success and happiness

SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS:  

By Mr NAGARAJU K B

Mr Nagaraju K B visited Amrita School of business   to speak on a topic that is becoming very pertinent in today’s corporate world. The topic was “SUCCESS and HAPPINESS” .

SKH, the seminar hall of Amrita School Of Business saw a large number of students from both 1^st and 2^nd year MBA waiting in zeal and kindling fervor to listen to the speaker.

Mr Nagaraju K B pursued B.E from University of Madras and PGDM on Operations and Marketing from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He is currently a management consultant and has worked in top companies which include TVS Logistics services limited, Lenovo India private limited as Chief operating officer and VP-Supply chain operations respectively. He has a rich professional experience in supply chain and logistics.

SUCCESS IS…..

Mr Nagaraju K B’s insightful speech began with first explaining the young-fresh MBA pursuers about the idea behind finding success which according to him can come through TRIAL AND ERROR – By risks and experiments or by ACHIEVING GOALS.  SUCCESS according to him was about satisfying the inner and outer perspectives of oneself. The inner perspective could be Happiness and Fulfillment. Outer perspective included fame, fortune and meaningful work.

HAPPINESS…..

The next part of the topic – HAPPINESS now came into the picture. Happiness, a positive emotion can mean different things to different people. It can be a deep sense of joy connection or can happen due to ‘pleasure’ or ‘gratification’. He explained the concept of MOMENTARY HAPPINESS which is the overall evaluation of one’s own life situation. The concept of ‘FLOW and GROWTH’ which means that as a person grows, he/she becomes increasingly productive and responsible, was also discussed. He strongly put forward his view that – ‘MULTITASKING IS A MYTH’. One has to focus on one task with full attention and then go onto the next task for lasting success and happiness.

“Managing and living up to the expectations also has a significant role to play in happiness. People indubitably feel happy when they manage their expectations. There is also a ‘Genetic Disposition’.  People have a set score to which they always revert. “

The next interesting part of the session revolved around ways to increase one’s overall happiness. They included (A) making health a priority (B) achieving long term goals- ideally difficult ones (C) Investing more in relationships (D) making enough money (E) Doing good deeds and (F) exploring the world-starting with one’s own country. The past also has a role to play in increasing our overall happiness. It could be done by fueling positive emotions about past satisfactions, gratitude and adopting the idea of ‘Forgiveness’

Mr Nagaraju K B rightfully put forward these inspiring phrases – 
“DUMP THE NEGATIVE BAGGAGES, MOVE ON WITH THE FUTURE”

and

“THERE IS NOTHING CALLED FAILURE. IT IS MORE OF A MISTAKE”.

“Future’s part in increasing the overall happiness included dealing with negative emotions of future which may be anxiety, believing in oneself and focusing on effort and not result.”

ULTIMATE HAPPINESS is a goal every individual forever works on and there is no magical recipe to achieve it. Putting in the words of Mr Nagaraju K B - Ultimate happiness is a sense of meaning that comes from serving a purpose larger than oneself. It comes when one manages to strike a relationship between oneself, others and the work. ‘SOMETHING LARGER THAN ONESELF’.

“Success also has an outer perspective to it. Culture and family are a great influence on how we view success. Parents, siblings, coaches, Media bombard us with suggestions of what success means. THESE IDEAS ARE INVISIBLE AND LITTLE DEBATED”.

SUCCESS, he says, has today become a rush for more of everything. “The media, rat race to achieve everything and peer pressure has pushed us to become money making machines”.

“YOU CANNOT BE ON PAGE 3 FOR A LONG TIME, UNLESS YOU ARE DOING A SUSTAINABLY GOOD JOB!!” – Mr Nagaraju KB.

The next part of seminar brought forward the relationship between job decisions and Happiness. Criterias for job decisions can be money growth, work-life balance and sharing-mentoring.

ACHIEVING SUCCESS:

He gave the following formulae for achieving success – (A) discovering and building capabilities (B)motivating oneself (C) developing confidence (D) building relationships.

In the last phase of the session, the speaker revealed the FOUR DIAMONDS needed for SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS – interest and passions, talents, past experiences, personality strengths.

Mr Nagaraju K B winded up the session by saying that Success requires confidence and confidence also brings in a lot of happiness.

The students then put forward their questions which were in detail answered by Mr Nagaraju KB. Some students rigorously took notes and were all smiles on getting  a clearer picture on ‘SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS’ and looked forward to adapt the principles of Mr. Nagaraju

- Shruti Khaitan

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