Attitude

Attitude is everything???

Is attitude the "be all end all" in life?

Is attitude the most important thing to be considered during recruitment, career development etc.

Is this what is of utmost importance even in a sales job where "numbers" mean everything?

Please see the attached presentation also before starting the debate

Thanks
bala

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ATTITUDE


I have read your article.

First, ATTITUDE could be defined is a state of mind.

It is the product of a number of levels of factors.


TOP LEVEL ----- behavior.

This is what people see and make judgements on
behavior. But people call it attitude.
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BELOW BEHAVIOR is the state of mind.

what we call the attitude [ positive or negative ]

People make value judgements on attitude, but really people
should use descriptive terms.

Because the state of mind is a product of feelings.
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BELOW the state of mind is the FEELINGS.
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BELOW the feelings level

is the NEEDS

FEELINGS ARE created by the needs.
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FINALLY THE NEEDS itself

is a product of your values.
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HENCE THE

-VALUES create needs
-NEEDS create feelings
-FEELINGS create state of mind
-STATE OF MIND [ ATTITUDE ] creates behavior.

BEHAVIOR IS WHAT MOST PEOPLE SEE AND MAKE JUDGEMENTS.
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HENCE , WHEN WE CONDUCT INTERVIEWS

-FOR SELECTION
-FOR CAREER PLAN
ETC

WE SHOULD TRAIN OUR QUESTIONS TO DETERMINE

-VALUES
-APTITUDE
-EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

TO DETERMINE THE RIGHT CHOICE.

INDIVIDUAL ATTITUDE [ STATE OF MIND ] PLAYS ,

NOT A MAJOR PART , IN THE SELECTION / CAREER PLAN.


REGARDS

LEO LINGHAM

Thanks Leo for the explanation.

Expecting valuable insights into the subject from Rajat, Drji, Ajmal and others.

bala

Thanks bala.

Attitude had been not only a subject of study in scial psychology, but my masters and doctoral level works also contained attitude. But as on to day when I think that a judge's attitude determine's the outcome in a matter and neither the law nor the justice, I really get shaken. The invisible attitude determines everything and not the visible ones. So the more you study and ponder over attitude the more you come to the conclusion that attitude of everything-even life and death.

We shall continue interaction

regards

Thanks Dr.

Could you please give me your views whether attitude is the "be all, end all" in recruitments, career development etc.

Thanks
Bala

Namaskar.

Psychometry/psychology is a science of probabilty. No such opinion can be given.

regards

We can also look at Behavior being the output of Habits which are reinforced by Actions which are triggered by Thoughts...

Thoughts --> Actions --> Habits --> Behavior

Sanath

Dear Bala,

I found your article very interesting and I would like to share with the rest of HRCite friends, my views.

Please do allow me to side-track abit. :D

I am a aikidoka, and have been practicing for the past 5 years. For those who is unfamiliar with Aikido, it is a Japanese martial art of self-defence that promotes non-aggressive nature, in fact, we do not have competition at all, as it goes against our philopsophy and everything we taught by the founder. Anyway, I notice that I began to think different, work different, live different, nothing forced, just a natural change. And I see this slowly developing in junior belts especially their confidence and outlook. My interest then lead me to analyse aikido in detail and to try to determine how this change came about.

To cut the long story short, I would like to summarise that Aikido provided a training space for our attitude, to generate a positive outlook towards ourselves and others. Through practice and being constantly faced with situations that required a calm mind, a protective alertness and maintain a constant stated of relaxation, we become more firm as a person and develop a strong mental approach towards life and work.

After awhile, I grew less stressful in the traffic jam. I learn to take it as a personal space where I am alone with my thoughts. I am able to take a step backwards and approach problems and situations with a calm mind.....and many others....because my attitude has been tuned to imagine as if I was in the dojo and face everything like an attack. My attitude is continuesly being trained to be in harmony with my surrounding and my universe. And now, how I look at life is to continuously maintaining that fragile balance of harmony. I still make mistake, but my attitude now forces me to learn from it and does not allow my ego to control the outcome of my mistake.

In other words, my attitude has become the mode of how I perceive everything around me. Yes, I would have to vote that attitude is the "be all, end all".

Thanks for listening.

Regards :wink:

"I am a aikidoka, and have been practicing for the past 5 years. For those who is unfamiliar with Aikido, it is a Japanese martial art of self-defence that promotes non-aggressive nature, in fact, we do not have competition at all, as it goes against our philopsophy and everything we taught by the founder"


"In other words, my attitude has become the mode of how I perceive everything around me. Yes, I would have to vote that attitude is the "be all, end all". "



Dear noel,
Namaskar.

Happy to know about aikidoka.Aikidika is for self-defence.By that negative happenings are expected to be inevitable which are to be defended. But the first mantra of our ZERO PATHOLOGY GANGA is:

Let us attain perfection and pleasures in the constant flow of the most favourable decisions and happenings to us and extinction of all unfavourale decisions and happenings against us instantly, perfectly, permamanently and spontaneously.

In this respect you are requested to join the thread "Power of thought" initiated by Rajat Joshi.

The second quote above does not speak specifically about recruitment and career development etc. Bala is asking about that. But your vote is in general. So please link up it to recruitment and career development.

regards

Dear Noel,

Thanks a lot for your article. I never knew Aikido. I could make out from your article that it is an art of self defence in a non aggressive way. Can I jnow more about this?

Dr Ji,

Thanks for raising my point once again - is attitude the only consideration for recruitment and career developement?

Thanks to Noel once again. Looking for more on Aikido.

Bala