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GROUP-WORK AND PERSONAL PROBLEMS: Is Group Activity the New ‘Socialist State’?

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#Celebrateblogging: THE LESSONS-3   Tap HERE for the previous part I joined the group activity so that I could observe how individuals behave. Perhaps, I was in for a more mysterious and dynamic outcome. Something or someone in control of everything had my destiny going a direction I hardly thought about before. The great lesson I mentioned, about interpersonal communication was about to appear in my life. I posted my chapter in my blog, directly, without the ‘mandatory editing’ that was being done in the Facebook Group previously with all other bloggers. I knew I was taking a risk by bypassing a group-norm. However, I was also acting upon my inner beliefs and knowing. Celebrate blogging should be ‘celebrated’ through blogging itself and no it a secret Facebook community. In my opinion, the flexibility associated with blogs is the most important aspect of the high-art of blogging. No other medium of publication with similar impact, in the whole history of publi...

#Celebrateblogging: THE LESSONS-2

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I took part in a group activity, recently. What you are about to read is the second part of my personal experience during this activity. [For the first part, go to OLDER POST below.  Do you believe group activities are meant for the benefit of the individual? Believe me; I didn’t care a rug-sack about what anyone else thought. All I did was to jump into this challenge. And all I expected at that moment was some hidden benefit in from this activity on a personal level. [Just as they teach us in personality development classrooms.]     Image Courtesy: Indu Manoj © all rights reserved The name I suggested for the team was elected. Thus our team was baptized Kalakar Colony . Kalakar in Hindi means artist .  In the process, I also suggested that one of the names suggested by another member of the team sounds a bit amateur. I meant only the word not the person behind it. However, I was about to be given a great lesson in interpersonal communicat...