Gyan

To motivate, it is not necessary to speak, sometimes you need to be calm and let your audience speak.

On Saturday, when my friends and family were at rest, after their week long hectic schedule, I was pretty excited and left from my home at 7 am. It would take couple of hours to reach the destined place which was a college in Greater Noida. I was invited to speak with the students who were pursuing Management studies. The lecture was supposedly on Motivation.

Well, I don't know, how well I have motivated my audience who were first silent. Then have broken the shell, the difference between known and stranger. They started to speak and went on... sharing their problems and the reasons for their rejections, dejected life, poor performance in academics, their reasons for low morale and what not.

I was confused and I want to confess that they wanted a person who can listen to them patiently.They knew their problem, have completely analyzed it, yet failed to do anything because there was no one who could listen to them and tell them that their analysis and self-introspection is correct. Was I here to motivate and raise their morale? I thought and had questioned myself.

Certainly, the Management thought of this and had called me to talk and share some GYAN to motivate. Instead, I pricked the bubble and let the air pass out of it. I felt, my audience wanted to speak, they wanted to share and shun away their pile of burden...burden of sadness and dejection that was overloaded in their memory baggage; may be because of certain limitation in their academics, or skill set that they failed to polish and adhere.

Gyan - This monosyllable word rippled thoughts and had shaken my mind. Gyan that I feel I have, when shared with others, will it be taken in full by others?

When we teach somebody and think that because of the teaching imparted, pupil learn, this can be half-truth. Actually the knowledge shared, if it is felt of any worth or value, only then it is observed by our mind and is restored for certain time. It is the listener who decides, what he wants to take in. The moment his mind suggests that the context and the content are of no use, even the best delivered GYAN goes in vain or it could be vice-versa.

Here the Gyan was imparted by my audience and  I took it gracefully. They have motivated me to be quiet. To allow them to speak and listen to them. They were not seeking any advise, not they wanted any solution. They knew their problem and were ready to fight with it so that they can overcome the same, but were waiting for a nod, of a soft hand that can gently push them and say, "well do as you have decided".

I heard them patiently and I think this has motivated them a lot...