Indian Ethos & Values MBA-107 Personal Growth

INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

C. S. J. M. UNIVERSITY, KANPUR

Indian Ethos & Values

Topic: Personal Growth
Presented By:
Praveen Rai

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Index
S.
Topic Slide No.
No.
1 Introduction 4
2 Sources of Personal Growth 5–7

3 Sequencing of Growth in Formative Period of Life Cycle 9

4 Characteristic Trends of Developments 10

5 Principles of Growth 12 – 13
6 Characteristics of Healthy Growth 14
7 Factors Affecting the Personal Growth 16 – 19

8 Sustaining Personal Growth (Change) – Seven Tools for Pers 21

onal Growth
9 Some Effective Personalities (Indians) 23 – 24
10 Conclusion 25 - 26
11 Bibliography 27
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Introduction
“Personal growth is a process that produces
personal change and progress. It starts from
within you”.

"Of all the things that can have an effect

on your future, I believe personal
growth is the greatest. We can talk
about sales growth, profit growth, asset
growth, but all of this probably will not
happen without personal growth."
Jim Rohn

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Sources of Personal Growth

1. Heredity:-
a. Activity level
b. Sensitivity to stimuli
c. Adaptability
Most unique aspect of our human inheritance is brain.
It is most highly organized apparatus consisting
of about TEN BILLION (100 crores) nerve cells or
Neurons with countless interconnecting pathways
and connections with other part of body.
a. Brain provides fantastic communication and
computing network.
b. Tremendous capabilities of learning and storing
experience.
c. Reasoning, imaging and problem solving.
d. Integration of overall functioning of organism.
Heredity is thus important source of individual
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Sources of Personal Growth

Contd….
2. Environment:-
a. socio cultural inheritance
b. basic personality type
c. significant individuals
d. Socio cultural environment
Thus we can say that our genetic endowment
provides our potentialities both for biological
and psychological development, but shaping of
these potentialities, in term of perceiving,
thinking, feeling and acting depends heavily on
our physical and socio cultural environment.

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Sources of Personal Growth

Contd….
3. Self Structure:-
The story of the development of human
personality is the story of constant
interaction between self (the inner reality) and
environment (the outer reality).
Fundamentals of functioning of self-systems are
based on three assumptions:
a. Reality assumption
b. Possibility assumption
c. Value assumption
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Sequencing of Growth in Formative Period of

Life Cycle
Under the combined influence of inner and outer are
determinants, human development follows a predictable
sequence and proceeds in characteristic directions,
depending on environment and individuals learning
essential information competencies.
Although persons, growth in formative years, shaped
in different ways, in different socio-cultural settings,
there are certain characteristics trends in development
that are seen in any society, primitive or advance. These
trend lead the individual toward
1. Responsible self-direction
2. Ability to participate in society
3. Ability to contribute to society
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Characteristic Trends of Developments

Dependence to Self-direction
Self-Control
Ignorance to Knowledge
Incompetence to Competence
Amoral to Moral
Self-centered to other –Centered
There are wide spread differences in the success
with which individual reach these goals but all
are important in realizing one’s growth potential
& development into productive and effective
member of society. S-8
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Principles of Growth
Following general principles provided useful perspective
for viewing overall nature and course of human
growth.
Growth normally proceeds in an orderly sequence
(in stages) although rate is not constant.
 Each part and sub system has its own pattern
and sequence of development.
 There may be differing characteristics of
growth during infancy, childhood and later life
periods.
Each new stage of growth builds on and in limited
by previous growth and in turn provides foundation
for stages that follow. What happens in child hood
is influenced by events of infancy and in turn helps
co-determine the course of adolescence. S-9
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Principles of Growth Contd….

Pathway from infancy to maturity involving
differentiation, integration and complexity of
structure and behavior. On a psychological level
this is evidenced in the progression from
dependence to self-direction.
There are both similarities and differences in the
growth of individuals. Each person goes through
the same stages but there are differences in
learning, growth pattern and outcomes among
the members of any age group.
Growth may be normal or faulty depending on the
quality of interaction of genetic and
environmental factors.

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Characteristics of Healthy Growth

While there are differences in emphasis, most of the
investigators consider following personality
characteristics essential for healthy growth and
effective coping behavior and for achieving
meaningful and fulfilling way of life.
a. Adequate frame of reference
b. Essential competencies
c. Self-direction
d. Personal Growth & Self-actualization

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Factors Affecting the Personal Growth

1. Positive Attitude:
Triple Es of attitude
 Environment
 Experience
 Education

The benefits of a positive attitude

 Increases productivity
 Fosters teamwork
 Solves problems
 Improves quality
 Increases profits

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Factors Affecting the Personal Growth

Contd….
2. Success:
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy
goal”.
Earl Nightingale

Qualities that make a person successful:

Desire
Commitment
Responsibility
Hard Work
Character

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Factors Affecting the Personal Growth

Contd….
3. Self-Esteem:
High Self-Esteem

Low Self-Esteem

4. Goal Setting:

“On the journey to life’s highway keep your eyes upon

the goal, focus on the donut not upon the hole”.

5. Ethics:

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Factors Affecting the Personal Growth

Contd….

6. Vision:
“Where the vision is one year, cultivate flowers.
Where the vision is ten years, cultivate trees.
Where the vision is eternity, cultivate people”.
Oriental saying

Remember, winners don't do different things, they

do things differently!

