On Learning - SIr Ken Robinson's Bring on the Learning Revolution

As a believer of personal development and as an educator, Sir Ken Robinson's TED speak is very inspiring. Most of the time, we are being dictated on what we should be. Most of the students these days are studying courses that are either in-demand or because their parents said so. True to what Steve Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford speech. We should find our passion and do not settle. Here is Ken Robinson's speech.

Sir Ken Robinson's Bring on the Learning Revolution

On Living - Appreciation

When we appreciate even the smallest things, life becomes much better. I used to have a high standard about everything that I missed out on the beauty of simplicity. It is good to set high standard when we are aiming to achieve something, however, when we live life, why set standards?

- A simple cup of coffee shared with your friends is way better than you finishing it alone.

- Getting mud to your clothes to help build houses is better than having blessed without any handicap and not using them to help others.

- Simply watching a movie without any expectations and just learn from the story rather than trying to be a director and criticize every details.

- Bringing down your Ego and understand people from where they are coming from rather than using your pride and make life more miserable.

- It is not bad to dream of being rich, but be happy with what is given to you and at least you are alive to enjoy every moment that you can.

- Appreciate people as they are and not expect them to be someone who they are not.

- Appreciate life as we live each day rather than focusing too much on events that may or may not come.

Life is beautiful so once in a while we need to slow down in our fast phased world and just appreciate what we have.

Spirituality

When people ask me what my religion is, I always give them a "none" answer simply because I find religion too controlling. Rather than saying that I am religious, I would rather say "spiritual". Religion ties you to certain beliefs that is an either or belief. There are things that religion teaches that I question and I find that there are a lot of good beliefs from different religions. So why focus on just one religion when you can get the best teaching from different fields and grow yourself into a better person.

Others may believe in Jesus, others may believe in Allah, Buddha, Shiva or whoever gods they worship. Bottom line, there are still similar teaching from these religions. Each has their own beliefs and I am getting bits from each that suits my ideology and form my own personal connection with the creator. I believe that it boils down to your belief and your action against other who just claims to be religious because they were brainwashed.

On one hand, I have a friend who would claim that she is very much religious but she treats other people so poorly. She would instantly judge people and look down to them even being so blunt on hurting them verbally. On the hand, I have a friend who views these things quite similar to my idea (she was a mentor to me once). She would treat people like her equal and to some extent, she is more blessed and favored by people around her whatever religion those people believed in.

When we try to seek answers, we should get out of our comfort zone and challenge ourselves to take a step farther away from our comfort and never be afraid to learn things that can help us in the end. For those religious people, it is not bad to challenge your creator for when you challenge, you are seeking answers and when you find the answers, your beliefs will be much stronger and there will be reasons why you follow certain beliefs.

Enlightenment is spiritual.

Blogging

My new friend asked me why do I blog? She used to blog but felt like the world doesn't give a damn to her posts.

I simply answered her that I blog simply because:

1. I want to improve my English. English is not my main language. Also, I prefer numbers over words and if I can communicate with numbers, maybe I will do it. Since I believed in Carl Jung's theory of equality, I started to learn skills that I am not good at and English is one of those.

2. To share my insights about the world on how I see it through my eyes. Even though I am not that old to hold a wealth of experience to share, me being a thinker have been through quite a lot in life and my views came from my interaction with people, books that I've read, and my experiences in life. They may not be much, but my journey in seeking life gave me some insights that I wanted to share. I made my blog unknown to most so that it could be unbiased and it would be a coincidence once they were able to find my blog themselves.

3. My little way of leaving my thoughts and ideas to somewhere that if something happened to me, I was able to past something on. This site being unknown, would have a more significance when someone ended up reading this randomly. I believe that when we are bothered or if we seek answers to our problems, the world acts strangely by unconsciously showing us the answers to our problems. Hope someone in need would end up reading my insights.

A big Project coming our way!

Just had a nice conversation with a new friend. We met by her sending me an email saying she needs help on a project. Apparently, we were member of a certain online community and she randomly thought of sending me that email. I was hesitant at first thinking that her "project" might be another Multilevel Marketing Scam, however, upon hearing her case, it sounded legit and I agreed to meet her. It was a few weeks ago and the meeting went well. For some reason, she was planning to form a certain kind of group which had a noble cause. Her initial plan was about spirituality but she later on decided that a more general theme could help more people. I agreed to this cause spirituality is a debatable subject. Her idea was not really new cause I had encountered people who also had this kind of idea but wasn't able to follow through with their plans. Sensing her kind soul, I was drawn to her vision. I kinda shared the same vision but was just looking for other like-minded people.

Recently, she and I met up to discuss some ideas and I was quite shocked when she wanted me to be her partner in this project. I was hoping for a sit in the core group but never imagined to be kinda at par with her level. Not that I am underestimating myself, but more of not what I thought of as my involvement. I currently run two businesses and one of those business is quite a challenge since we focus on innovation on a ideas that are relatively new in the market, hence my time is focused on the management of this business. Going back, I said yes simply because of her kind soul and we share the same vision of helping as much people as I can.

Just so you know, for more than a year now, I am focusing on developing myself into someone better. My outlook is very much new and I am more positive than before. I am currently learning more on my social skills and NLP. Along my learning, I can see a significant change in my attitude and belief that I wanted to share these insights to people to help them live a better life.

Hoping for the best in our plans and I am positive that we will be successful in our projects. Maybe I really subscribe to Gandhi's teaching of being the change I want the world to be. I am changing and I want to make a change in this world. Kudos to our new project.

A Challenge

Life is indeed full of surprises. Just when I am really enjoying being single, that is the time when certain people show up making things harder to decide. I am meeting new people, developing myself, focusing on my career, and even giving time to my friends then suddenly there are women who came to my life or came back to my life challenging my decision on being single.

The first one was someone who I considered to be a "what if?". We separated ways because of circumstances beyond our control. I tried wooing her back a few months back but she was in a different state of mind. Just recently, she texted me and was way sweeter than before and it was like heaven. The second was an old friend I met once years ago. She was a friend of my friend and for some reason, she commented to one of my years old blog entry. Our communication started from there and she was also as sweet as an angel. The last would be an ex office mate which I never had a chance to talk to during my stay with the company. A few months back, a common ex office mate helped us break the ice and since then, we were communicating a lot. She is a wonderful woman and we do have a lot of common interest.

These women are marvellous, however, I am in a state of evolution. Currently, I am learning things that will help me grow to be a better man. Things are not as smooth as I wanted them to be but I am on the right track according to my plans. As of the moment, sticking to my plan is what I am focusing on and I will just hope that by the time I am ready, someone who is destined to me will appear. Who knows, maybe it will be one of them.