Ashok Rajgurus Case

                                                            CASE STUDY

Problem Statement

Ashok is connected either with physics or politics, wants to do something really worthwhile and creative, not merely in physics but in any field. He has very serious doubts as to whether it is worth it. He feels it’s impossible to make contributions in physics without dedicating most of your time to it. He goes into the library and reads all sorts of other things expect and he feels very guilty about it afterwards.

One of the things that bothers him a lot is he feels that he is shirking some of his family responsibilities and this would be all right if he is able to do something successful with the time he has taken. And another thing that keeps bothering him is the lack of competitive motivation.  When he was at school - people by and large have a desire to excel. Now when he goes to a class and have to take an exam - it just does not bother him if he gets fourth in a class of seven. Now he lacks one of the strongest elements in motivation that to excel.

Knowing for the sake of knowing has gone too. He opens a book in physics and read five pages and find it tough going so I just leave it.

He thinks that human relations are much more important than he used to think even two years ago. He also feels that if he could find satisfaction in human relations, who are more important to him than they were two years ago, then that might revive his interest in things.

He took family relations for granted because they were there and, therefore, he could be totally immersed in physics.  Now he feels their lack.  He realizes how important they were to him and since he can't now find fulfillment he lacks interest in other things too. And also the feedback process that he had at school is now absent. He realizes more and more how important that (supportive feedback and satisfying human relationships)

The absence of rich human relationships makes it impossible for him to fling himself. And this inability to correct human relationships won't permit him to devote the amount of attention to physics that he would want to. His present situation is that the absence of one leads to the absence of the other, so that he is in a state of total absence.  

Solution

The case study reveals the personality trait of Ashok to be ISFJ (Introvert Sensing Feeling Judgement).The type of family which he was brought up it was quite a virtue to be non-aggressive. One of the ways in which he has to change is to be a little more aggressive, the way people are here, specifically in connection with getting to know people (From introvert to being extrovert).