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Learning From Three Worlds
Abhijit Bhaduri
If something bothered you enough to wake you up at 2 am, would you have someone you could talk to, whose counsel you could trust, who would listen to you and keep your secret safe?
How many such friends do you have?
When you make plans to celebrate a major milestone in your life, say your wedding, how many friends do you call for the celebration? If you are on Facebook, how many friends do you have there?
Chances are, you have just described the three categories of friends. I have asked these questions to several groups of friends and colleagues.
The word ‘friend’ has undergone a big shift. Most count the number of close friends in single digits. The number of “friends” on Facebook is the largest. The number we would call for a celebration is somewhere in between.
We all live in three worlds simultaneously. The virtual world of friends we make on the net, the friends we keep in touch with in the physical world and the handful of friends we trust that make up our inner world. If the three definitions coincide, so will the numbers.
I have often asked groups of people how they would draw a picture to represent the word “learn”. Most draw a book or a teacher in a classroom with a blackboard. This drawing represents the inner world’s definition of what makes us learn. The inner world is within our control. The school in the physical world needs access to resources someone else may control.
The course content in most schools and colleges is slow to change. At a gathering of management educators, the dean of a well-known college lamented that it takes them three to four years to design the curriculum of a new subject, design assessments and find professors who can offer it to students.
That often makes the content obsolete even before it has been taught. The basic textbook used in marketing by Philip Kotler has remained unchanged over the past 30 years. That may be testimony to how timeless the book is. Then again it could mean how long it takes the physical world to change. In the virtual world, we can learn from many sources. Anyone with a mobile phone and a net connection can access free content that we can use to learn anything from anyone around the world.
The Massive Open Online Courses make it possible for anyone to take a course offered by some of the best known Ivy League professors in any subject for free.
Twitter is my favourite source of learning. It lets me “follow” the smartest people who are continuously sharing everything from breaking news to ideas, insights and treasure troves of information. The virtual world makes learning “whenever, wherever and whomever”.
We may not always be able to influence the physical world. Your employer may need to nominate you to a class that you have waited for the past two years to join. That involves training and travel budgets.
If we only value learning in our inner world, we will miss out the continuous learning that the connected world offers. We will wait to learn from experts and not value the wisdom of the novice.
In a world that is changing constantly, the inner world is often a comfort zone because it is familiar and remains unchanged. The virtual world and physical world are often what we cannot influence readily.
Though it is easier to influence our inner world, it is often the slowest to change. The virtual world can often provide us resources that we may be denied in the physical world. All we need is to do is to decide to connect our inner world occasionally to the virtual world.
The writer is chief learning officer at Wipro
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Amsterdam Airport carries Hindu Vedas for passengers
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands’ largest and one of the world’s leading airports; carries Bhagavad-Gita, Vedas and other Hindu holy books.
These are available to passengers in the Meditation Centre, located near the F-gates, which is open 24-hours a day for prayer or meditation or relaxing in silence or holding a group service.
Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, thanking Schiphol, urged other top world airports—Singapore Changi, Incheon (South Korea) International, Hong Kong International, Beijing Capital International, Munich, Zurich, Vancouver International, Tokyo (Haneda) International, London Heathrow—to provide Hindu scriptures for its passengers as a substantial number of Hindu passengers used these airports regularly.
Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, suggested provision of Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Ramayana, Bhagavad-Gita, Mahabharata, Devi Mahatmya, etc., in the meditation/prayer rooms of world airports.
Prayer/worship to God was highly important in Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, Rajan Zed added.
Claimed to be “Europe’s Preferred Airport”, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport served over 58.2 million passengers in 2015. Jos Nijhuis is President & CEO of Schiphol Group, while L.J. Gunning-Schepers is Chairman Supervisory Board.
Source: World Hindu News (WHN)
http://worldhindunews.com/2016/01/30/51805/amst...
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Biggest smartphone myths busted
You’ve heard them before – in multiple blogs, articles and emails, in WhatsApp forwards and Facebook posts. But you shouldn’t believe everything you see on the internet.]
Myth: Active mobile phones in airplanes will interfere with the navigation and communications systems -– is deemed hazardous for safety and hence banned
Fact: Modern airplane guidance and communication systems are incredibly sophisticated. Even a full plane of active mobile phones can’t do a thing to displace their accuracy. If it were actually hazardous, you would have been required to deposit/checkin mobile phones before flying. The real reason you can’t make calls is far simpler: crowd control and safety announcements.
Myth: Mobile phones can cause fires at petrol filling stations
Fact: Petroleum gas is flammable – it can be ignited by a spark. But that spark will probably come from matches, lighters or static electricity and not your mobile phone. The fear is that a faulty phone or battery will cause a spark and fire but this is extremely unlikely and there is not a single verified incidence of this happening.
Myth: You should not charge devices overnight: It will shorten battery life and can even damage the device
Fact: All modern electronics with rechargeable batteries have safety circuits built in to prevent overcharging and therefore any sort of damage. Once the battery has been fully charged, it will stop charging on its own. The power adapter may continue to draw a little bit of power in some cases.
Myth: A larger battery means more battery life
Fact: Be it a cellphone, laptop or any battery powered device – the battery life is more closely related to how much power the device consumes. So if you have two similar cellphones, the one that lasts longer on a single charge is the one with a more efficient screen and electronics.
Myth: Private browsing on your cellphone can keep you safe from prying eyes, tracking and so on
Fact: Most mobile phone browsers have a private or incognito mode but this is just a mode that does not keep any tracking cookies or history saved on the device. It will not hide your identity, location, activity or sites you visit from the internet service provider (whether Wi-Fi or GSM), from authorities that may have access or from the owners of the sites themselves.
Myth: Don’t take a call when your phone is charging because it can explode
Fact: It’s true that there have been a few cases of mobile phones and tablets exploding – but it’s actually the batteries that caused a fire and exploded – not the entire device itself.
Typically, the issue was attributed to low-quality, aftermarket batteries, spurious chargers, dubious charging techniques (trying to charge gadgets from 440 volt lines, DC batteries and so on). If you use genuine batteries and chargers in the way they are supposed to be used, you won’t have a problem.
Myth: Mobile phones emit a lot of radiation – so don’t keep them in ‘sensitive’ areas like your trousers/jeans or shirt pocket
Fact: Any good phone from a reputed company has to pass strict SAR (Specific Absorption Rating) tests. Meeting the certification guarantees that the phone will not emit enough radiation for concern.
There is also no established correlation between mobile phone usage and illnesses.
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