My Journey With IDIO
The funniest part of my IDIO journey is that it actually started with a missed class. The very first class was at 8 a.m. and when I saw HR on the timetable, my brain immediately pictured theory‑heavy slides and long definitions. In my internal ranking, if it had been finance or marketing, I would have pushed myself to go but for IDIO I casually decided, first class only, I’ll manage later. So, I slept in convinced I wasn’t missing anything big. By afternoon, I realised how badly I had misjudged it. Friends told me that Viji ma’am had walked into class with charts, not slides, and made everyone get up, write on them, and talk about what work and meaning meant to them in their own words. It apparently felt more like an activity space than a dry lecture. I had that instant FOMO and a bit of shame: the only class I chose to skip turned out to be the one that broke the stereotype I was carrying about HR being only theory. From the next session onwards, something flipped. I started tur...