Have you ever taken appointment to meet your mother?

Indians are stuck in their conservative and ruthless value system which has no future. The growing nation with the aspirations to become develop can not afford to preserve their old and ridiculous value system. Young vibrant and dynamic social values based on growth, happiness and enlightenment have to be created.

How many of you who are reading this blog have ever taken appointment to meet with your mother for one hour? What is the meaning and messages of this headline?

An Indian daily writes – I’m a mother first, then a CEO and a wife next: Pepsi Chief Nooyi. Other papers follow similar news article. Are these headings having any future?

And surprisingly this ‘mother first’ was given not to inform truth but given due emphasis to lure Indian ignorant readers. Indian dailies and intelligentsia are very busy in searching words and sentences to fool common people on the street. I doubt if many of you can even visualize these intellectual bankruptcy which is keeping the people in dark. I find them wide in open naked. Only nakedness has no value. We need to be cautious about its impact on our mind.

There can be many reasons for such reporting or writings going on in this country. But one reason could be the shortsightedness of people but other reason could be the sever lack of wisdom and knowledge at very high level in society. This lack of knowledge is the biggest handicap to achieve innovations and changes.

The paper reports directly from New York. I am aware about the other research related with parents conducted recently. Parents are also a selfish sole. They feel about children till the time they have hope. Parenst are a living being.

Due to my curiosity in such statements of Nooyi which are totally false, I read further. The gradients for achieving success and growth remain hidden. Nooyi named fifth most powerful women in the world by Forbes during a discussion on ‘Women and Global Leaderships’ organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Yale club tends to speak very general statements. She finds difficult at times essaying what she calls her most important role that of a mother.

“The other day, my 14-year old daughter sent me an e-mail asking for an hour’s appointment with me. The confusion and the worries over whether I am doing justice, make me tear my head. You want to be mother at the same time you have to take care of your career also,” she said.

Why could not Indian dailies give heading depicting some truth like as follows?

Mother meets with appointment with 14-year old daughter.

14-year old daughter needs appointment to meet mother.

CEO is confused and worried about her role as mother.

Woman wants to be mother.

CEO keeps career on top priority. And so on.

Nooyi said a woman has to play many different roles like that of wife and mother while all along keeping one’s career intact. What is so great in this statement of a CEO? Everybody has to deal with many roles. Even male CEO has to be husband, father, boyfriend, colleagues and senior or mentors for many and keep his job and profession intact. The role has to be many for any individuals. If women CEO have to do it is nothing great.

The reporting needs to be done based on more ground realities rather than on old conservatives feeling. The new trends need to be spread for the benefit of the people at large.

The fact is Nooyi remained in US for last more than four decades without even looking back home. Her aspiration was clearer than many. Her priorities were clearer than many CEOs. She could maintain her status by unlearning her ugly past with sever and brutal disconnection. She did it to succeed but that need to be known to people.

To be innovative is the biggest craze of the people of 21st century. Everybody wants to be innovative. The educated, well placed and good earning individuals are searching and devoting valuable time for innovation. But very few have knowledge of its internal ingredients. But the secret lies somewhere else. I firmly believe that there is an urgent need to unlearn past to become innovative.

I get surprise when people enter in domain of innovation through historically irrelevant characters and stories. The things which have been researched heavily, written extensively and propagated mercilessly have no innovation left in it. We need to look into more dynamic domain for innovation.

Unlearning past is tricky like learning must been just three generations back. Today we might feel comfortable to decide about learning needs but remain puzzled to find unlearning needs. But without framing unlearning needs, you can never dream to be creative or innovative.

Deepak Chopra rightly says that to create something new, the old has to die. When we are constantly recreating ourselves at material, intellectual and personal levels, what stops us to unlearn those irrelevant characters of history?

To create is to bring into being or existence. And to create something new, we have to die to what is. Something has to dies for something new to emerge.

“Every death is an opportunity for a quantum leap of creativity. Through death, we recreate ourselves at every level; the material level of the body-mind, the intellect, the personality. All of these have to die in order to recreate ourselves.” says Deepak Chopra.

Deepak says that with every death we store the wisdom of our experiences since the beginning of time and take quantum leaps of creativity so that we can look at ourselves again as if for the first time. I disagree with him. The things which are available today in 21st century were never there in the history of human kind. How can we store wisdom? Which wisdom is he talking about? The old wisdom which are stored have to be unlearned to be creative. And that is the challenge of innovation.

Deepak says many beautiful stances for unlearning needs but he remains quite away from reality. In biology there is a term called apoptosis, which means programmed cellular death, in the absence of apoptosis, cells forget to die and this condition is called cancer. Cancer cells don’t know how to die and in their quest for immortality, they kill the host body upon which they are dependent for their life.

Lack of unlearning is like developing cancers. Individuals, societies or nation which do not unlearn basically develop cancer and will die in the time to come. UPA governments under Sonia with phobia of Gandhi, Karat with socialism or BJP with nobleness are like a cancer for India. The cancer is going to kill India. Gandhi and communism are like cancer to the growing society. These cancerous ideas have to die from Indian minds to be innovative. These cancerous elements have to die for India to survive and grow.

Instead of focusing our mind, time and energy on irrelevant histories and characters, we need to let them die for recreating a new India. Innovation will emerge then. A new India with confident outlook will appear then.