Why I chose this topic to write on?
A research conducted by Deloitte says organisations are becoming hyper-connected; can they also become hyper-productive? In today’s hectic and unruly lifestyle what should be our mind-set – sincere or serious.
In today’s over-competitive workplaces employees are required to work faster, better, with limited resources, do more with less, to accept changes as they come and constantly invent new ways of working. The work culture is dominated by long hours, and employees experience permanent state of busyness with a long list of goals and to-do list. In a hyperactive workplace people are always “doing” but are never getting enough “done.” People are juggling to balance the work life and personal life; most of the time not prioritizing the personal life enough and working to the point of fatigue.
An over-hyper workplace impacts personal lives as well. I am writing my thoughts on the topic of this article what should we adopt sincerity or seriousness.
Workplaces are becoming hyper-active and hyper-competitive; people are connected to their mobile phones constantly either for work or for some chatter in between the work. The constant ping of messages keeps them plugged in to work chatter does more harm than good.
Sincere workers are happier therefore they contribute to quality service to customers, they are more productive, and they fit themselves easily into teams. Sincere workers are more loyal and more creative.
Sincerity is the quality of a human with an honest mindset, true and real. An example of a sincere person is one who really means everything that he says or promises. Sincere people are genuine in feelings. Their behaviour is minus hypocrisy and they don’t believe in misgiving of any kind on the other hand serious people are thoughtful and quiet. They are stern in appearance and do not laugh very often. They don’t talk much and are lesser friendly. Seriousness is different than sincerity. Sincerity is focusing on a task with enthusiasm and youthfulness while giving your best without worrying too much about the result. When someone gets serious about anything, one doesn’t enjoy completing the work. Seriousness is defined as paying undue importance to something, at the cost of everything else.
Seriousness kills spontaneity and destroys creativity because it closes a person’s mind to getting direction and candour. It makes the person dull and dead. When a person performs a task in a relaxed and lighter manner, his/her decision-making capacity gets automatically enhanced. The same task when performed in a serious manner dulls the mind. When somebody works too seriously and is obsessed with results, the person does not get optimum results.
A small story: Two boys were building sandcastles on the beach. One was thoroughly enjoying building his castle with sincerity and the other was seriously building his castle. After a while, the serious boy looked at the sincere and happy boy’s castle and got jealous because it was built beautifully. He kicked the happy boy’s sandcastle. Both the boys started quarreling. A monk was passing by the site. He told both the boys to stop quarreling. The monk told the serious boy that because he built his sandcastle seriously, he couldn’t use his creativity and zeal to the fullest. Whereas the sincere boy is naturally happy and he thoroughly enjoyed building his castle creatively and artistically with full zeal, therefore his castle was built beautifully. Our entire life we build sandcastles (our profession, work, relationships, and our hobbies). If build our sandcastles with spontaneity and sincerity they last long. And if build them seriously, we only become possessive and resentful if things don’t work out our way. So if you see your children, your peers, or your friends fight over sandcastles, ask them to be sincere, not serious. Seriousness kills creativity. It destroys spontaneity. And it works on psychological patterns.
Science has proved that when we perform a task in a relaxed and light manner sincerely, our thinking and decision-making capacity enhances. The same task when performed in a serious frame of mind it dulls our mind. Be sincere because it prepares the mind for other qualities. It empowers the mind to absorb other values to grow strong and grow fast. It helps us strengthen relationships, become helpful and to be nearer to God. A sincere human is honest.
