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Ok, so, the last speaker.
It's a tough act to follow,
all the great speakers.
But, being the last speaker of
the day it's also, the energy level
has fallen already, perhaps,
I don't know.
It depends, I hope to keep
the energy levels up.
I'm here to talk about unplexing
your life.
So what the heck is unplex?
You might ask.
Unplex is the direct opposite of
complex, okay?
So maybe the last time you checked
the opposite of complex was simple,
but they changed it [LAUGH].
>> [LAUGH] >> It's unplex
going forward, okay?
Let me kick this off by asking some
intriguing questions, okay?
Have you ever had a suspicion that
your life events have some pattern
to it?
There are some some kind of
perceptible, perhaps weird pattern
that you can perhaps observe?
Maybe if it is something that is
not favorable to you, you might
have probably blamed it upon your
own personality, maybe that's
what is attracting these outcomes.
Maybe you thought there was
something even more sinister at
play, could be fate, [LAUGH].
So okay, so how about this one?
Have you ever woken up one day and
felt all anxious, worried,
but you didn't know really why?
Why is that happening?
[LAUGH] How about have you ever
been stuck in a mental rut and
wondering, is there a way out?
How about being stuck in the same
kind of emotions and feelings and
thought patterns and
trying hard to get out of it, but
not finding a way?
What if you could
do it at the flick of a switch?
You're able to have a different
thought, a different mindset, and
different perspective at will on
demand.
Is that even possible?
How about mindsets?
Have you guys thought about
mindsets?
This is a big topic in a lot of
organizations who are going through
cultural transformation,
there's a lot of talk
about mindsets, mental models.
Is it even possible for
you to visualize a mental model or
a mindset?
Would that produce some outcomes?
Is it possible for
you to deconstruct your mindset and
see what it is made of?
See how things can connect,
how your internal makeup is.
Would that give you some insights
about yourself?
How about an exercise with
your team?
Do you think that would change
the dynamics in your team?
Who knows?
Okay, I'll leave you with these
thoughts, ponder about it while I
flash my beautiful profile.
Okay, once again, for
people who don't know me,
I'm Joe Anthony.
I founded a small company called
Unplex Me, again.
It's only been a few months,
the offering of Unplex Me is
around inner innovation.
I'll explain what that is.
But prior to that,
I've been an executive coach at
large organizations.
The last one was a big financial
organization in Australia.
And then prior to that, at Telecom.
In a nutshell,
I have coached a lot of people.
I've kind of had the opportunity
and the privilege to work with some
great leaders.
And I understand human
nature to some extent.
The key insight that I've got from
all this coaching experience is
that humans are wired for growth.
We all want to grow, okay?
But we have different perspectives
about growth, but
broadly they can be summarized
into two kinds of growth, okay?
The first is external oriented
growth, the second is
internal oriented growth.
When these two kinds of growth
are not in balance,
things go a bit off kilt, yeah?
So what do I mean by external
growth?
When you pursue higher positions,
you want to expand your business,
positions, property, and
all those kinds of things.
I'm not disparaging it, but
I'm just saying that it needs to be
balanced with inner growth.
And at the same time,
if you just pursue inner growth and
you don't take care of your
externals, that's also not good, so
you need to balance it.
So what do I mean by inner growth?
The yardsticks of inner growth
are something like
your inner constitution, right?
How you processed your
everyday life.
What kind of narratives do you
build up?
What kind of narratives do you hold
about yourself, the world,
and the people around you?
This is what I
mean by your inner life, right?
What kind of beliefs that you hold?
What are the what are your values?
What is your sense of purpose and
meaning in life?
These are some of the yardsticks
which kind of tells you, if you are
able to clearly articulate this,
then we we can say that you're in
a good space within yourself.
How about the mindset?
Can you design your mindset?
Have you considered that as
a possibility?
Is it even possible for you to, or
is it something that happens by
accident and by default?
These are kinds of things that we
explore under the broad banner of
inner innovation, okay?
So this is called as the inner
growth, and inner growth requires
inner work, and inner work
is hugely amplified by inner
innovation, and Unplex Me is all
about inspiring inner innovation.
Okay, so let me just take a pause
and quickly get a sense
of the questions that I started
the session with, right?
The few questions that we
had before.
Can I get a sense in the room,
show of hands, if you guys
have ever had such thoughts,
have you come across that feeling
of anxiety without knowing why?
Show of hands, please.
Thank you, that's very encouraging.
Okay, that's great.
So maybe around 50%, that's great.
So, I'm in my coaching life
I've been taking a lot of notes,
I've been journaling.
I've been trying to understand more
about these kinds of topics,
and I've kind of accumulated a lot
of material.
So I'm at a stage where I think I
should be able to convert that into
a book, okay?
So the next plug is basically
the book that's coming up.
It's the same title as this talk,
Unplug Your Life, incidentally.
So, yeah, while this is coming up,
there's going to be an app that's
going to be published.
It's going to teach you more about
inner innovation and
personal mastery.
And the app is something that you
can use to immediately practice
what you learn from the book.
The book is about a few
months away.
But in the meanwhile,
if you want to stay on top of these
topics, please plugin to Systemic,
which is a group within
the Stanford lead workplace.
So Systemic, I started this about
a year ago, and we have a lot of
great things going on.
So if you want to stay updated,
yes, please join Systemic.
I only have 30 seconds,
is it okay to go?
Because I'm the last speaker,
am I allowed?
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] Okay,.
All right, so we've kind of
introduced a lot of jargons,
it would be so
unfair if I leave you without
explaining what these jargons are.
What is systems thinking?
Systems thinking is about looking
at reality, looking at the world,
to get a better and a deeper and
a fuller perspective of what's
going on around you, okay?
On iceberg is a great metaphor,
because typically when you look at
the iceberg, you're only looking at
the 10% of the iceberg that sticks
outside the water, right?
And in real life,
the events that we come across,
I'm just, remembering SVB,
what happened last week.
We only realized that it's kind of
readily apparent to us,
but there's a lot happening under
the surface in terms of patterns,
structures, and
mental models that we ignore.
Underneath all these events
are systemic patterns that exist.
And these patterns are created
by structure that have been put
in place somehow.
And these structures themselves are
a product of mindsets and mental
models and paradigms and such.
So this way of thinking and
looking at the world is what we
generally call a systems thinking,
at a very high level, okay?
In order for
us to study these systems,
we are visual and tactile beings,
so we like to visualize things,
we like to move things around,
play with it, and
that's how we learn, okay?
And systems thinking is
no different,
so you need something which
enables you to do these things.
And we have techniques for that,
which is called a systems mapping.
But drawing pretty pictures is not
enough.
You need to be able to apply that
in real life, and
learn from the application of it.
So systemic innovation is
a technique by which you actually
create mental models.
You apply it against
the real world.
You get feedback, and
you keep cycling through,
it's a learning process.
And this learning process is what
we refer to as systemic innovation,
okay?
And when you apply the systemic
innovation to your own inner head
space, okay?
To your own inner work, then we
call that as inner innovation.
So these are the high level
concepts that I want to leave you
guys with.
Call to action,
join systemic group, if these
topics are of interest to you.
There is an Unplex Me LinkedIn page
as well, feel free to follow that,
and connect with me on LinkedIn
as well.
Okay, so one more thing, I'm
looking for great coaches, who can
actually pick up these topics and
get involved in inner innovation.
Learn inner innovation and
be able to promote it in your
organization or in your space.
So if you are interested,
please get in touch with me.
If your organizations
are interested in trialing this,
in pioneering this,
please do get in touch with me.
Thank you, guys are really awesome.
Thank you, cheers.
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