Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning

Week 1: Crafting Realities

• How we make sense of the world around us and our experience in it?
• The role of our mental models in the way we process information from the world
• Distinguishing between objective and subjective reality
• Understanding how confirmation bias can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy

Week 2: Demystifying Success

• How we define success for ourselves?
• The role played by society in shaping our definition of success
• Creating an awareness of our personal values to help us navigate this complexity
• Decoupling our own dreams from the expectations of other stakeholders in our lives

Week 3: Accepting Failure

• Understanding the label of failure and the effects it has on us
• Exploring the attributes of perfectionism and how to overcome them
• Understanding resilience and tools to help us become more resilient
• Cultivating a healthy and realistic attitude to failure

Week 4: Redefining Work

• Nature and utility of work in everyday life
• Introduction to the flow state and its benefits
• Crafting a more empowering inner definition of work
• Consciously cultivating meaning and purpose in work

Week 5: Leveraging Emotions

• The connection between happiness and productivity
• Overcoming our innate bias towards the negative and dealing with negative emotions
• Shifting our happiness baseline and choosing to play to our strengths
• Cultivating emotional intelligence and using mirror neurons to our advantage

Week 6: Continuing the Journey

• Creating and sustaining change
• Cultivating an innovation mindset and avoiding generalized conclusions
• Digging deeper with Integrative thinking
• Savoring the journey and managing personal energy