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Ask yourself...
How well do you know yourself?
What is your role in making the world a better place?
Change begins with you.
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The fight for inclusion, diversity, transforming teams and products:
Change begins with you
Take the time to change who you are; how else can we understand or bring about change in the world?
Reflection helps us understand our strengths, weaknesses, clarity of thought & who we must become
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Frank Herbert from Dune again:
"You cannot see the future without seeing the past."
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Imran thinks that reflection has helped:
Better self-awareness → Impact on other people
Deeper alignment with my core values → Selective with where I put my energy
Practicing empathy → Different ways of thinking and iteration
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Don't just read your journal notes - revise them
Your feelings around the experience might have changed - revisit your thoughts
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When you start journalling, you lean into your imagination:
Observe →Think → Imagine
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Keep a journal of questions and answers to develop your curiosity and reflective practice
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Dig through the layers, the belief system, the purpose that is driving a persons' actions and behaviour (yours or someone else's)
Dig through the layers. Find meaning
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15 minutes. No devices! Just you and your thoughts.
Next develop your curiosity...
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Create the space for your thoughts and feelings to land
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Solitude is a practice neglected by modern society.
Being alone with just your thoughts
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Art demands that we have solitude, that we are curious and that we can use our imagination
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Where to start?
Reflection is a form of art...
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Let people have the space to pause and think about how they feel about their work
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Give your teams time and space to think about how they feel. Not just a quick retrospective.
Examine how everyone felt, how they changed
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Gibbs and reflection
Graham Gibbs developed the 6-stage reflective cycle in 1988 to help with experiential learning.
Critically, he expressed the importance of feelings in reflection.
6 stages of the reflective cycle:
Description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, action plan
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Meaning comes from feelings
Feelings are neglected by our society, seen as weakness, when actually they're a sign of courage
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"We had the experience but missed the meaning."
- T.S. Eliot
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Look around at people who excel
Brené Brown
Serena Williams
Lionel Messi
People who are successful and feel fulfilled typically do less - they understand where to put their energy
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Research on reflection:
A study in 2014 found that people who spent 15 minutes at the end of the day reflecting on their experiences, performed 23% better compared to those who didn't.
The Reflective Group were happier, more productive and less burnt out
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Imagine reflection as a cycle
We have an experience, we reflect on it, and we learn from it
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Next Imran shows us an empathy map
If we can't practice empathy for ourself? How can we practice it for others?
Reflection lets us look inwards, slow down and understand things
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*Shows a graph where increasing age requires increasing effort*
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Imran starts to make sense of his Dad's words.
We've become too busy to experience our reality
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*Shows interior of Apple Car mockup* that has a huge dashboard with screens.