Setting the tone for the World Congress on IT and NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2018, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev has said being aware about ‘ignorance’ should be seen as a tremendous possibility to always be alert, and that it is time for the IT industry to invest on things that it does not know yet.
Addressing the packed house of IT leaders from across the world before the formal inauguration of the conference at the HICC here on Monday on the theme ‘Amplify digital and Disrupt the Core’, Sadhguru, Founder of Isha Foundation, said if one was conscious of one’s ignorance, his/her intelligence would always be on alert mode. Thus, being aware of ignorance was a tremendous possibility to explore new frontiers, he said .
Speaking on ‘Intelligence of Ignorance’, the mystic guru prodded the gathering through various insightful anecdotes that the IT industry was not merely about information.
“Repetitiveness in your industry is death. If you just accumulate information, you tend to repeat whatever you have been doing. For, your investment is not information, but agile intelligence,'” he told the captains of $186 billion IT industry.
Presently, the IT industry in India is still in survival mode, enjoying the benefits of human resources, and about 70 times or more business would go on hair products research than on neurosciences. “This has to change,” he asserted.
India entered the IT sector at a time where its concern was to help people walk out of poverty. “But now, time has come for at least a segment of you to invest on something that does not produce results tomorrow morning but will have long term consequences,” he said. Indian IT industry would be outdated very soon if it did not invest on ignorance, on things they did not know, he said, reiterating that “information would be outdated very soon in this world”.
Later in an interactive session, Sadhguru said ignorance was boundless and offered enormous possibility to quest for more meaning and new possibilities rather than taking comfort in the existing knowledge. A person’s happiness or sorrow was the result of his/her own thought process. “The human experience is happening within you — joy or anger or ecstasy — and don’t expect the world to fix things for you to be happy,” he said, evoking applause.
Earlier NASSCOM chairman Raman Roy introducing the guest speaker said human endeavour was all about doing and achieving things by questioning the status quo and belief systems.
For instance, Wright Brothers ignored the notion that human beings could not fly and invented aeroplane. But every invention and innovation was the result of going beyond being ignorant, he said.
