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Keep one-point agenda.
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Focus.
(No other explanation is required for these two lines.)
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But from learning and experience, I can give two tips that are rarely passed on:
1. Stop watching television.
β Idiot box will always remain an idiot.
2. Stop watching irrelevant movies.
β People keep televisions switched and it plays on for hours and hours. Watch when it is a real need.
βThe focus is on smart phone and movies and other programmes π appear one after another.
βΆοΈ Irrelevant viewing or even television addiction will bug your thought process. Get rid of this habit.
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π Choose some good books to read. The books will help you develop your imagination and enhance creativity. Books will thus make you intuitive too!
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π§π§ When I purposely started calling television as idiot box (old analogy), my primary grade students used to wonder what I am trying to tell them; some would giggle too! And then gradually, as I would elaborate, they started coming to terms with it.
βΆοΈ This worked and many complaints by parents started reducing. They were at relief. Each PTM had this television-fever story which was seriously treated as I too had observed the symptoms in the classrooms!
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Imagination and creativity as a skill have been greatly emphasised by spiritual teachers all over the world. One of its proponents was Osho.
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When I was in Grade 10, one day our class teacher Sr. Jaya played his audio on the same topic and thereafter we were after these skills!
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Watch yourself, not the idiot box all the time!!