This document provides an overview of self-awareness as an advanced startup framework. It discusses how self-awareness can be developed through practice and experiments like daily self-reflection and getting regular feedback from co-founders. Developing self-awareness allows founders to better organize their thoughts, control their mind and body, and access higher levels of thinking to generate original ideas. It also helps overcome the fear of failure. The document recommends spending 5 minutes daily self-reflecting and implementing a system of daily, weekly, and monthly team feedback to improve self-awareness and team dynamics over 28 days.

1. SV.CO
Advanced Startup Framework# 1: Self Awareness
Sanjay Vijayakumar

2. This is an advanced framework.
Usually taught in fifth year of startup.

3. ed because you need a lot of background knowledge to fu

4. What is that knowing which, you will know everyt
Part 1/5

5. Ans. Self Awareness
Your Awareness about your-self

6. Tests for Self-Awareness#1
If you always have a person inside you, talking to
you all the time and you are not able to ask him/her

7. Tests for Self-Awareness#2
You read a book and you are able to understand the
English but not the essence that is being conveyed.

8. Frameworks are important to
“organise thoughts” and give
founders “a sense of direction” in
their startup journey.

9. “Organisation of thoughts” happen in mind
and most people dont have control
over their own mind.

10. But dont worry.
Everyone starts at this point.
If you develop self-awareness, you will be
able to control your own mind and body.

11. If you can control your own mind and body, you
will be able to control other minds and bodies.
Tip: Use your power responsibly for positive
change. If not, it will come and destroy you.

12. Part 2/5
How is self awareness
generated?

13. A. Natural
B. Practice

14. Your current image of “your-self” is build using your vision
and hearing, of how other people respond to you.
So when you crack a joke, you look at how people
respond and then you know, if you say something in a
particular way, people will respond in a predictable way.

15. You have used “feedback” from others to
create your own self image.

16. A self-aware person is able to give
self-feedback and re-create own image
faster

17. Remember: Your brain is a very powerful and
advanced billion dollar computer that can self-
upgrade itself.

18. Reprogramming to upgrade this powerful
super computer brain can be done in as
short as 28 days.

19. Experiment:1
For the next 28 days, at the end of the day before you sleep,
sit quietly in a chair and rewind the whole day.
You will not only be able to see frame by frame but incredibly,
you will be able to see yourself in that frame.

20. You can then see everything you did and make
corrections or improvements to how you have responded
to various situations during the day.

21. Maybe you didn’t have to be too upset or too angry about
a “situation”.

22. You learn to see the situation, as the
“situation”, with you as an “observer” and
then instead of reacting, to a previous
conditioned response, you can jump back into
the situation and respond appropriately.

23. All of this happens in micro-seconds,and for the people
who are in the situation, they will notice that you didnt
react, but you responded well to the situation.
This is the first sign of self-awareness.

24. When “you give feedback to yourself”, your
feedback loop is exponential instead of you
getting a linear feedback from someone else.
Instead of X+X=2X, its X x X = Squared.

25. the next day, your brain improves much faster when it doe

26. Experiment 2
Giving and Receiving Personal Feedback
from co-founders

27. As young founders, giving honest feedback
to team-mates is very important to both
create team chemistry/ bonding between
members and having a team thats constantly
learning and improving itself.

28. Feedback can be +ve or critical (with
suggestions on how to improve)

29. Founders who have “Growth Mindset”,
accept the feedback from their trusted
friends and see them as opportunities to
improve themselves faster.

30. How to give feedback?
1. Start with positives
2. Bring out the negatives.
3. End with reiterating positives

31. Frequency of Feedback
Compliments on good work - Everyday
Work Targets - Once a week
Personal Feedback - Once a month

32. Part 3/5
How self-awareness will improve
your startup life by helping you
identify original ideas and
overcoming the fear of failure.

33. Once you reach a certain threshold of self
awareness, you can conquer the mind: the
pathway to original ideas.

34. All original ideas come from a
self-aware and curious mind.
Eg: Newton didnt read gravitation
in a book like we did. He read it in
his mind.

35. You will be able to access higher levels of your
mind.
Level 1: Subconscious - Instinct
Level 2 Conscious - Reasoning, Judgements
Level 3: Superconscious - Insights and original
ideas come from here

36. Eg: Insight on which SV.CO is build
“Academics don't want to learn”

37. Once you learn to do addition
or subtraction, you will be able
to add or subtract any number -
small or large doesn't matter.

38. Once you learn to build
one product, world-class,
you can then build many
world-class products

39. Once you learn to build one startup idea
well , you can build any number of startups
Tip: Like a baby takes 9 months, this takes
time so dont over-do this and burn out. Go
with the pace of the programme

40. Some of you will be able to go very fast -> you will
burn more fuel/life force.
Some of you will go at right speed - fast but fuel
efficient

41. You will have to find out for
yourself,
whats your optimal speed of
learning so that learning is fun.

42. Part 4/5
How to find our your
optimal speed of
learning?

43. True Learning makes us happy.
The brain rewards by releasing
dopamine - the chemical for happiness.
Your brain knows you have just
upgraded yourself.

44. So if you are learning at
the right speed, you are
confident and happy.

45. As the act of learning itself gives
happiness, you dont need any external
reward or motivation.
The action itself is the expression of
happiness, not the desire to achieve “future
happiness” by reaching a goal/target.

46. People with this personality are
called Autotelic.
They become independent people
who cannot be manipulated by
external rewards or threats.

47. These founders do their best in
any work and dont attach
themselves to the outcomes,
which they realise are also
dependent on external factors
beyond their control.

48. Because they are really
non-attached to the result,
they truly conquer the
fear of failure.

49. These startup founders
are the true entrepreneurs
who follow a mission to
create something of value.

50. SV.CO Mission: To build
an entrepreneurship culture
in society by helping young
students build startups.

51. Part 5/5 - Experiments
Experiment 1 (Personal): Spend 5 mins everyday to self-reflect
Let results come out after 28 days.
SV.CO Expectation: You will all have new improved version of
yourself.

52. Experiment 2 :
Team Feedback Daily, Weekly & Monthly
SV.CO Expectation: You will all have greater team
bonding and see improvements in working with each
other.

53. Read these slides as many times as you
want, as its very dense.
If you don't get everything right now, its ok.
This is an advanced topic so will take time
to make complete sense.

54. Unlock your mind…unlock your true potential