Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Because ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters.’
Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.
This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – Mindset from the book titled ‘Uncharted’ – How to Map the Future Together by Margaret Heffernan.
In her bold and invigorating book, Margaret Heffernan explores the individuals, organizations and mindsets that aren’t daunted by uncertainty but seize the challenge of making the future for them-selves and explores answers to these questions, how can we think about the future? What do we need to do – and who do we need to be?
Mindset
The mindset at CERN(European Organization for Nuclear Research) is both tight and loose: rigorously committed to doing physics that matters at a level of acknowledged excellence, but loose in its responsiveness to new ideas and technologies. Plans aren’t sacrosanct, but accuracy is. This paradoxical combination of super-human scientific detail with human improvisation requires a mindset that is both open to change, to disconfirmation and correction, but which can function in a discipline that demands absolute precision. Such punctilious flexibility is a CERN hallmark, as critical to the institution’s management as its science.
Excerpt from ‘Uncharted’ by Margaret Heffernan
I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:
http://www.mheffernan.com/book-uncharted.php
Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.
Namaste!
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