​How can a leader be benefited by the Gita’s leadership sutras?

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so how can we correlate the three sutras of leadership as I started I was talking I said that we will be focusing this course on primarily on personal leadership and personal leadership is the foundation of public leadership it means if I have to lead others if I am myself very clear very purposeful, very focused then I will be able to lead others more effectively so the first sutra that we discussed today redefines success that basically if a leader has a very unidimensional or restricted definition of success then failure in that failure within that definition of success can devastate a person that can demoralize and devastate a person the person will not be able to move forward not be able to recover not be able to move on so if we have broader definition of success then even if things go wrong even if we have failures Einstein said that seek not to be a man of success seek to be a man of value if I am building if I am building myself as a person even if I fail even if I have got a if I have trained myself well while working in a job even if I lose that job that is a failure but if I have been working and training and developing my skills I can always get another job so if I evaluate my success only in terms of that job losing that job is a total failure if I have a broader definition of success in terms of the kind of skills that I am developing even if I lose the job that is not the end of the world so like that when we have broader definition of success the broader our definition of success the bigger the problems we can withstand if my definition of success is small when a big problem comes success gets consumed by that problem but if I have big definition of success then even big problems can be withstood so that is the second third is third is related to that be concerned not disturbed that is that while we are going through lives there will be ups and downs and there will be problems and everybody is affected with their problems so if a leader it is very important for a leader to have composure to have confidence the whole team’s morale depends on the leader’s morale if the team leader appears disheartened appears defeated then everybody else gives up more of this they lose the zeal for fighting zeal for striving so if the leader has an awareness of one’s spiritual core and with that awareness there is security the leader will be concerned but not disturbed will not be excessively disturbed by reversals so they will be able to move on purposefully and lead the team so these two are talking more in terms of the negative events that come upon us and how we can deal with them the fourth mind the mind talks about internals I said even leaders can have impulses and if they act impulsively quite often they may damage the process so to subordinate impulse to purpose that’s what I talked about as a matter of principle I talked about in the earlier session but when we talk about mind the mind we analyze where does the impulse come from the impulse comes from the default programming of the mind and when I understand that there is something inside me that is not me then I can separate myself from it the impulse is coming but I don’t have to listen to that impulse so for example if I am speaking right now my mind may say maybe someone will ask a question that you are not able to answer now if I just listen to that and I keep listening to that then that will make me insecure that will make me fearful and even if I get distracted I will get worried and even if later on a question comes which I can answer I will not be able to answer so there is a negative pattern that is there for everyone but what is the difference is how much people listen to that negative pattern and the leaders are that sharp mentally sharp internally then they can avoid those negative impulses and then they can function more productively thank you very much we will have a break for around how much so we will have a break for around 6.35 and you can join after that Hi