These are interesting excerpts from the new Megha-Lions book, dedicated to Politics and Statesmanship in the Indian state of Meghalaya, by Dilip Mukerjea:

WARRIORSHIP: CREATING AN UNBEATABLE MIND!

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye. 

Do nothing which is of no use. 

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. 

Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. 

~ Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer and rōnin

Fortifying 5 Key Attributes of Your Character to Develop Uncommon Resolve

1. DESIRE: 

It relates to ‘passion’ , where you must desire the winning outcome as if your hair were on fire! 

2. BELIEF: 

Starting with belief in yourself, you must extend it to having belief in your Vision, Mission, and Purpose in Life. 

3. ATTITUDE: 

You must possess and exhibit a positive “can be” and “can do” attitude, and have the skills to inspire and mobilise others with this ‘mindstate’. [NO soul-grinding negativity is permitted!] 

4. DISCIPLINE: 

With relentless dedication, you must be able to sacrifice all distractions and unnecessary attachments and commitments so that you can invest the required daily effort towards your goal. 

5. DETERMINATION: 

You must strive to cultivate an unwavering commitment to never quit: to meet the challenge, to stay the course, and to fnish the job! This is driven by an attitude of “will do” versus “I’ll try”

DISCERNMENT 

This refers to the acuteness of judgement and understanding , and requires you to be conversant with all five modes of thinking (see hereunder). 

In due course, you need to exhibit a sanguine disposition [cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident] when using discernment. 

There’s no such thing as ‘perfect thinking’ and there’s no perfection in ‘mastery’ either. 

To attain a high level of discernment, you must master your ability to recognise things like mind traps, and faulty logic so that you can bypass them and arrive at right thinking. 

This is The Warrior’s Spirit ~ you take nothing for granted , not even your own thoughts and behaviours. 

5 Primary Ways the Mind Thinks

1. DIRECT PERCEPTION:

The induction of schema, data, and information into the mammalian brain and directly perceiving it in a ‘present’-’power of NOW’ mindstate. 

2. ACCESSING MEMORY:

Tapping into the various areas of the brain to retrieve (recall) stored (remembered) information. 

3. ANALYSIS: 

Applying deductive reasoning to arrive at rational conclusions. [Note: Deductive Reasoning is a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true. Deductive reasoning is sometimes referred to as top-down logic. Its counterpart, Inductive Reasoning, is sometimes referred to as bottom-up logic]. 

4. APPLIED IMAGINATION & CREATING: 

Deliberately activating the imagination for new idea generation, using visual thinking, to create new designs in thought and imagery, formerly not a part of your mental repertoire. Creative Imagining comes alive when you access stored memory and its equations with possible external sources of previously unknown (or unaware) knowledge. This involves a DESIGN MINDSTATE: A design mindstate is not problem-focused, it is solution- focused and action oriented towards creating a preferred future. 

5. DREAMING: 

A series of images, ideas, emotions, sensations, and events occurring involuntarily, often in ‘illogical’ combinations, in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

This is a brief poetic excerpt from Dilip Mukerjea's  book, Megha-LIONS, which is dedicated to politics, leadership, statesmanship in the Indian State of  Meghalaya:

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free; 

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; 

Where words come out from the depth of truth; 

Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection; 

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it’s way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; 

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action; 

Into that heaven of freedom, my father, 

LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!” 

~ Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali: Song Offerings # 35

Dilip Mukerjea writes in his book. Megha-LIONS, which is dedicated to politics, leadership, statesmanship in the Indian State of  Meghalaya:

INITIAL GLIMPSES INTO LEADERSHIP WISDOM

DIOGENES ON BEING UNBEATABLE: 

The Cynic philosopher Diogenes was once criticised by a passerby for not taking care of himself in his old age, for being too active when he should have been taking it easy and resting. As per usual, Diogenes had the perfect rejoinder: “What, if I were running in the stadium, ought I to slacken my pace when approaching the goal?” 

His point was that we should never stop getting better, never stop the work that philosophy demands of us. Right up until the end Diogenes was questioning convention, reducing his wants, challenging power, and insisting on truth. 

MAYA ANGELOU ON PERSEVERANCE AND DEFEAT:

“There is, I hope, a thesis in my work: we may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody-twoshoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilised leaves. Less than that it’s just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats—maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats—but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.” Source: Maya Angelou, The Art of Fiction No. 119 

NAPOLEON HILL ON ACHIEVEMENT 

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

These are excerpts, pertaining to Creating Success in a VUCA World, from one of Dilip Mukerjea's latest books, where he touches on leadership and statesmanship, entitled MeghaLIONS: