Personal Learning PaperOrganizational Behavior

Kshamta SharmaFH14003

Life is not easy and it should not be easy. Stability in life leads to status quo. This status quo may

bring passivity in life. An active person makes things; a passive person waits for things to be

made. An active person works, plays, walks, runs, dances, travels, speaks, loves, laughs, and

cries. A passive person doesn’t do anything but damning that boring empty life. Having a clear

idea of what you want from life has a different kind of joy which I was enjoying during my

graduation. I believe that whatever happens with me, it’s because of my action and efforts.

Having human life is the best thing that can happen to anyone on this earth. Brain and the power

to analyze and think before taking any action make human being the most powerful creature on

this planet. But then, there was a period when I was aimless. Failing after so many attempts

brought me to a crossroad, where the only question I asked to myself was, “Why am I on this

earth.” I was definitely not cursing myself or others for this failure but I was almost lost. I had so

many unwanted advices from my well-wishers. They were actually my well-wishers who loved

me in my bad times. But I could not just follow their advices. I needed some reason to do

“anything” in my life. It was my life which is larger than anything even today. Happiness is the

most important thing in my life which I can easily drive by spending times with my family,

playing with street animals, sitting in the diamond jubilee park or spending time on the terrace of

IC at XLRI. The only thing about life which I know is that if I am not happy, how can I make

other person happy? I wanted to know what my identity is. I respect freedom and this is

something I need in my life. There is a good reason for such liking. Suppose I am on my death

bed, I would definitely be worried about my loved ones. But the only question I would be asking

to myself will be that “Did I try my best to be whatever I could be?” Life should have a meaning

and the only aim of person should be to identify it. Theories of organizational behavior says that

every person has a unique personality which leads to a unique style of thinking and seeing things

around him or her. This is the reason I respect freedom. Every person on this earth is free to live

his life in his own way. He is the hero of his life and hero never hurts any one. I am a follower of

the theory Y given by Douglas McGregor. Having more experience does not give a person any

right to direct or guide any other person’s life. But this experience brings moral and social

obligations on the experienced person to protect those who are going in a wrong direction. I

believe in becoming a partner rather than becoming an instructor.

Being here in XLRI was never my aim. The reason is that XLRI runs the management

programme not happiness programme. As I have already mentioned, I can drive happiness from

anything and everything. I believe that the concept of appreciative intelligence forms the

foundation of a happy person’s life. Appreciative Intelligence is about seeing almighty in the

oak, seeing light in the darkness and believing that it’s you who defines who you are, not others.

Why should I let others to define me?? Pain gives pain, stress brings bad feeling but there is

something beyond it. Time, it heals everything. Sometimes we cannot get the answers of

everything and in the search of immediate answers, all we get is frustration. Life has given us

time and all it wants in return is time. By giving time, we can allow the questions to be answered

in a beautiful manner and this is the beauty of life. People call it uncertainty and risk but I call it

a beautiful surprise. Knowing yourself is not possible to be done overnight. Though I used to be

impatience but the classroom teachings of the Individual Behavior in term I, has helped me so

much to get the answer of many questions. In my life there are only two kind of things. First

category includes those which are in my control and second includes those which are not in my

control. Those which are in my control are again divided into two category, weaknesses and

strengths. No one can claim that he has no weakness. Weaknesses and strengths are relative to

each other and one thing cannot be eliminated to make other one more significant. In order to

know myself more clearly, my first step should be to identify my strengths and weaknesses and

accepting the truth that weaknesses cannot be vanished completely. I can only minimize and

suppress them. On the other hand, those factors which are not in my control, will definitely affect

me positively or negatively. In this case my dominant strategy should be to rely on my strengths

with a confidence.

Being at XLRI should be one of the happiest moment of my life but I wasn’t. I am not writing

this for the sake of marks or making a good impression but the classes taken by Prof ISF re-

introduced me with myself. It is not possible for me to get everything in the life. Of course

failures bring sadness in life but it is my life. I cannot let anything make it sad. I know that I

cannot succeed in everything but I believe I will succeed in my life. My current status in this

process of succeeding in life is “trying my best to be the best of what I am capable of becoming.”

Thank you for making us writing this PLP. I started it with an intention of writing it for the name

sake only. Knowing myself is the most difficult task but this is the best and most beautiful thing I

can do for me. I am going to keep this document forever. It is the real me.