• Art of Living - Introduction

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    Welcome to the Course Art of Living: For Exploring the Beautiful World

    It has been perceived from the different evaluations that intellectual ability needs to be exercised in an effective way through scheduled practice and performance.

    Success comes not just from the knowledge and skills but also from behavior which can create distance between success and failure. And we can achieve expected behavior only by learning and unlearning ways of thinking that finally craft body language and ensure effective living in this beautiful world.





    Objective of the course

    The Objectives of this course are –

    • Self Confidence: All learners will have a strong belief that we all are inborn genius and that any dream is possible to achieve to create a difference.
    • Boldness: They will become strong with critical thinking & creativity to accept the unacceptable in the face of unavoidable challenges in daily life.
    • Equity with Empathy: They will have fundamental human & life skills including conscious self-awareness to learn and find how to do things in an empathetic and equitable way - a way that pleases the Creator.
    • Questioning: They will not hesitate to ask any question to unleash inner genius and the genius of local & global collectives, towards building a Just Daffodil, Bangladesh, and World.
    • Values: Learners will set, feel, and realize core human values and act with or reflect those in their daily life.
    • Learning to learn: They will learn how to learn & will be able to criticize themselves.
    • Peace & Mutual Happiness: All learners will achieve Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to create harmonious relationships with parents, family, friends & community in order to experience a good, peaceful, and mutually happy life.


    Final Outcome

    At the end of the semester SWBAT (Students Will Be Able To) – 

    • SWBAT know the necessity of Questioning, How to question, core values, and theories on goal setting for life. 
    • SWBAT create empathy, broaden the conception of people, moral concern, a sense of honor and decency, and strengthen responses to unjust conditions. 
    • SWBAT make humanitarian qualities as the basic tools for enjoying the journey from “I” to “We” to promote effective living in this precious world. 
    • SWBAT achieve competency to cope with rapidly changing world considering university as a place and platform to create knowledge and skills for their meaningful survival. 
    • SWBAT set her/his own goal for life with core values and can break down big goals into short term attainable goals. 
    • SWBAT evaluate situations & problems and can act like a resilient with empathetic and equitable way

  • OBJECTIVES 

     To enable students to live a happy-healthy life, in harmony with self & family, society & nature.
     To ensure tangible change in student's thinking in terms of their vision about happiness, prosperity and improvement in human relationship.
     To understand the ultimate role of education in transforming a man or a woman into a human being.
     To facilitate a holistic development perspective among students towards life, profession and happiness, based on correct understanding of Human reality and the rest of the Existence. Such a Holistic perspective develops the basis of value-based living in a natural way.
     Basic understanding about universal human values & ethical human conduct.
     Relationship between values and ethics.
     Values in higher education and professionalism.

    CONTENT TO BE COVERED
    ➢ Basic Human Aspirations: Prosperity and Happiness.
    ➢ Methods to fulfill human aspirations understanding and living in harmony at various levels.
    ➢ Harmony in the Human Being
    • Harmony in family and society: Understanding Human-human relationship in terms of mutual trust and respect.
    • Understanding society and nation as extensions of family and society respectively.// Solidarity in Family, Society & Nation
    ➢ Basics of Professional Ethics
    • Ethical Human Conduct – based on acceptance of basic human values.
    • Humanistic Constitution and universal human order skills, sincerity and fidelity.
    ➢ Professional Ethics in practice:
    • Profession and Professionalism – Professional Accountability, Roles of a professional, Ethics and image of profession.
    • Profession and Ethics – Technology and Society, Ethical obligations of Engineering professionals, Roles of Engineers in industry, society, nation and the world.



    OVERVIEW AND RATIONAL
    If we look at our living, it is clear that human living (our own living) can be seen as encompassing the following 4 levels:
    1. Myself
    2. Family
    3. Society
    4. Nature/existence
    Each one of us lives at all levels--whether we are aware of it or not, and each one of us wants to understand all these of our beings, or living. All these levels of our living need to be investigated for better understanding and performance. 
    Family, school and social environment constitute the three most potent factors in laying the foundations of personality and determining the character of a person to be a human being. 
    The development of human society in the last several hundred years has been characterized by a number of basic contradictions. It has brought positive trends as the rapid growth of technical and scientific knowledge, which has increased substantially the amount of information about our world that leads to a higher standard of living. But at the same time human being is confused with this huge pool of information like what to accept, reject or eject and continuously facing a psychological crisis. 
    “TRY TO TREAT OTHERS AS YOU WOULD WANT THEM TO TREAT YOU”
    We must, however, also consider the negative features of this development, which have dangerous consequences. The high, and still growing consumption connected with a rapid deterioration of natural resources and the production of enormous amounts of waste. 20 percent of the population now consumes about 80 percent of raw material and energy resources. Most of the population of the world lives in poverty. More than 780 million from the total of 5.5 billion world inhabitants are under the poverty level — in each minute 28 people die from hunger and people attempting desperately to survive destroy the surrounding nature.
    Expansive development is leading to the weakening or even destroying of national or regional cultures, which means irreparable loss of cultural diversity of human kind and restriction of its ability to react efficiently in new circumstances and leading thereby to a growing fragility and alienation of human society.
    Sustainable development — or perhaps more precisely a sustainable way of life — is concerned with a search for harmony between Human and Nature , society and its environment, so that we should achieve the ideals of humanism and respect for life and nature, as much as possible and in all temporal and spatial zones. 
    It is a way of life which searches for balance between rights and freedom of every individual and his or her responsibility towards other people and nature as a whole, including responsibility towards future generations.
    One can influence the conduct of others around him. If one is not like that already, it can be made much easier by just picking one virtue a day and specializing in it for that day. Doing that, they would all eventually be in. Now what do you suppose would happen if one were to try to treat those around him with - justness, loyalty, good sportsmanship, fairness, honesty, kindness, consideration, compassion, self-control, tolerance, forgivingness, benevolence, belief, respect, politeness, dignity, admiration, friendliness, love, and did it with integrity? It might take a while but don’t you suppose that many others would then begin to try to treat the one in the same way?
    The way to happiness is far more easily followed when one supports people with good will. SO DO NOT HARM A PERSON OF GOOD WILL.

Chapter 17 - Job, Work and Business Search Techniques in the 21st centuryFINAL EXAMINATION