{"id":373,"date":"2018-07-15T03:37:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T03:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2018-07-18T03:11:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T03:11:47","slug":"from-povpoint-of-view-to-pov-power-of-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/15\/from-povpoint-of-view-to-pov-power-of-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"POVer Shift:From POV(Point of View) to POV( Power of Vulnerability)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Moving the Needle from From POV(Point of View) to POV(Power of Vulnerability)!<\/b><\/div>\n
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In today’s context, to say that social( in the sense of the term social media) has gained significant currency would be a gross understatement.It’s all pervasive, inescapable and deep rooted, one can safely assume.<\/div>\n
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Once upon a time the theory(espoused by Kevin Bacon<\/strong>) that was floating around was about ‘\u00a0The Six Degrees of Separation<\/b>\u00a0‘ where one individual could connect with any other individual in the world irrespective of level, status or complexity through a chain of six human connections. That seemed a feat in itself. The advent of\u00a0social media\u00a0<\/b>networks like\u00a0Facebook<\/b>\u00a0apparently brought that number down to\u00a03.57<\/b>.<\/div>\n
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Now add another theory to the above. We are the average of the five people that we spend maximum time with is what we are being given to understand for some time now.That was in a physical world. Now, move that to a virtual scenario wherein our\u00a0social media<\/b>\u00a0contacts run into hundreds if not thousands of connections and we are all observing, contributing, silently following one another and not always for the right reason because the swell of opinions and information is just too over powering for one individual to withstand. Distilling the wheat from the chaff is easier said than done. There is ‘\u00a0status anxiety<\/b>\u00a0‘. There is the\u00a0FOMO\u00a0<\/b>at play(Fear of Missing Out)<\/b>\u00a0as well. In the relentless avalanche that straddles social media platforms, where is the real ‘ you ‘, the individual? Is your\u00a0POV(Point of View)<\/b>\u00a0actually your point of view? Or conditioned(by AI\/Machine Learning<\/strong> etc), pulverised, calibrated, engineered, manipulated to suitably conform, comply, stand in? Or are we falling constant prey to the supposed ‘\u00a0wisdom of the crowds\u00a0<\/b>‘?<\/div>\n
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Have we moved our butt so much from but naturally <\/strong>to bot artificially?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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We seem to be in a sordid vortex of an ‘\u00a0authenticity drought\u00a0<\/b>‘. Trying to project a chimera that is certainly not a wilful representation of our true self. The power of ‘\u00a0onlyness<\/b>\u00a0‘ that creates the distinct individuality the world so badly needs from you is just a fleeting mirage.<\/div>\n
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Given the context, a huge opportunity looms large. That is embedded in another similar acronym\u00a0POV<\/b>\u00a0but with a radically different meaning.\u00a0Power of Vulnerability.\u00a0<\/b>The true you, with all it’s mortal encumbrances. With the courage ‘to stand naked in your own truth’.<\/strong> No excess baggage<\/strong> of trying to be whom you are not. The YOU that only you can be and WANT to be.Where failings and weaknesses are welcomed as normal just as all the super Machiavellian in us. Where the human is permitted and motivated to be humane.<\/strong> Can we circle back to leverage the opportunity that is unfolding?<\/div>\n
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For organisations, brands, marketers, behavioural economists and all of those involved in ‘ social listening<\/strong> ‘, data science<\/strong> and analytics<\/strong>, what option would you prefer? An ambiguous\u00a0amalgam of over, untrue or misrepresentation or a predictably irrational<\/strong> version of what we humans normally are. The jury is out!<\/div>\n
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‘Tribe mentality<\/b>‘ is absolutely fine. That is the way we have evolved over the centuries.\u00a0 But don’t let that scuttle the ‘\u00a0onlyness<\/b>\u00a0‘ in you. As you move ahead in life, don’t forget to take\u00a0yourself<\/b>\u00a0along with you in the journey! That is the only baggage you may need. And there won’t be anything ‘ excess<\/strong> ‘ about it. It will be all ‘ access<\/strong> ‘.<\/div>\n
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Moving the Needle from From POV(Point of View) to POV(Power of Vulnerability)! In today’s context, to say that social( in the sense of the term social media) has gained significant currency would be a gross understatement.It’s all pervasive, inescapable and deep rooted, one can safely assume. Once upon a time the theory(espoused by Kevin Bacon) … Continue reading “POVer Shift:From POV(Point of View) to POV( Power of Vulnerability)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101,202,244,14,194,239,87,130,246,102,13,242,238,240,16,243,245,241],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ai","tag-analytics","tag-authenticity-drought","tag-brands","tag-data-science","tag-facebook","tag-fomo","tag-isd-global","tag-kevin-bacon","tag-machine-learning","tag-marketers","tag-onlyness","tag-pov","tag-six-degrees-of-separation","tag-social-media","tag-staus-anxiety","tag-tribe-mentality","tag-wisdom-of-the-crowds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}