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The New Normal:

COVID in 2021

ADITYA KUMAR the world is gradually coming
back to normal; free and fearless.
COVID-19 has brought us to a Now the question is, are we
very different and unimaginable going to live like before? One
phase of our lives. The fast- year is enough to teach us the
moving world has suddenly lessons that were untouched and
slowed down and moved several lost. Good health and hygiene
years back. The pandemic have become the priorities for
wave washed away most of the a safe livelihood. All these
happiness and paths to success. have become a habit that was
But there is a way out every not until a year ago; frequent
time; a silver lining in every hand washing, limited social
dark cloud. The year 2021 is gathering, regular use of masks
here with a ray of hope in the and sanitizers, and so on.
form of vaccines. If we look at It feels like we are finally
the past year, everything was winning the war against “Success is not final: failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts”. -Winston Churchill
so different, a far cry from the COVID-19. The immense
normal. Each one was forced support of the doctors and
to transform themselves to fit frontline workers has brought Failing Forward
an unfamiliar lifestyle. Social us this victory. They are our
distancing, masks, hand sanitizers; warriors who helped us in
these were all changes that would bringing a ray of hope in the
have been thought unimaginable darkness. The bright days are DIKSHA AVIRAL builds up resilience. It teaches
even a year back. Failure us how to get up after being
back with a new normal; the J.M Barrie, the creator of pushed down. Furthermore, it
However, with these changes, bright days are back in 2021. Peter Pan once said, “We are brings us humility. It helps us
all failures - at least the best not only not put ourselves on a pedestal.
of us are.” Truer words have gives us It’s important to remember that
never been said. Indeed, there progress is not always linear;
are but few successful people invaluable that success is not always linear.
who don’t exalt the virtues of
failing now and then. experience It’s very easy to be afraid of
J.K Rowling once noted that, failing and convince ourselves
“Failure meant a stripping away of but it also that even a minor failure is the
end of the world. Depriving
the inessential.” And so, it does. oneself of the option of failure
Not only does this “stripping builds up might help a person feel safe
away of the inessential” help and in control but being safe
us focus on what matters to us resilience. is never a permanent state of
the most, but it also opens up existence in this ever-changing
new avenues in our lives. There world. If we see failure as a
indeed is much to say about Gogh succeeded in his first monster, it will treat us as such.
how failure sets a person free. or even his second try at a Instead let us, for once, try
Vincent Van Gogh had to fail career, at success, the world giving ourselves the permission
at becoming an art dealer and wouldn’t have the enchantingly to fail, the permission to learn,
then a minister to even start beautiful masterpiece, “Starry to treat failure as a friend and
considering the possibility of Night”. Failure not only gives us
Changing Times picking up a brush. Had Van invaluable experience but it also fail forward to success.

Revive your creative spark

PRIYANKA R years, but a recent hype behind of empathy and understanding
the concept and its applications of the client and their needs. A
Design thinking is the art has led people to talk about simple five step approach is
of putting together ideas, innovation and its versatile used to make products of all
personal insights, innovative utilities. kinds, while introducing the
solutions to daily challenges People assume design thinking idea of learning by creating it
and converting them into to be a concept exclusively in the corporate world.
tangible products in what belonging to technology, but
is called a solution space. The traditional approach is
they fail to realize that it’s majorly focused on the economic
This scientific art is often germaneness can be implemented and business aspects while
misunderstood as another in all ways of life. missing out on the human-
name for a derivative design The concept of design thinking centred aspects. Innovation,
process that has existed in is far from the presumed round creativity and novelty in its “Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas”.
the past.
tables, windowless rooms, post-its utility are the founding blocks favour traditional processes to a company as is management
The term design thinking and highlighters but rather an art of Design thinking. This might over innovative techniques. to maintain structure and
has been in use for about 30 that requires a whole new level not be ideal to the people who However, it is just as essential provide sustainable growth.