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What is the secret of success? Self-belief. If your heart is willing, your body able, you can. Heard it? Yes, but the difference here lay in Harvard University-trained performance trainer Rakesh Dewan's presentation. Time then to dream, plan, accomplish, sums up SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY... .
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GIVEN A chance, Rakesh Dewan would leave psychologists jobless. At least that is what one sieves from this Harvard University alumnus's discourses that it is nothing but just your self-esteem that can make you a Gandhi or a Bill Gates or force you to remain a mere depressed spectator witnessing others surging ahead in life. Mincing no words, he documents the nuances of one's mind as being positioned around one's self esteem in such a way that if it is low key, then one has the mind of a loser and if vice versa, no doubt the person is an achiever.
"Self esteem is the experience of being able to handle life's challenges and feeling worthy of happiness. Only three per cent of our brain is in active engagement. Learning how to tap the balance 97 per cent opens unlimited possibilities," states this student of Jack Canfields and Tim Pering, America's celebrated performance trainers and co-authors of the well-known `Chicken Soup for Soul Series'. Running successfully his Star Academy for the past six years, this expert in the development of human potential and personal effectiveness trains employees of the United Nations in South-East Asian countries like India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, besides some well-known corporate organisations to "realise their self potential" through talking, exercises and games to come out "more focused, happy and contented in everyday life".
"I always tell people in my workshops about the thought-body connection, that if you think you can, you can. When you think you can't, you actually can't. You try this and would yourself experience it. Simple use of transformational vocabulary and positive self-talk can transform the way we act or react," says this man of many summers. What Dewan stumbles upon many times in people is their difficulty in letting go the past.
"But the secret of success lies in forgetting the past and ushering in new experiences," argues Dewan. Giving an example in this context, he elaborates, "When an old car is painted anew, the old paint needs to be scrapped off for the new paint to stick. Similarly, for a new mindset to take root, the mind has to go through a similar rubbing process. This training is primer coating for the mind." Quoting a Harvard University study, he says, "Two out of three people suffer from low self esteem and operates far below their potential. And, this is generally applicable to every group regardless of culture, gender or age."
And, if you are ready to listen more, he would continue his pep talk: Dream with a deadline; affirmations with visualisation are the best way to build self-esteem; every No brings you closer to a Yes; obstacles are the things we look at when we lose focus of our goals; if you fail to plan you are planning to fail; if you have to do something, do it now, ask questions; etc, etc. But, how much of this do you take home with you after attending such a feel-good workshop. Have not we heard of similar workshops happening every now and then? Are not how-to books galore in the market and how effective are they after all?
Defends Dewan, "My workshops are different, in the sense that I maintain contacts with each person attending a workshop for at least three months. If a person for some reason cannot open up during the workshop and decides to do so later, he is most welcome. I do not want to preach but to understand and help the person solve his own problems. After all, the foundation of the success of great people like Gandhi, Mandela, Lincoln, Gates etc was self-belief".
He makes it clear that whether these great men needed no Dewan, but many do. Did I hear him saying, some men are God-sent and some are man-made?
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