Feeling true change from inside

Jan van Deventer

EISLAB

September 4, 2006

Goal of the lectures

• Discuss deep issues within the division

• Boost feeling of self-worth

• Boost interdependence

• Build a strong team

• Division gains international fame

Main reference

• The 7 habits of highly effective people– Stephen R. Covey

• My life

Jan van Deventer

• History• Origin

– Parents– Name– Religious– Political

• Dream• Work in progress

– Feelings versus rationalizations– Setting boundaries

Theory versus experience

• Validation of models

• Differential equations

• Partial fraction decomposition

• Small signals

• Forgiveness

Old woman

Young woman

Who do you see?

Who do you see?

Paradigm shifts

• Perception versus reality

• Being is seeing

• Principle-centered paradigm

Natural laws

• Gravity

• Time to grow

• “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them” A. Einstein

Timber

• Reactive language

• Micro-controller

Habits

• “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

• Habits– Knowledge– Skills– Desire

Warnings

• It takes time... (years)

• You hold the keys

• “We can bring a horse to the water but the horse has to drink itself.”