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REVISION AND PRACTICE

Week 12 — Quick Revision

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Feed your mind, use what you learn, stay calm, manage energy and time, work with integrity, and aim higher.
Feed your mind, use what you learn, stay calm, manage energy and time, work with integrity, and aim higher.
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Week 12 at a glance

Feed your mind

  • You become what you read, watch, hear, and the people you spend time with.
  • Books: 7 Habits (Covey), How Will You Measure Your Life? (Christensen), Give and Take (Grant), The Practice (Godin), One Minute for Yourself (Johnson), Steal Like an Artist (Kleon), Thrive (Huffington).
  • Movies: Karate Kid, Kung Fu Panda, Lion King, Groundhog Day, Forrest Gump.
  • Speeches: Jobs (connect the dots), Pausch (Last Lecture), Rowling (benefits of failure).
  • Be a lifelong learner and a mentor.

Use what you learn

Story Lesson
Ice stupa (Sonam Wangchuk) School science, used, solves real problems
Two men at Disney World Entrepreneurial mindset: “What if we had this here?”
Two shoe sellers Abundance, not scarcity

Failure, fear and panic

  • Denial wastes time. Accept what you can’t control and learn from it.
  • Edison: every failed try teaches you something.
  • Fear of failure stops you from trying. Take calculated risks.
  • Amygdala hijack → fight, flight or freeze.
  • Anti-panic tools: dry run, pause, chess move.

Manage stress

  • A little stress helps; too much for too long harms. Treat the root cause.
  • Energy: body clock, sleep, exercise, food, deep breathing, meditation (just observe), journaling, gratitude, kindness.
  • Time, the six P’s: Big picture, Prepare, Prioritise, Plan, Be productive, Perform.
  • Eisenhower: do now, schedule, delegate, delete. 80/20 rule. Learn to say no. 1-3-5 rule.
  • Rituals: routines done mindfully and on purpose.

Career advice (Prof. Shiva)

  • Don’t regret for too long.
  • Integrity: do it right when no one is watching (Madhava).
  • Be a problem solver; take 2–3 options to your manager.
  • Get involved in your first years; act like an owner.

Closing advice

  • Lead: care for people; character is most of leadership.
  • Aim higher: success is a journey; specific, hard goals (Locke).
  • Stay honest; read between the lines; help India grow.

Practice questions

  1. Which book says “copy your heroes, give credit, and your own style will grow”?
Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon.
  1. Why does an ice stupa melt slowly?
It is a huge mass of ice with little surface area for its size.
  1. “No one wears shoes, so everyone can be a customer.” Which mindset?
Abundance mindset.
  1. What are the three F’s of an amygdala hijack?
Fight, flight and freeze.
  1. Which quadrant of the Eisenhower matrix should you delete?
Not urgent and not important.
  1. Name the six P’s of time management.
Big picture, Prepare, Prioritise, Plan, Be productive, Perform.
  1. What is the “true mark of a professional” in the Madhava story?
Doing the job properly when no one is watching.
  1. Who proposed goal-setting theory, and what did it find?
Edwin Locke: specific, difficult goals that people accept lead to higher performance.
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