Does Self Belief lead to action or action leads to self belief? In conversation with @Sidwarrier

22 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment of a conversation, Paridhi Dhingra and two other speakers describe a hands‑on motivational workshop designed to push participants out of their comfort zones and instill self‑belief. The session begins with a motivational talk, followed by a bar‑bending exercise where a six‑foot, six‑millimetre rod is placed on participants' necks and they must bend it by moving closer together. After the bar‑bending, participants are asked to walk across a six‑foot fire‑bed made of a one‑inch‑thick coal layer weighing about twenty kilograms, producing flames up to two feet high. The fire‑walking is framed as a metaphor for accomplishing the seemingly impossible. The facilitator, Indu, repeatedly fuels the fire for each of the eight participants. The workshop concludes with participants delivering their performance numbers, indicating that the physical challenges were intended to translate into measurable outcomes.

We had a motivational talk with them, of course, where we made them came got them out of the comfort zone. After that, we did bar bending with them, which is an activity where it's a six feet long rod, six mm in thickness. We put it on two people's neck and we make them bend by coming closer to each other. We did that, and after that, we made them walk on the fire. And after that, they did deliver their numbers.
Yep. Why did we make them walk on fire? It was a metaphor of this is impossible, right? Like walking, and how much fire we are talking about? We're talking about six feet long fire, burning
fire with
twenty kgs of coal, one inch. thickness of the coal. It's like a coal bed. It's not just sprinkled coal, and it's not just burning coal. So Indu would be fueling before every person goes again because there are just 8 people. So many times. So she's fueling diesel, so the flames are coming up 2 feet high up beyond your knees.
Wow.
And you gotta walk through that 6 feet, and these 8 people are walking through it, but before they walk through it, we put them into the belief.