Leveraging the Power of Polarities for Leaders with Vinay Kumar

Have you ever thought, what is polarity? Have you wondered how it plays an important part in our lives, be it personal or professional? The concept of polarity is not that simple. It has many junctions and many meanings. Physics defines polarity as the condition of having poles or being aligned with or directed toward poles, especially magnetic or electric poles but in life, it is an extreme way of thinking. So the question is, what is polarity? To decode this, Vinay Kumar joined us on coaching matters this time to explain how to leverage the power of polarity.

Here is a transcripted version of the conversation that followed.

Understanding Polarity and Problem

At times in life, we want one thing and at the same moment, we want another thing. For example, when you are home, you find yourself enjoying home life, while you’re thinking, “My God, I should be spending more time at work.” When you’re at work, you’re thinking, “I need to spend more time with my home and my family.” On one hand, you want more certainty, more security, more sense of safety in your life while on the other hand, you also desire freedom and adventure. These things happen because we put in a lot of effort. We use the wrong tool and therefore we don’t get the results we desire. To get the results we want, we have to use the right tool for the right job and this is really important in in our professional and our work lives as well.

So what we often do is that we use life and work interchangeably, there are two types of issues and challenges we all face. And the difficulty lies because we don’t realize there are two types. We try to mix up the approach and it doesn’t work. Either we’re dealing with problems or we’re dealing with polarities. What we’re not exposed to is this whole topic of polarities because we’re not exposed to it. We’ll try to address polarity as if it’s a problem to be solved there, our lives are challenged. So it is really important to understand what is a problem and what is a polarity.