request to all of you at all the centres Is to please, the time I'm giving you is not enough Okay, there isn't enough time So what I'd like for you to do is Tonight before going to sleep Before going to sleep, don't sleep otherwise Okay, make sure that before going to sleep You write these down You want to complete this inquiry Because this is an opening for something And if you don't complete it today It will be a lost opportunity So please do not go to sleep tonight Till you have completed writing down Not just thinking, not just in your head You actually want to write it down As to what it is, and at some point in time I'll actually create an opportunity Where you can upload this on Moodle So that we can actually collectively Then share it with everybody who's participating So let's us do that So I want to give you a big hand Thank you very much, fabulous I want to set you up for Saturday There are some other things I need to do But I'll probably work through them on Saturday But right now I have to set you up for Saturday If I don't set you up for Saturday Then we won't have a game to play So let me just set you up for Saturday So we had two agenda items for today First one, we get to work on you Now you know that we just Not even touch the tip of the iceberg So we just opened up something In that inquiry I really invite you, request you To do the work that's required Of the practice, practice, practice That we had talked about This is the work you are doing on yourself Such that you become You have access to Being a resource for people So keep doing the work The second one is to actually have you Practice a presentation So it actually go out and play On the cricket field So I'm going to set that up now So the setup is actually about following instruction Most of us human beings Do not follow instructions We are horrible We are not designed to follow instructions We listen to an instruction Interpret it in our own mind See what is convenient And then do it thinking We are following the instruction So human beings are not designed For following instructions One of the examples I think I've given during the Coordinator's training was That when you go for parachute jumping The actual jump The actual jump With the parachute is not more than 15 20 minutes But they Before you go on to the flight To do the parachute jumping You spend 8 hours 8 8 8 hours 8 hours 8 hours 8 hours 8 hours For packing your own parachute You make a mistake You do it again You make a mistake You do it again You make a mistake You do it again You have to pack your own parachute They will only provide you instructions If you don't follow the instructions You pack your own parachute When you jump from the airplane Who will you blame? And in any case It doesn't matter It's too late by then Alright So this is about following instruction Actually you should just know That how, you know I'll tell you On Saturday we're going to have a lot of fun Okay Because you will see All of our humanity When we actually just ask the person To follow an instruction And they will not follow it Okay It's going to be so funny And it's actually hilarious And it's a lot of fun So I look forward to actually Doing that on Saturday So come ready Okay, come ready with a lot of Readiness for fun Alright So here's the ticket Okay, so everybody by now You've seen the video You know what the ticket means Okay, the ticket means That for you to participate In this particular flight For you to be on the flight You need to have a ticket And how you get a ticket Is you take one journal paper And I think I'm told There are 15 papers That have already been So you can choose Any one of those 15 papers Of your choice It could be in your own Subject area And after reading that thoroughly You may spend 2 hours 3 hours on that paper And after reading that thoroughly Understanding it thoroughly You actually take the essence Of that entire paper And present it in 5 slides How many slides? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Only 5 slides No 6 slides Only 5 slides That's a part of the instruction You do a 6 slide Your ticket is invalid 5 slides That is the challenge You might fail at it That's okay But follow the instruction There will be a 6 slide But the 6 slide Will have a quiz It will have a quiz question So the context is this The context is That you would like your audience To be able to answer this question By the end of your 5 slides So what we will do is You will have one slide Which will have the question And then it will have 4 options A, B, C and D And one of them will be the right answer So the audience will decide They've gone through your presentation They now understand the subject Or don't understand the subject Of the paper And then they will be asked To choose A, B, C or D You have to design that And then one of them is the right choice And then each center will say Okay A or B or C or D And we will from here monitor How many people, how many centers got it right And that feedback will be given to the speaker So the speaker will know Oh, actually the right answer was B But most of the people said That the right answer is C So man, I really messed up in my presentation So it's not about them passing It's not about them having done If they didn't do well, bad students Don't understand I was the great speaker No, no, no If they don't pass, you didn't do a good job That's a game And I'm inviting you to that game So 5 slides 6 slides will only have a quiz question With 4 options A, B, C and D With only one correct answer Make sure that the quiz Is designed to be intelligent Don't ask some trivial question One time somebody said How much is a mega joule I mean you didn't need to attend that lecture To answer what is a mega joule So make sure that the questions The question is consistent The quiz question is consistent with the paper And that the 4 choices that you're giving That it requires a little bit of thinking To say which is the correct answer One slide with the question The 6th slide The 6th slide will have a question For a quiz to the audience With 4 multiple choice answers A, B, C and D And I just requested that make sure that The level of the question that you're asking And that the answers are consistent With the level of intelligence That is expected in your audience This one is a difficult one The presentation should be completed Within 4 minutes 55 seconds 4 minutes 55 seconds Plus minus 5 seconds This one you'll really have to practice Now I'm told that you already Have a PPT that has been made For the elevator pitch exercise You're welcome to use the same But the context is different The context is not that of an elevator pitch The context is that of a quiz question That they need to be able to answer So what I recommend