Business Communication Lecture Summary: Friday, 28th August

The lecture started with reference to writeup by Gay Hendricks titled The Not-So-Common
Golden Rule of Relationships, professor Anupam Das called upon the class to put forward
their views on the write up dealing with interpersonal relationships and self-acceptance/self-
love.

Post which the professor made us delve into two videos:

Video 1: The video starts with a scene of a couple where the male partner notices that female
partners seems not in a good mood. Post which she says “Aaj mann nahi lag raha hai” to
which the male counterpart goes on and on as to why this happens, hearing the constant
blabber female gets irritated and hits him with a bottle and tells him all she needed was a hug.
The male now determined to understand his partner better; researches about women
behaviour and after a few days when she again says “Aaj mann nahi lag raha hai” he goes on
and tries to give him a hug which she rejects saying she needs medicine not hug. In third
scene when she again says “Aaj mann nahi lag raha hai” in response to which he goes on and
tries to give him a hug and also carries medicine for her but she rejects both saying she is just
tired. In the final scene the couple has parted ways and now is dating other individuals where
everything seems good and happy for both of them however after a time the female partner
says “Aaj mann nahi lag raha hai” and male partner reacts in the same manner as shown in
the first scene.

Post which there was a discussion on why things did not work between them and why things
keep on following a loop.

Video 2: The video starts with a scene where a boy and girl are in living room after their
parents fixed up a meeting and they are seeing each other for the first time. The girl clearly
specifies that she will answer only 20 questions and during the QnA both the boy and girl
turn out to be very different in nature and have different interest. However, at the end of
meeting the boy says he hopes to tell her mom that he has found his wife.
Professor paused the video moment for a brief moment took opinion of the class as to
whether the couple will marry or not.
In second part of the video the boys brought an anniversary gift for the girl reflecting they got
married.

Post which professor opened the discussion as to why their relationship worked out, the class
brought in different views like the openness of the boy, his trait of accepting new culture and
different opinions. This led the discussion towards persuasion and leadership.

Professor instructed the class to evaluate themselves using the leadership and communication
framework provided prior to the class which dealt with one’s dominant style of leadership ,
there Micro , Macro and Exo system.

- Jay Patel
PGP24/089