Life Skills and Attitudes

Sensitivity
• Those skills and attitudes that are required for
success in a company or any organisation
(such as school, college, NGO etc.)
 Communication
• One of the most important of skills
• 3 types:
– Listening
– Spoken
– Written
• Sensitivity
– Feedback
 Teamwork
• The group is superior to the individual
• Synergy
– The whole is greater than the sum of the parts
–2+2>4
• Flexibility
• Egolessness
• Empathy
 Commitment to Deliverables
• Deliverable
– Product, Design, Document, Paper, Thesis,
Solution
• Time sensitivity
– Punctuality
• Dissent
 Quality
• Excellence as a way of life
• Giving your best
 Interpersonal Abilities
• Inspirational
• Conflict management
• Ego management
• Politics
– Sundar Pitchai
Values
 Humility
• All are small
• 1, 10, 100 vs 1 quadrillion
• Submissiveness to God
• Giving credit to others

Amaaninaa Maanadhena –
Be egoless yourself, but give honour to all

Humility is the foundation of all virtues

 Honesty
• Honesty is still the best policy
• Honesty vs Integrity
– Telling the truth
– Adherence to moral principles
• steadfastness
• trustworthiness
• Being truthful to oneself
 Attitude
• Outlook, Perspective, Way of looking at things

The attitude you have determines the altitude

you reach
 Right Behaviour
• Golden Rule

Do unto others as you want

others to do unto you

• Corollary
Don't do to others
things that you don't want others to do to you
 Dedication, Hard Work
• There is indeed no substitute to hard work

When the going gets tough, the tough get going

 Discipline and Responsibility
• Self-discipline
• Freedom - with Responsibility
• Dependability
 Middle Path
• Safe, peaceful and recommended by God
Himself
– Eating
– Sleeping
– Work
– Recreation
– Fun
• Pulling each other's legs
 Feedback System
• Mistakes visible to others, not to us
• Take errors as feedback
• Acceptance of faults
• Seek feedback periodically
 Anxiety Management
Karmanyeva Adhikaarasthe Maa Phaleshu
Kadhaachana

You have the right to work alone, and not to

claim the results of work
 Failure
• Learning from failure
• Feedback
 Learning
• Eternal learner
• Saraswathi
• Practice – 10,000 hour rule
• Humility
Continuous Improvement Process (CIP)

• Work-in-progress vs Finished Product

• Improving ourselves continuously – without
break, without end
More Skills and Attitudes
 Hard Work vs Smart Work
• Smartness
• Creativity
• Computer skills
 Goal Planning
• Long-term, intermediate-term, short-term
goal planning
• Measurability
• Documentation
 Self-confidence
• Dithering - causes
• Ego
• Over confidence
• Promises
 Motivation
• Energy
• Passion
• Positive Thinking
 Assent and Dissent
• Yes and No
• Honesty, Integrity
• Balance between Assent and Dissent
 Flexibility
• Adaptability
• Circumstances
• Opportunity
 Analytical Reasoning
• Logical thinking
• Diagrams and Mindmaps
• Causes and Consequences
 Creativity
• Inspirational thinking
• Lateral thinking
• Efficiency