Notes by Vastavi Choudhari
Review of Last Week:
Karmaparayana: I admire the one who engages in meaningful actions.
RAW (Reflection Adventure of the Week):Have a dinner conversation with your family. The topic or question of this conversation is: “How is whatever we’re doing now, making the world a happier and better place? Reflect on this deep topic and have a good conversation about it with your family.
This Week:
Anagla Bhasa Viduttma: I admire the one who is eloquent in English.
What does that mean?
It means we admire the people who are good and communicating.
Who do we become better at communicating with other people?
To become better at communicating there are three rules we can follow.
- Think before we speak.
When we are either talking to our parents and they are telling us about how their day went we might be half-listening and say something that you did not mean to say in that way and you can not make yourself very clear or something, but if we think before we speak it will tell the person who you are talking to either help them or make them feel better.
2. Try and see the other person’s perspective.
The example Shankarji gave from the movie Inside Out was
when Bing Bong the pink elephant who has just lost his favorite toy then Joy (one of the other characters) is trying to make him stop feeling sad by making funny faces, tickling him, and playing games with him just so that he will take them back to headquarters. Then the other character Sadness instead talks to Bing Bong about how he lost his favorite toy and just because Sadness looks at things from Bing Bong’s perspective he actually stops being sad and tells them where to go to the headquarters.
3. Give your full attention.
Sometimes when we are talking to someone about something we like we give our full attention t them but when it is something that we don’t like we might not give our full attention to them we might be looking at our phones or look outside but the person who is trying to talk to they will feel like they are not important. So when you give your full attention to something you will help the person who you’re talking to and you might learn something about from them, also even if the person is someone younger than you even though they are younger than you they should get your full attention from them too and maybe you will learn something new about that person or about other things.
RAW (Reflection Adventure of the Week)
Learn 5 new English words and teach them to someone else.
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Notes by Vishva Sachania
This lesson we learned to admire the one who is a good communicator.
Om Angula-Bhasa-Viduttama namah.
Practice
The three steps to becoming a good communicator is to:
1. Think before you speak- we played Taboo so we could think before we guessed.
2. See from the other person’s point of view- we watched a clip from Inside Out on how Joy vs Sadness would cheer up their friend.
3. Give full attention and don’t be distracted.
RAW: Learn 5 new words and tell them to someone.