MAST

A wise man has said "If you want to grow in life; always see towards the sky." I really don't know who said that or maybe they are purely my words. One more wise man said “ if you want to grow in an organization; check out with the trainings conducted there”. In my opinion, these trainings make you think about yourself rather than the computer/software with which you spend most of your quality time.

Today, I attended a training called "Mast". It was like "Baby’s days out". Although, there were few interesting people around me but I did not see any kind of spark. Most of them looked tensed and unhappy. I am talking about what I saw their eyes. May be they were tired. Surprisingly, the trainer’s eyes were totally red due to some infection or allergy. But she was fine and ready to take her charge.

Initially, I was little bit upset with the strength of the crowd for the training. We were just 7 people including the trainer (3M+3F). There was a bit too much of theory involved. But it was kind of OK!! because it was not for fun but for MAST. The story started in a building (which I call) SER 1.5. As usual, the training room was empty when I arrived there (with one more guy). I had a weird feeling that probably nobody will turn up but my optimistic side said, may be I am just lucky enough to grab a chair of my own choice. Well, I settled myself right in the middle of the room to see everything around in a better way. Let me tell you that, I was very excited for this training as it has a reputation of its own. Also the name is "MAST" you know. MAST stands for managerial skill training not for someone like “Raveena Tondon” .You may ask yourself why the hell I am writing about something like that....crap...but anyways it never matters. It is worth to waste your time this way than going behind someone for something. At least, you will know that it is your original views getting in shape. Coming to the topic....

The training started late and ended well before the scheduled time today. I have to attend the rest of it tomorrow. Frankly, speaking I was disappointed with first day response. Perhaps, I wanted an aggressive training which would make me eat my nails something like “iss Jungle (Training) se mujhe bachao". Every one of us was feeling shy and everything was at place there. There was an unpleasant peace around. I thought I was back in my sweet school days where a teacher comes in SUPW and blabbers something and we go out more pleasantly when bell rings.

But, you know there was little bit of fun added here. There was a game in which you had to arrange some cups using few threads and few rubber bands without touching those cups with your fingers. You were supposed to make a structure. All boys were in one team and all girls grouped together. We made a bit of something piled up one over the other and it came like a structure in the given time of 3 minutes. The other group was given 2.5 minutes for the same activity but they could not do much. The hidden agenda behind this game was to let us know the importance of “planning and work sharing”. Basically, it was to make us aware of our responsibility. I learnt two more thing in two different tests:

1. I am less social than I think really I am. Socialism is nowhere in my life now-a-days. I am thinking to improve my socialist factor.

2. I am too much supportive and a confused kind of guy who is an emotional idiot and who has a wrong faith that he is social and also, I cannot take a clear decision. I have to work on this.

One more thing which I would like to add that now-a-days my driving factor is "Spirituality-Search for truth". :) Thanks to those Swami Vivekananda books which I read during my weekends.

You know last weekend I was reading Sanskrit because I had problem when I was reading holy Gita slokas(book). I spent most of time around spiritual books and discussing the same with my friend Shashi Shekhar. There is only truth which I cannot understand or perceive". The rest all is just "MAYA" a window of time space and causation. J SAB MAYA HAI.

The programs like MAST saves a lot of money and time when you compare it with going to a psychiatrist or doing self analysis. These programs give you a bit of feeling about your orientation in a better way as the questions are tested and designed by experts.

I think tomorrow it would be fun and better in comparison to the experience what I had today. The training programs in companies are kind of mirrors which reveals the expectation of that organization. A careful planning and a right approach can lead you to the sky. I hope tomorrow would be a better day with more sparks and hopes around.