Career and Life Skills to Take You Beyond Covid-19 | Prof. Neerja Pande

Career skills would encompass those competencies which will help you build a dream career with your passion, have a life of distinguished achievements bringing you center stage and where economics of the situation has also not been disturbed in spite of the virus. 

Life skills would encompass a way of life or habits which will give you satisfaction in your solitude, add meaning to your life not by your own achievements but by the compassionate contributions you make in someone else’s life by helping them live their dreams in spite of the virus.

Mind you, both have to go hand in hand.

Five Propositions

1.   I think therefore I am

2.   I know who I am

3.   I link therefore I am

4.   I want to have or I want to be

5.   I am therefore I Think

First Proposition

 I think therefore I am

Thinking about your thinking is critical thinking

To the VUCA world is added Covid-19 and it is the D in COVID which has destabilized us, the fragile nature of life is being experienced by all through live media images of Death. In such times of anxiety and fear one skill which can definitely help us brave this storm better is critical thinking.

In the hyper mediated world during and post Covid-19 you must always engage your mind before you engage your mouth or mouse.

It is even more important now to think till it hurts as there is no history of such an unprecedented event and so no extrapolation of solutions is possible, autopilot will not work. You will have to think, Rethink, and think again.

Plato's Philosopher King is today's Thinking Leader. Be thinking students, thinking human beings, thinking professionals, thinking parents, thinking teachers. Thinking will help you move from reaction to response.

Critical Thinking, Lateral Thinking, Design Thinking, Creative Thinking - most required skills today and tomorrow.Read a book, register for a course, sharpen your saw.

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