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The latter years

As one ages having worked years in institutions and living through much experiences, one faces many dangers. The major one is the danger of institutional frameworks that limits thinking.  Working in institutions for decades one ends up having an institutional mindset and behaviour. “Institutional behaviors could refer to any behavior that is more common among individuals within an institution than those not in the institution. ... “ Usually the term "institutional behavior" is used for prisons, mental hospitals, orphanages, large corporations, and government bureaucracies.” But this affects people from all institutions.  We end up expecting a certain type of behaviour, following rules and regulations, policies and processes etc. These might be important but these  become behaviour traits and limits our thinking. Affecting our ability to think out of the box, the ability to innovate and be flexible keeping impact as the overarching direction. And if behavi...