BuCKLe Up!
is a ‘workshop’ of the course i’m attending at SAFTI-MI. BuCKLe is an acronym for Building Capacity for Knowledge and Learning. it can be seen as an effort of SAF to reshape itself as a 3G armed forces. learnt about learning and it’s mostly about organisation learning and learning organisation. as i said in the previous entry, i’m q interested by the concept.
there are some insights i like to share.
1. ironically, today i went back to nus for some valedictory speech workshop. at the beginning of the week, i felt that the speech workshop would be more interesting and fulfilling compared to the SAF learning workshop. but i was totally wrong.
it really felt different. during the discussions in the saf workshop, we felt q motivated and positive, when we heard each other speak. even when some of us talked about some negative issues. but at the nus speech workshop, we practised the valedictory speeches with each other. while the speeches were supposed to be motivating, they failed. perhaps we were lousy speakers or we were too tired to listen. essentially, i felt that all our speeches lack the spirit. in the name of formalities, proper pronunciation and some unknown ‘rules of public speaking’, most of us just spoke roughly the same stuff.
in some sense, i felt wat most pple talked about. the lack of feeling for convocation. the sense of jadedness. was talking to another reserve valedictorian (i shant name which major). and i just felt a dearth of enthusiasm for life and plain indifference from this chap. maybe it was me, or that i’m too self-righteous. i just thought that a representative of a class should be something more.
but i dun think he represents the majority of students i met in nus. most pple, esp those in csc, are v enthusiastic towards life and hold a much stronger sense of responsibility to society.
back to the main point. i just felt v surprised at how much better organisation gurus in understanding learning as compared to nus, a institute that suppose to epitomise learning. i think the latter is too caught up in delivering world standards and upgrading systems that she has failed in teaching the spirit. felt kinda sad.
but this is not to say that i didnt learn anything from nus. i’ve certainly grown in these years and yup, one impt lesson i took back is certainly that about mentor and apprentice. as i wrote in my speech.
2. on a positive note. i’ve realised a lot of similarity between some organisation thinking concepts and nichiren buddhism. and one thing i learnt today is that of the creative tension.
there should be a diagram. but i’ll put down in words instead. imagine two hands holding on to the same rubber band. let the two hands move in opposite direction (in a vertical axis) and the rubber band becomes tense. the top hand represents one’s ‘vision’ and the other hand one’s ‘current reality’. the gap between ‘vision’ and ‘current reality’ creates tension.
there are two ways to resolve this. one is to focus on the current reality and this creates emotional tension and one haves a reactionary orientation to the problem. the result is ‘vision’ lowering down to close the gap.
another way (the obvious preferred one) is to focus on your vision and adopt a creative stance to the problem. bring up ‘current reality’ to your ‘vision’.
then there’s a quote by peter senge, a guru in this area.
‘the essence of personal mastery is learning how to generate and sustain creative tension in our lives.’
to quote nichiren daishonin,
‘Those who believe in the Lotus Sutra (a Buddhist writing) are as of in winter, but winter always turns into spring’
is a ‘workshop’ of the course i’m attending at SAFTI-MI. BuCKLe is an acronym for Building Capacity for Knowledge and Learning. it can be seen as an effort of SAF to reshape itself as a 3G armed forces. learnt about learning and it’s mostly about organisation learning and learning organisation. as i said in the previous entry, i’m q interested by the concept.
there are some insights i like to share.
1. ironically, today i went back to nus for some valedictory speech workshop. at the beginning of the week, i felt that the speech workshop would be more interesting and fulfilling compared to the SAF learning workshop. but i was totally wrong.
it really felt different. during the discussions in the saf workshop, we felt q motivated and positive, when we heard each other speak. even when some of us talked about some negative issues. but at the nus speech workshop, we practised the valedictory speeches with each other. while the speeches were supposed to be motivating, they failed. perhaps we were lousy speakers or we were too tired to listen. essentially, i felt that all our speeches lack the spirit. in the name of formalities, proper pronunciation and some unknown ‘rules of public speaking’, most of us just spoke roughly the same stuff.
in some sense, i felt wat most pple talked about. the lack of feeling for convocation. the sense of jadedness. was talking to another reserve valedictorian (i shant name which major). and i just felt a dearth of enthusiasm for life and plain indifference from this chap. maybe it was me, or that i’m too self-righteous. i just thought that a representative of a class should be something more.
but i dun think he represents the majority of students i met in nus. most pple, esp those in csc, are v enthusiastic towards life and hold a much stronger sense of responsibility to society.
back to the main point. i just felt v surprised at how much better organisation gurus in understanding learning as compared to nus, a institute that suppose to epitomise learning. i think the latter is too caught up in delivering world standards and upgrading systems that she has failed in teaching the spirit. felt kinda sad.
but this is not to say that i didnt learn anything from nus. i’ve certainly grown in these years and yup, one impt lesson i took back is certainly that about mentor and apprentice. as i wrote in my speech.
2. on a positive note. i’ve realised a lot of similarity between some organisation thinking concepts and nichiren buddhism. and one thing i learnt today is that of the creative tension.
there should be a diagram. but i’ll put down in words instead. imagine two hands holding on to the same rubber band. let the two hands move in opposite direction (in a vertical axis) and the rubber band becomes tense. the top hand represents one’s ‘vision’ and the other hand one’s ‘current reality’. the gap between ‘vision’ and ‘current reality’ creates tension.
there are two ways to resolve this. one is to focus on the current reality and this creates emotional tension and one haves a reactionary orientation to the problem. the result is ‘vision’ lowering down to close the gap.
another way (the obvious preferred one) is to focus on your vision and adopt a creative stance to the problem. bring up ‘current reality’ to your ‘vision’.
then there’s a quote by peter senge, a guru in this area.
‘the essence of personal mastery is learning how to generate and sustain creative tension in our lives.’
to quote nichiren daishonin,
‘Those who believe in the Lotus Sutra (a Buddhist writing) are as of in winter, but winter always turns into spring’
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