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Soft Skills: Positive Thinking

The document discusses positive thinking and defines it as a mental attitude that believes things will improve and difficulties can be overcome. It examines William James' view that people only use a small part of their mental abilities. Dr. Eric Berne's four attitudes are presented: not okay-not okay, not okay-okay, okay-not okay, okay-okay. Ways to develop positivity include believing in abilities, enhancing skills, learning from others, taking right paths, and concentrating on goals. The Johari Window model illustrates self-awareness and understanding between individuals and groups through four regions: open, blind, hidden, and unknown. It can help increase open communication and disclosure to improve skills, relationships, and productivity.

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Soft Skills: Positive Thinking

The document discusses positive thinking and defines it as a mental attitude that believes things will improve and difficulties can be overcome. It examines William James' view that people only use a small part of their mental abilities. Dr. Eric Berne's four attitudes are presented: not okay-not okay, not okay-okay, okay-not okay, okay-okay. Ways to develop positivity include believing in abilities, enhancing skills, learning from others, taking right paths, and concentrating on goals. The Johari Window model illustrates self-awareness and understanding between individuals and groups through four regions: open, blind, hidden, and unknown. It can help increase open communication and disclosure to improve skills, relationships, and productivity.

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Soft Skills

Lecture 06
Positive Thinking
Dr. Binod Mishra
Department of HSS, IIT Roorkee

1
Defining Positive Thinking
“Positive thinking is a positive mental
attitude that firmly believes that things
will soon be better and with that belief,
one can overcome any type of difficulty in
his favor.”
- Norman Vincent Peale

2
An observation
“We are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part
of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly,
human individuals thus far live within their limits. They possess
powers of various sorts which they habitually fail to use.”
-- William James

3
Dr. Eric Berne’s views on attitude
• I’m not okay, you are not okay (Introvert)
• I’m not okay, you are okay. (Negative)
• I’m okay, you are not okay. ( Imposing)
• I’m okay, you are okay. (Positive)

4
Ways to develop Positivism
 Believe in your abilities.
 Enhance your skills.
 Learn from others.
 Take right paths.
 Concentrate on your goals.

5
Johari Window
Devised by American Psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry
Ingham in 1955.
 To illustrate and improve self-awareness and mutual
understanding
To assess a group’s relationship with other groups
 To understand and train soft skills behaviour

6
Contd.

7
Disclosure/feedback model
 Combined after the first names of Joe and Harry
 Represents information–feelings, experiences, views, attitudes,
skills, intentions, motivation within or about a person in
relation to their group

8
Contd.
 ‘Self’ is the group and ‘others’ as other groups.
 The four perspectives are called regions or quadrants.
 Each region represents feelings or motivations.
(known/unknown) by the person and whether the information
is known /unknown by others in the group.

9
Four Regions
1. Open area: What is known by the person is also known by
others
2. Blind area: What is unknown by the person but which others
know
3. Hidden area: What the person knows about himself and
others do not know
4. Unknown: What is unknown by the person and is also
unknown by others

10
Quadrant One: Open Area

 To develop open area for every person


 The size of the open area can be expanded both horizontally
and vertically through feedback solicitation
 Open area can be expanded through open positive
communication

11
Quadrant Two: Blind Area/ Spot

 This area is to be reduced and open area to be increased.


 Sensitive feedback can help an individual reduce this area.
 Managers can promote non-judgmental feedback and group
response to individual disclosure.

12
Quadrant Three: Hidden Self
 What is known to ourselves but kept hidden from others.
 Includes hidden agendas, fears, sensitivities, secrets and
manipulative intentions.
 Relevant hidden area should be moved into the open area
through the process of disclosure.
 Reducing hidden area promotes co-operation, trust and team
working.

13
Quadrant Four: Unknown Self
 Unknown to the person and also unknown to others
 Can be uncovered in certain situations through
collective/mutual discovery
 Process of self-discovery is sensitive and depends upon
individual’s own discretion

14
Unknown factors
• Ability i.e. under-estimated and untried
• A natural ability or attitude that a person doesn’t realize they
have
• Fearor aversion
• An unknown illness
• Repressed or subconscious feeling
• Conditioned behaviour

15
Summing up
Johari Windows
 Can thus help in unraveling the various skills of individuals
through self-awareness.
 Knowing the group members and ensuring better relationship
and communication skills through mutual co-operation and
trust.
 Ensures better productivity and success by reducing gaps in
thinking.

16
Contd.

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”


- Dhammapada

17

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