Listen with your heart!
Listen to the beat of your heart,
Listen to a child laugh
Listen to your Ma and Pa speak
Listen to an elderly's stories
Listen to the birds and
Listen to the gurgle of a stream
Listen to love!
The Spotlight Session, Thinking out of the Box with keynote speaker, Yossi Ghinsberg aptly made me realise one thing; I am not pushing myself to the extreme level; the potentials bestowed upon me are but dormant! Yossi Ghinsberg, a survivor in the wilds, made us squirm as he related gory stories of his endless days in the wild and his survival strategies, which included living off wild berries, snails and edible plants.
Adora Svitak, the adorable 16 year old who is already an internationally acclaimed author, a teacher and an activist, goes around the world making adults understand how important it is to learn from children and young people. Her book "How adults can learn from children" has been widely praised for the simple way in which she portrays the mind of a child and its dreams to see a different world.
Listen to the beat of your heart,
Listen to a child laugh
Listen to your Ma and Pa speak
Listen to an elderly's stories
Listen to the birds and
Listen to the gurgle of a stream
Listen to love!
Listening is an art which very few have inculcated. We all, with an exasperated look on our faces, wait for our turn to speak, while the other person is speaking. We hardly hear the words coming from the speaker only because we are so involved and wrought in our own thoughts of what we are going to speak. However, over the years, I have found it extremely relaxing to listen to someone speak while I sat back and reveled at the exhilarating feeling. It is comforting that I no longer wait for my turn to speak but just listen; listen and learn.
INFOCOM 2013 at Kolkata was quite a learning experience. Three days, endless technical sessions and panel discussions and the listening 'sessions' left me a lot wiser than when I left Guwahati.
Jamling Tenzing Norgay, an International Motivational speaker and a celebrated mountaineer left every one of the 200 odd persons in the audience wanting for more as he completed an exciting forty minute deliberation of his mountaineering expedition in the Everest and how the Hollywood film of the same name was shot at a mind-boggling altitude in the snow-capped terrains. His simple, yet deliciously deliberate attempt at synchronising real life events to his scaling skills made us all the more confident about Climbing our Own Everest.
The Spotlight Session, Thinking out of the Box with keynote speaker, Yossi Ghinsberg aptly made me realise one thing; I am not pushing myself to the extreme level; the potentials bestowed upon me are but dormant! Yossi Ghinsberg, a survivor in the wilds, made us squirm as he related gory stories of his endless days in the wild and his survival strategies, which included living off wild berries, snails and edible plants. 
Adora Svitak, the adorable 16 year old who is already an internationally acclaimed author, a teacher and an activist, goes around the world making adults understand how important it is to learn from children and young people. Her book "How adults can learn from children" has been widely praised for the simple way in which she portrays the mind of a child and its dreams to see a different world.
All in all, a learning lesson for me in the three days of the conference.
"I listened to my heart and I saw love."