is After studying the paper If there was one thing that you wanted Your audience to get Which is actually the answer to the quiz question You design that first You design the 6th slide first And then work backwards To design the first 5 slides So that's my suggestion You can do it any way you want But that's a suggestion And then please When you come on Saturday morning Make sure that you bring the file With you as a PPT file And as a PDF file For any reason if PPT doesn't work Avoid any animation Animations are not working So please do not try any animation Just have it be as simple Without graphics as much as possible And one of the things I tell my students when I'm teaching is That be ready to present Now most of you are professionals You're teachers So I don't need to go into that But sometimes when students come in Shorts and chappals You need to let them know That when they go for placement They can't go like that They have to dress up Because there is an audience to be honored It's not about them It's about the audience to be honored So for that you need to dress up properly Then you need to dress up properly So that's that I think Okay by the way So any part Any small small small small Any small part of that Instruction Not followed Means the ticket is not valid Okay Now with you There are no consequences here But with the Students we usually play a different game Okay But I'm not even going to go there Because I'm assuming that Each one of you will have done the work And that there will be no invalid tickets So I don't need to deal with that Okay Alright A hint for winning the game You want to win this game There's a hint This is the hint Share the selected paper At least With at least two people Before you even start Designing the slides You want to share You want to have it be communicated This is so as to be able To be of service to them Okay So when you're sharing that paper with someone You're actually contributing to that person Make sure you take permission from that person Okay You don't just Can't go Hey you have to listen to me No Say listen I have a paper that I've reviewed I'd like to share it with you Can I take your five minutes of time And you know share it with them So do it for at least two people And you'll have a very good sense then Of what to have in the slides And what not to have in the slides Okay So you might think something is very important But it may not be clear at all So in having this sharing With two people You'll get clarity on that Okay So I just want to also emphasize There's a new you There's a new you That's going to begin to emerge And that new you Recognizes the need As a human being To take on a coach Great players always have a coach So do not even attempt Okay Do not attempt getting a flight ticket All by yourself Get a coach Somebody will say Who's a coach Where's the coach Where am I going to get Well Coaches are all around you Are you going to relate with them As one Okay So they're all around you It's time for you to recognize them It's time for you to honor them It's time for you to make promises To them That's one of the things That the coach does It takes promises from you And then you honor your promises Don't say Coach will make me keep my promise No You keep your promise to the coach Okay All right I don't think I have time for questions Concerns I'm sure you have a lot of questions I'm sure you have a lot of concerns I'm sure you have lots of ifs and buts So you're welcome to drop me an email All right So if you could please make a note of that And if you have questions, concerns Please write to me And I will do my best to answer Before Saturday Okay And what else is there There are two things to practice Okay On Saturday One is the ticket itself And second is I'm going to open up a conversation with you For what is the mission that you're on Okay So you want to start looking at articulation of your mission I didn't have time enough to do that today We'll deal with it on Saturday But you want to start looking at If you were on a mission If you were to articulate a mission for yourself What is that mission? Okay And that opens up something Very powerful if you do that All right And the last thing I want to do is I want to give you So with the center coordinators Please give a sheet of paper To all the participants Okay And participants please write your name And RCID on this sheet of paper And this is to be submitted to the coordinator After the exercise I just ask you to complete this exercise in two minutes And here's the exercise What do you claim to have learned today? Okay So please take that half a sheet of paper Write your name Write your RCID number And write two, three things that you have You claim that you have learned If you don't claim it It's gone If you claim it, it's yours Okay So two, three minutes to please write that And then I'll see you on Saturday If you have any questions once again Please write to me by email Rathasab Kore Institute Kolhapur Hi All right Very good So please tell me What is it that I'm asking you to do On the half sheet of paper? What are you going to do? What do you claim to have learned today On the half sheet of paper? Okay, have you learned something? We need to write it Okay, very good Have you learned something? Yes, sir Okay, how many, if you have learned something Raise your hand All right, excellent So that's what I'd like for you to write So please write on that half a sheet of paper Thank you, next centre All right, where is this? Varangal Aloori Institute How we can infer information from students Okay, very good So you should write that You should write So whatever you have learnt Write it on that piece of paper Claim it It's yours You learnt it, it's yours Mountain Ray on high All right, very good So do you claim to have learnt something today? Yes, sir, we have learnt lot During the morning session We learnt how to write a letter for fees waiving And how to write a letter for Reviewing of a journal Second time And how to communicate to the students For the various cadre From lawyer, middle and excellent cadre students And really in the afternoon session We have learnt how to think And innovatively And how to deliver the lectures innovatively How to think laterally Those things we learnt, sir Okay, very good So you know that the learning happened in your chair Yeah, good Yeah, through the storytelling Through the storytelling We can make the students to listen Very good So now I want you to know that you learnt Yeah, we learnt Yes, because you did the work Yes, sir Good, so write that You claim to have learnt Yes, sir Excellent, thank you So please do that Alright I don't want to say bye-bye But I have to say bye-bye Okay, so bye I'll see you on Saturday morning Thank you