Worthology? - The Science of Human Worth
Deepak Chaudhury
Keynote Speaker | Architect Of Abundance | I Coach you to Package & Monetize Your Experience and build an enviable Personal Brand.
Have you ever wondered,
As the Architect of Abundance (Life/Success Coach), I have been pondering these questions for year together. And yes, today in this article I am going to answer this perennial question and I refer to this as "????????????????????? - ?????? ?????????????? ???? ?????????? ??????????".
How do we determine the worth (worthiness) of people around us and how do others determine our worth?
Whenever I dug into this topic, almost always without failure, I landed on a very simple question. A question that I have seen teenage kids ask their parents and old parents ask their adult kids. I have seen the same question being asked by managers to their employees / team members as well as employees asking the same question to their leaders / management of their organization. Same question is asked by siblings to each other, by friends to each other, and the same question is asked by husbands to their wives and by wives to their husbands. This question is at the core of how we determine the worth of a human being, ????????????????????????????. And this question is,
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In other words, my answer from all these years of studying human beings is,
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And I am confident that you too have at least once either asked this question to someone or you've been asked this question by someone.
The next question that bothered me a lot in this context was, ok if contribution is how evaluate each other, then are there different categories of contributions. And I found the answer to this question to be ??????.
If you take the purpose (what is this contribution for), then contributions can be categorized into three different categories.
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We celebrate contributions of this category, because it is most of the time a contribution done to us by a complete stranger. e.g. before I saw the movie "??????????????????" (2021) based on the life story of late ????????. ???????????? ?????????? I did not know who he is and what he has done for me and a billion other Indians. That's why after the release of the movie the entire country celebrated Capt. Batra as a hero. And same is the story with the movie "??????????" released in 2022 and based on the life-story of ?????????? ?????????????? ????????????????????????. There are hundreds of thousands of strangers like these in our armed forces who are ready to die protecting us and our motherland. As I said, we celebrate this kind of contribution and I call this category of contributions as ???????????????????????? ???? "????????????????". And people whose contributions falls into this category would include (?????? ???? ?????? ?????????????? ????),
While we celebrate this category of contribution from all these people above, somehow in our country we have failed to celebrate the contribution of our farmers. A bit of a puzzling finding, but I am yet to understand or decode this particular behaviour of ours.
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The second category of contribution which we need but not necessarily always acknowledge, is the ???????????????????????? ???? "????????????". You will typically see this kind of contribution being made by,
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And the final category of contribution is what I refer to as ?????????????????????????? ???? "?????????????????? / ????????-??????????". And this is also a contribution that we celebrate a lot. e.g.
So, those are the three categories of contributions when we consider the purpose of the contribution;
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?????????????????????????? ???? "????????????" &
?????????????????????????? ???? "?????????????????? / ????????-??????????"
Now that you know, '?????? ?????? ??????????' (and '?????? ???????? ????') evaluated based on your contributions, what should you do now, with this information? How can you contribute? Don't worry; here is the last piece of ?????????????????????.
When it comes to contributing, each of us can contribute in either of the following two ways.
e.g. as a father / mother when you decide to invest some time with your kids, you are contributing to their happiness just by being present, which in fact could be one of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone, your time. As we saw above, a doctor contributes to our life through their actions and behaviors and so does a soldier and a farmer.
But an engineer or an author contribute to our lives through their creations. The entertainers I mentioned above, e.g. Kapil Sharma they contribute to us through their creations, which is true for a course creator, a youtuber or a podcaster. All of these contribute to us with their creations.
But there is a very crucial difference between these two types of contribution and you should pay special attention to this. When it comes to ???????????????????????? ?????????????? ?????? ?????????????? & ??????????????????, it is dependent on us, our availability and once we expire these contributions will not be possible. Since this is limited and we don't how much of time we have, this kind of contribution is "??????????????????". You should be very careful about where you are making this kind of contribution.
When it comes to ???????????????????????? ?????????????? ???????? ??????????????????, it is time independent - meaning my creations will keep contributing to people's growth long after I am gone - be it a book I have written or a digital course I have created or a podcast I have recorded or a YouTube channel I have created or the business I have started. My physical presence is not required for me to contribute through my creations. The same applies to you. And since our creations are timeless, I call this kind of contribution, "????????????????".
That brings us to the end of "????????????????????? - ?????? ?????????????? ???? ?????????? ??????????". What I am eagerly waiting for is to share with me your thoughts on this topic and what other examples would you add to each category of contributions we discussed above.
I will see you in the next one. Till then, ?????????? ???????? ??????????????????????????.
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