1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,340 Good morning wonderful people how are you are doing today? I just wanted to do a quick 2 00:00:04,340 --> 00:00:09,820 screen share read out points to you which I made for leadership, seven points of leadership 3 00:00:09,820 --> 00:00:15,100 which we can draw from nature. Now this I personally used in my career as an engineer 4 00:00:15,100 --> 00:00:21,000 and it helped me a lot. The first point, a wise man said truthfully if you teach a person 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,860 only to use a hammer all he or she will see is nails everywhere. Be careful about the 6 00:00:26,860 --> 00:00:32,840 kind of tools you use or model you use. That is what it means. So I had to carefully choose 7 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:38,080 what model I wanted to bring and live like in my position of leadership at work. What 8 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:43,720 kind of model do I want to follow? The one which looks at the wild side sees only hunters 9 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:49,880 and prey everywhere or ones which are more beneficial. Is there some model in nature? 10 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:55,320 We are talking about nature here which I can use. I tried the forest based model for myself 11 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:00,480 in my career which I found very helpful. I will share seven points with you now. 12 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:06,440 First point, plants and trees do not fight for survival. Two different plants or bushes 13 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:11,640 or trees can be quietly growing next to each other flowering, bearing fruit, giving out 14 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,840 new leaves however they grow without fuss or without attacking or putting one another 15 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:21,920 down. Which basically says no competition or scarcity in nature. This is what it told 16 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:27,760 me. This is because they take all their sustenance from a common source. They take all from a 17 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:33,000 common place. There is the earth itself and they are content doing that. They are self 18 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,360 assured. The truth which stands by itself without the need for endorsement from somebody 19 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:43,000 else. They have no issue of self-worth. That life will be sustained and grow and bloom 20 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:48,920 as the dirt of the earth knows who is here, what fruit they need. I have used this approach 21 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:53,400 in my daily work even as an engineer to get out of survival and have a more benevolent 22 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:59,200 approach to people around me. People tasks anything. Not a competition mindset which 23 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:05,160 is like the jungle you are always looking for, praise everywhere. That is the competition 24 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:12,160 mindset which is inherently violent in and of itself. If you ask me, competition is violence 25 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:17,640 and which leads to promoting non-cooperation between people. People do not cooperate with 26 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:22,960 each other and they are competing. This is why invariably they use phrases in the corporate 27 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:28,240 culture like survival of the fittest. It is a jungle out there. Which side of nature do 28 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:34,600 you choose to embrace as a leader? Number two, no two plants or trees are alike. Some 29 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:39,120 may flower, some do not. Each grows in its own physicality and never compares itself 30 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:45,240 to the one next to it. Observing this inform me that no two humans are alike and that is 31 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:51,160 beautiful in its own way, in and of it is. Without me trying to compensate, convert, 32 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:57,040 teach or preach to another with who I work. There is a piece of availability of self with 33 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:03,360 this which I found. It is possible here which is both accepting and harmonizing not homogenizing. 34 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:08,000 Big difference there. Or wanting all to be the same. No two people are the same. Not even 35 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:14,080 siblings are the same. Which would you rather choose as a leader? To work in acceptance or 36 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:18,560 try to create a homogenous environment which is against the very law of nature. Just look 37 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:23,280 around you. Nothing is same in nature. And it is not going to happen anyway. It does 38 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:29,120 not matter how hard you try. Number three, no two flowers or fruits are alike. Neither 39 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:36,760 do they bloom in the same season nor need the same kind of watering, manure to nurture. 40 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:42,480 Each plant is different. Some need less water. Desert plants need less water. I use this 41 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:47,600 principle of nature to understand deeply in me that no two humans bloom or grow to their 42 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:53,800 personal happiness or in their lives in the same way. Each one has a different color of 43 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:59,400 petal to show which is talents. A different season of life or years which is the maturity 44 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:05,200 cycles we speak of in astrology in which they come to bloom and each human needs a different 45 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:12,200 kind of nurturing, caring, encouragement, style to work. Each one is unique. An individual 46 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:18,200 to them alone which allowed me to benefit the acceptance of things the way they were, 47 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:25,160 not as I needed them to be. Number four, all plants, all types of plants, 48 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:30,640 trees, crops are needed to keep the land fertile. When the tree shed leaves, fruit branches, 49 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:38,880 they become part of earth. They become part of the soil. Different ones do it all together. 