Part 3 - Rat Race continues in the corporate world too......and the need for diversifying self-worth
Kartic Vaidyanathan
Founder @ LetUsPlayToLearn | Social Networking, Coaching & Mentoring | Guest Faculty, IIT Madras, PPD
Links to Part 1 and Part 2 of the blog series are given below
Part 2 - https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/part-2-correcting-our-flawed-understanding-kartic-vaidyanathan-ihztc
Continuing into part-3, wanted to start giving examples of huge competitiveness and its ill-effects in corporate world. I had briefly indicated that what starts in school, continues into college and then into corporate world (all professions)
Here we will see a sample of examples of people who have managed to openly discuss about that.
1) I am sharing below the excerpts from Ravi Venkatesan's profile
//Over the years, he has led several companies and has served as the Chairman of Cummins India, Microsoft India, and Bank of Baroda. Ravi founded the Global Alliance For Mass Entrepreneurship and currently chairs The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)., He studied Mechanical Engineering at IIT Bombay, completed his Master's in Engineering at Purdue University, and got his MBA from Harvard Business School.He has also served as UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young People and Innovation, where he started and led a global initiative called Generation Unlimited - a global mission to engage and skill the world’s 1.8 billion young people to equip them for a rapidly changing world.Ravi enjoys writing and is the author of two bestselling books, ‘What The Heck Do I Do With My Life: How To Flourish in Our Turbulent Times’ and ‘Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere.’He was voted one of India’s best management thinkers by Thinkers50 and Microsoft’s Alumni Hero 2020. He also sits on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation and Hitachi Ltd.//
and then please listen to this BRILLIANT and AUTHENTIC VULNERABLE share of his by clicking the link below
2) Radhika Gupta - From her LinkedIn Profile
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Edelweiss Asset Management Limited
Now, read the story of Radhika Gupta's life story
Once again she confesses having gone through extremely difficult moments in life.
3) I am also sharing my own life story, although by no means my achievement is anywhere close to those 2 greats in terms of corporate high flying careers. Honestly even surviving mid management to senior management transitions was too much for me forget going anywhere beyond that. I had to get out of the corporate rat race to find a more meaningful path.
My own story of struggles in corporate that led me to a more meaningful and alternate path - thanks to divine grace can be heard from Beyond 9 to 5 interview
These are just some samples. There are plenty more out there for sure.
OK, what are the ways out of this? We saw the 5G approach last time in part-2 where "Gratitude" was touched upon. We will continue to explore more of that. But here is something else, that has been beautifully self-reflected in this article Diversifying Self-Worth
by Baishakhi Connor
One of the beautiful self-reflections that I have read in a long time addressing the root cause of the problem of linking self-worth to achievements.
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2 周Life can feel like a rat race. Choose to lead upside down ?? Yeterday,I attended a Veterans Day ceremony at my son’s school. The speakers were retired military leaders and they gave phenomenal advice to the students???? Persistence, consistency, and an attitude of gratitude will always take you far. Never give up. Do what’s right even when no one is looking. Dream God-sized dreams. The younger generations are looking up. Pouring goodness, mentorship, and wisdom into them will pay it forward 10-fold?? So when you feel like your spinning your wheels in the rat race of life…take a pause and do a heart check.
Actually, "Diversifying self worth" is a poor idea. Read that article. It seems that instead of fully investing in 1 identity, if you "diversify" your identity, you are safe from the inevitable disappointments associated with a "concentrated bet" on identity. It just looks like a coping mechanism. Also that author's claim on being "a leader" smacks of insecurity and delusions. That's just her bloated ego boasting. No real leader calls himself a "leader". One becomes a leader when people willingly follows him/her. How many corporate "leaders" can actually claim this? Leaving that article aside, the thing is even if one wins the rat race, one is still a rat and not a human. ???????? ??????? ?????? ???? ? ?????? ? ???????? says Ashtavakra Gita. We are pure consciousness and not our ego. Creating/building something or just simply being useful to whatever community one chooses to belong to is one way of getting closer to this truth. Then the focus shifts from I, me, myself to simply being useful or even simply being, just simply being. A little appreciated idea as to why the rate race itself in the first place is that our money is broken. Once the world's reserve currency went off the gold standard, our money has been corrupted. /1