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  • Indian Culture, Random Views

    Should we fear?

    12.28.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

    I have a group of 13 clients coming in from the US, Mexico and France, early-Jan, on a Learning Journey .  Naturally, they have concerns after yesterday’s events, with a lot of the western media talking of Al Qaeda and unrest and potential violence in the entire region.  I hope Pakistan stays calm and looks […]

  • Random Views, Youth Rap Insights

    From the mouth of babes … ask America to send it home …

    10.17.07 | Dina | Permalink | 2 Comments

    Am laughing so much!  I was just speaking with my little niece and wishing her a happy birthday.  I asked her what she would like as a gift - and she asked for a lot of lollipops and candy and gum  - stuff I had bought her when I was in the US in […]

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    Right-brain or Left-brain?

    10.14.07 | Dina | Permalink | 6 Comments

    Fun for today! Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? I could only see her turning right (clockwise), much as I stared hard and tried to reverse it. So I’m right-brained. Hmmm. Better get the logic and reasoning going! More tests here. [link via Bala’s Gtalk Update]
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  • Conferences, Random Views

    Getting to Deauville - WF07

    10.11.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

    Was welcomed by a lovely young girl from the organizers (I couldn’t quite get her name) and by Pascale Duvignau the pretty petite lady in the picture, from the Rallye des Gazelles on my arrival in Paris. Pascale drove Rena Golden, head of CNN International and me to Deauville, and although I nodded […]

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    Thought for the Day - Is what I do who I am?

    06.01.07 | Conversations with Dina | Permalink | Comments Off

    A picture named thought.jpg“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
    compared to what lies within.”

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    A reminder to reflect more on ‘Who I Am’ rather than on ‘What I Do’. What I do brings me success and recognition, both hugely motivating, but is it significant to who I am? Doing often makes me wear masks, which put me in my comfort zone - being rarely does.

    Who I am is often defined by others, who I am is how others see me. What I do is what people see and how they put it all together is to them who I am. But to be…. just be… is just being true to yourself.

    We often do what we think is expected because of who we think we are. Which is again perhaps in line with Cooley’s Looking - Glass Self phenomenon which suggests that “a person views himself or herself through others’ perceptions in society and in turn gains identity. Identity, or self, is the result of the concept in which we learn to see ourselves as others do (Yeung, et al. 2003)”

    And when we let ourselves ‘be’, it really can be so easy and is fun too. I want to learn to feel this difference and not just view myself through reflections in others’ mirrors. Really listen, understand the balance between the two, and learn to navigate the streams that let us flow from one to the other.

    [Image sent to me last year by a friend - its titled ‘Thought’]

    [Afterthought - I think I need a holiday :):):)]



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