Booting

Next week, ‘Unlearning Unlimited’ is conducting a three-day ‘Boot Camp’ for young students in Goa. Many people are intrigued by the word ‘Boot’. The explanation is simple: it is a camp primarily based on the principle of ‘Booting’ and in some ways inspired by the recruit training methodology.

Booting, in computer parlance, is the process that the system performs on itself when it is turned on. The set of operations begins when the computer is turned on for the first time or is re-energized after being turned off, and ends when the machine is ready to perform its normal activities.

Human beings, too, need various sets of booting to re-energize as well as to revive and refresh our own processes of purpose, attitude and approach. Booting is about planning, preparing and implementing all that helps us prepare. Every day, there are many occasions for booting: upon waking up, after a break, before the start of an intensive activity, upon a breakdown...

Booting has to be a regular act and more importantly, a complete process. For instance, when we get set for the day, we not only need some exercise, some cleaning and sprucing, some nourishment, some updating... but we also need to be better at the booting that involves planning, confirming schedules and looking positively forward to possibilities of opportunities and challenges.

Booting has to be done as well in the interim, when we are exhausted or we hit a roadblock... stretching, washing our face, re-nourishing and re-looking at the path and process will help revive and refresh. It must be a responsive habit of doing all that that to be done to be better in every situation. In fact, Boot Camps just acquaint the participant with the happy habit of booting... where the onus of preparedness and revival is on self!

To BE BETTER at all times, choose comprehensive booting...

Not only when forced to, but as an alert habit of fuller living!

- Pravin K. Sabnis

Goa, India.