Friday, December 11, 2009
Understanding people - Where do we begin?
To bring any change, we need to understand people. Where do we begin, in understanding people? I think we should begin by being self aware – being attentive to self, to what one does. Our immediate response will be ‘yes, we are attentive to ourselves’. The answer emerges because we know what we like, dislike, when to get angry, and how to react to a particular situation. This is only part of self awareness; important part is to know the reason of behaviour; and to have the willingness to dispassionately identify its trigger & behaviour’s appropriateness. Being self aware is important as it forces one to think and alter their behaviour for the better. When one knows about himself, he is in better position to understand others. I will end by asking the question I started with, where do we begin, in understanding people?
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where do we begin. if we are confused in understanding the self by becoming aware of what we are, then we should attempt by starting to think what we are not? because it is a known fact that people have strong opinions about what they surely dislike. so if we first shun all the things which we are sure we are not...the next step of understanding what we are becomes easy. there are two aspects of self awareness - to know what we are and to know simultaneously what we are not...
so we begin understanding of people by self awareness and begin self awareness by knowing what we are not.
jubi nema 30015
If you really want to understand people, get out of yourself first. You will get no time to understand people if you get so self conscious.
If you want to understand people, go and talk to them, find their likes and dislikes, find wat makes them angry or happy, try to live for them, try to do things they love, try to be their friend, try to be with people wen they need someone, try to be true with them, try to love them unconditionally... and then see how do you understand about that person. And you know the beauty of this process???? understanding other person will automatically make you more self aware!! So all your objectives are fulfilled!!try it once."Khud ke liye to sab jeete hai, dusro ke liye kabhi jeekar dekho!"
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