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Sustaining Personal Growth (Change) –

Seven Tools for Personal Growth

1.
1. Seeking
Seeking Truth
Truth
Seeking
Seeking the
the truth
truth means
means being
being curious
curious about
about
what
what is
isgoing
goingononinin ourselves
ourselvesand
andaround
aroundus.
us.

2.
2. Not
Not Doing
Doing
‘‘Accept,
Accept,Allow,
Allow,Let
Let ititgo’
go’
Those
Those glimpse
glimpse often
often become
become some
some of
of our
our
most
mostimportant
importantpersonal
personalgrowth
growthlessons.
lessons.

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Sustaining Personal Growth (Change) –

Seven Tools for Personal Growth
Contd….

2.
2. Not
Not Doing…….
Doing…….
Accept
Accept IfIf filled
filled with
with pride,
pride, you
you say,
say, ‘I‘I will
will not
not fight
fight
itit is
is all
all in
in vain’.
vain’. You
You are
are foolish.
foolish. Fight,
Fight, youyou will,
will,
your
your nature
nature will
will make
make you
you fight.
fight. Your
Your KARMA
KARMA
will
will make
make you you fight.
fight. You
You will
will fight
fight inin spite
spite of
of
yourself.
yourself.
Bhagawada
BhagawadaGeeta Geeta

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Sustaining Personal Growth (Change) –

Seven Tools for Personal Growth
Contd….

3.
3. Willing
Willing to
to be
be Open
Open
Any
Any limitation
limitation and
and blocking
blocking from
from awareness
awareness does
does
not
not allow
allowgrowth.
growth.

4.
4. Getting
Getting Proper
Proper Support
Support
IfIf we
we are
are living
living or
or working
working in
in dysfunctional
dysfunctional
environments,
environments, personal
personal growth
growth is
is not
not possible.
possible.

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Sustaining Personal Growth (Change) –

Seven Tools for Personal Growth
Contd….

5.
5. Learning
Learning from
from Everything
Everything
Whatever
Whatever is
is arising
arising in
in our
our hearts
hearts oror mind
mind is
is the
the
raw
raw material
material that
thatwe
wecan
can use
useititfor
for our
our growth.
growth.

6.
6. Cultivating
Cultivating aa Real
Real Love
Love of
of Self
Self
We
We can
can not
not love
love others
others ifif we
we do
do not
not love
love
ourselves.
ourselves.

7.
7. Having
Having aa Practice
Practice
Having
Havinginterest
interest in
inwork
workgives
givesthe
thebest
bestresult.
result.
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Some Effective Personalities (Indians)

1.
1.Swami
SwamiVivekananda
Vivekananda
He
He was
was the
the most influential social
most influential social
reformer
reformerof
ofthe
the19th
19thCentury.
Century.

2.
2. Mother
MotherTeresa
Teresa
She
She was
was given
given the title ‘Blessed
the title ‘Blessed Teresa
Teresa
of
of Calcutta
Calcutta’’by
byPope
PopeJohnJohnPaul
PaulIIII

3.
3.Dr.
Dr.A.
A. P.
P. J.
J.Abdul
AbdulKalam
Kalam
Dr.
Dr. Abdul
Abdul Kalam
Kalam is
is popularly
popularly known
known as
as the
the
‘Missile
‘Missile Man
Manof ofIndia
India’’

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Some Effective Personalities (Indians)

Contd….

4.
4. Ratan
RatanTata
Tata
In
In 1998,
1998, Tata
Tata Motors
Motors came
came up
up with
with Tata
Tata
Indica,‘the
Indica, ‘the first
firsttruly
trulyIndian
Indiancar
car’.’.

5.
5. Indra
IndraNooyi
Nooyi
As
As per
per Forbes
Forbes magazine,
magazine, Indra
Indra Nooyi
Nooyi ranks
ranks
fifth
fifth in
in the
the list
list of
of the
the World’s
World’s 100
100 Most
Most
Powerful
PowerfulWomen Womenin in2007
2007’’

6.
6. Kiran
KiranBedi
Bedi
She
She has
has influenced
influenced several
several decisions
decisions of
of the
the
Indian
IndianPolice
PoliceService
Service..

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Conclusion
Personal growth is a process that produces personal
change and progress. And it starts from within you.
The basic sources of personal growth are heredity and
environment and then self-Structure.
The story of the development of human personality is the
story of constant interaction between self (the inner
reality) and environment (the outer reality).
Growth normally proceeds in an orderly sequence (in
stages) although rate is not constant.

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Conclusion
Contd….
There are both similarities and differences in the growth
of individuals. Each person goes through the same stages
but there are differences in learning, growth pattern
and outcomes among the members of any age group.
Positive Attitude, Self-Esteem, Goal setting, Ethics and
Vision are the main factors which affect the Personal
growth.
Successful persons have one thing in common which is
their high attained- Personal Growth.

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Bibliography
“You Can Win” by Shiv Khera
“Story of my experiment with truth” by M.K. Gandhi
“Keeping well at work”: A TUC guide by Pearson
The Wisdom of the Enneagram (Bantam, 1999, pages
345-347); http://
www.enneagraminstitute.com/books/Books_Wisdom.asp
http://www.google.com
http://www.iloveindia.com/
http://www.Webindia123.com
www.Wikipaedia.org

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You
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