50 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:44,320 In their death, nature becomes a part of the greater life of earth. What dies is a tree 51 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:49,800 as grass becomes a part of earth to nurture another life. 52 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:54,240 So from this principle of nature, helped me see and appreciate the greater picture, the 53 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,640 greater reality, the meaning of the projects I was working on as an engineer. I worked 54 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:05,120 as an engineer in the oil and gas industry. So it helped me to see that the fuel I was 55 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:10,840 bringing to the world, oil and gas, is maybe something that I will not use personally, 56 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:17,400 that fuel which I am extracting from the ground. But somewhere, someone is using that and that 57 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:23,200 silent greater thread of life and to be part of it was contentment and satisfaction enough 58 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:29,080 for me. I had to kind of cultivate this understanding that all are needed. Doesn't matter how uniquely 59 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:34,320 different each one is in a team. Yet it is that very uniqueness which sustains the very 60 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:39,800 soil for all the future generations to come and grow. 61 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:46,600 Number 5. Some fruits are poisonous and can kill you. Not all fruits are good for me. 62 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:51,040 This principle taught me that some people can be venomous, attacking, aggressive, without 63 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:57,600 cause or generally toxic behaviors. We all see this. I need not engage with them that 64 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:03,120 part of them. It is their poison to resolve themselves. That is really up to the individual 65 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:08,040 to resolve their own shadow side, their own personal psychological wounds and etc. etc. 66 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:14,680 which makes them toxic. I learnt to disengage with their energy easily this way. I wouldn't 67 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,080 carry their energy back with me after the work period is over. Not into my personal 68 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:25,440 life. Let them be as they are. Let them deal with their own emotions or whatever is going 69 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:30,640 on in their life. So I do not harbor their toxic energy in my systems and emotions each 70 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:38,640 day. Leaving them be basically. Hoping that some later years they will get over there. 71 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:44,800 Whatever was troubling them in their life. Number 6. Every flower blooms not just for 72 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:51,120 our enjoyment as humans but as a means for attracting the bees for pollination and offering 73 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:57,560 the bees nectar as a reward, as the attraction. This principle taught me that there is nothing 74 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:03,120 inherent function even in the display of beauty which is harmonious in all ways. Even in beautiful 75 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:11,040 display there is a purpose, there is a cause embedded there. And it is not just a singular 76 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:17,080 one. That nectar of life is in every bloom. Understand this metaphorically as a meaning 77 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:23,840 which you can translate to humans. Every person, every activity is not singular. I have just 78 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:28,560 to find what is it that is fulfilling to me personally so that I am more able to bloom 79 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:33,160 and shine in whatever I bring to the table. Be supportive of every potential bloom. It 80 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:38,280 means every human that I am working with, my team as a team leader, I was in charge 81 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:45,520 of the team. So I have to take care of each one's blooming. Only for their own unique 82 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:51,560 blooming is the forest able to be. The forest is comprised of everything. All kinds of plants, 83 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:59,200 trees, bushes, you name it. Last, number seven, some grow to mighty oaks while some remain 84 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,800 grass all their life and each is happy that way. Grass is happy to be, grass oak is happy 85 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:11,160 to be oak. The grass might be at the foot of the mighty oak yet both sway gently in 86 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:16,680 the breeze in their own way. One touches the sky, one caresses the earth. This principle 87 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:21,360 taught me that each being is here uniquely different and apart. There is no such thing 88 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:28,680 as one might have a conquest or a position to aspire only to be what I am and letting 89 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:34,160 others shine by encouragement, having no competition, but collaboration in my work environment. 90 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:39,200 The grass is happy being by itself, right? So is the mighty oak being by itself. There 91 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:45,360 is no comparison factor there. This taught me as a leader that I can be alongside the 92 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:51,360 construction worker and I have seen this personally. It is very humbling who is welding a pipe 93 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:56,360 in the desert. It is 45 degrees centigrade and 100 percent humidity in the desert over 94 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:01,080 there in the Middle East. So imagine that guy is welding a pipe and I would stand next 95 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:07,120 to him, watch him and think that we are equals. Nothing about what I do is bigger than what 96 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:12,480 he or she does, right? I am sure you can come up with more examples of nature if you think 97 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:17,600 along these lines. Just be careful about which part of nature do you want to draw from your 98 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:23,480 personal and professional life. Do you want to take the model of the lion and the prey 99 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:28,880 or do you want to take the trees and the forest? So you got to be careful with which kind of 100 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:34,120 model you choose people, okay? That is the main thing I wanted to convey. Take care, 101 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:42,720 be safe and have a nice day.