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0:00 [Music] in this context let us look at our workers thriving are they enjoying are the employees and particularly the young employees are enjoying data suggests something very different I am quoting only two data points or two the findings of two survey uh Deloitte Millennial survey and one more survey it suggests that stress is
0:46 increasing like pandemic amongst the Millennials and generation disease who are basically 20 to 30 years of age they are regularly stressed because of the financial future uncertainty of the financial future well uncertainly about the welfare of the family uncertainty or job prospects day-to-day finances physical and mental health these are the reasons because of which young employees and young professionals even young students are suffering from distress and this data is almost coherent in the Millennials as well as the generations
1:32 if we look at the mental health data that also corroborates with this story the percentage people reporting excellent or very good mental health is not even half of the working population otherwise who are healthy people who don't have any serious ailment amongst those as well not even not even the half of them are saying that they are feeling very good and excellent in terms of their Mental Health so the question is can I stressed out an anxious mind learn be creative Innovative Envision the possibilities
2:17 and use the autonomy being provided because of the changing professional context for the bigger causes can a stressed out mind be a Innovative mind and if a stressed out mind cannot be Innovative mind or cannot Envision the possibilities how can it can take the real benefits which are presented to him because of the changing professional context the changing professional context can become a burden for the person instead of being an opportunity for that person and that's why we see the mental health issues are gaining attention and mental health issues are gaining more are
3:06 and the mental health issues are becoming more and more serious in the current times the number of people dying because of the suicide has already surpassed the number of people dying because of the accident Wars and terrorist attacks together this suggests that large number of people are not able to find meaning in purpose in their life large number of people are not able to manage their mind manage their emotion and they become so dysfunctional that their emotion and their mind starts working against them and as a result of that
3:51 there is a huge percentage of the people who are not thriving but they are languishing so this was the international data of course Indian data was in was incorporated in those studies but we were interested to know what exactly is going on in India what is the state of well-being amongst the Indian youth particularly those who are in the higher education so uh last year that means 2021 we conducted a survey across India and data was collected from different parts of India Jaipur Lucknow guwahati other Northeast State nagaland Jammu
4:38 Bhopal and all these spaces that I was collected from the students from different streams from ranging from engineering to law to Commerce so it was a pretty representative data this was uh the study we undertook with the support of icssr funded project and what we found that amongst the Indian youth population as well more than 51 percent people were actually moderately flourishing and 15 percent of them had the risk of slipping into languishing Stage about 35 percent people were actually
5:26 flourishing so there is a great opportunity for bringing larger percentage of people from moderative flourishing to flourishing Zone and preventing 15 20 high risk people in the moderately flourishing Zone in to rim to keep them there and helping them to not slipping into the languishing stage here we need to understand that to be flourishing means to be filled with the Positive emotions and to be functioning well psychologically and socially whereas adults with the incomplete mental health are languishing in life and they are with the low well-being so key suggested that languishing may be conceived of as an emptiness stagnation constituting a life a quiet Despair and
6:15 parallels account of individuals who describe themselves and life as Hollow empathy a shall avoid Etc so this is how we need to understand what is flourishing what is languishing and moderately flourishing meaning some elements of flourishing and some element of languishing so this was the as is situation in in Indian youth we also wanted to understand what are the factors which determine the languishing or flourishing or moderately flourishing state of uh youth population and what we found there was probably much more insightful I am saying much more because
7:00 the percentage of the languishing flourishing and moderately flourishing uh sample size is in line with the more or less proportion we have found in the other surveys conducted by Gallup and other social indicator survey organizations what we found we were we were interested in looking at what are the driving factors of flourishing or language so we looked at values state of family family cohesion connectedness of the person with the social cause their academic Excellence academic engagement we also looked at engaged living meaning their ability and
7:48 their perception about they being able to live according to their values because person can might be having certain values but might not have opportunity or the other emotional resources required to live those values so we looked at that aspect as well what we found there was self-direction in the multinomial logistic regression the self-direction was the major determinant of the flourishing achievement and self-direction were the only two values which were connected to flourishing which were influence impression and achievement had
8:34 interesting relationship if achievement increases as a value increases then it make people move more towards languishing so inherently it is the self-direction my ability to look at life identify my priorities perform according to that this ability this value was found to be the most important determinant of the well-being and you know what what was the second most important thing the second most important thing was social connectedness students ability to connect an ability
9:19 to perform for the social cause and their connection with the social purpose was turned out to be another major factor which was resulting into which had a highest association with the flourishing family cohesion has the ability to prevent people slipping into languishing but that is more closely related to moderately flourishing the family equation was able to explain more number of cases more than 80 cases of the moderately flourishing Zone rather than flourishing Zone they were explaining about 19 20 percent of the flourishing Zone population but explaining 80 percent of the body
10:06 pollution population but these this study again strengthened our idea and strengthen our idea so this study also strengthened our idea to float this course and design this course and to be fruited at this platform because flourishing is determined by self-direction so any course on self-management is about attaining highest level of personal well-being any course on self-management or career management is intricately connected to well-being and well-being is found to be
10:51 deeply connected to flourishing it is actually expressed through flourishing and lack of well-being is expressed through languishing and these things are deeply connected to the agency my ability to look at my situation and take action reflect upon it and take action that's why of course on the self-management need to look at need to be based on well-being and it has to strengthen the agencies have to strengthen the self-efficacy it has to work on people to to become much more aware of their life situation and their life choices so all these findings
11:37 goes back to the age-old wisdom of bhagavad-gita which says that I am my Foe and I am my friend this self is the Foo and friend of itself so it is the self only which has to work for the self-management and self-improvement brotherly person this self is both it is friend and poor
12:24 so Elevate yourself through the power of yourself that is the message that is the old message coming from the wisdom tradition and that is substantiated by our most recent research about the well-being in the youth population as well [Music] thank you foreign [Music]
