Success and Positive Thinking

[spogmai shaglay]

Intelligence is quickness to learn.

Ability is the skill to apply what is learned.

Competence is the ability and the desire to apply what is learned.

Desire is the attitude that makes a skillful person competent.

Many skillful people are incompetent.

Ability without the right attitude is wasted.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities

[spogmai shaglay]

Educated

Whom, then, do we call educated?

First, those who manage well the circumstances which they encounter day by day; and those who can judge situations appropriately as they arise and rarely miss the suitable course of action.

Next, those who are honourable in their dealings with all men, bearing easily what is unpleasant or offensive in others, and being as reasonable with their associates as is humanly possible.

Furthermore, those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not unduly overcome by their misfortunes, bearing up under them bravely and in a manner worthy of our common nature.

Most important of all, those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves, but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober-minded men, rejoicing no more in the good things that have come to them through chance than in those which through their own nature and intelligence are theirs since birth.

Those who have a character which is in accord, not with one of these things, but with all of them these are educated--possessed of all the virtues.
--Socrates (47~399 B.C.)

In a nutshell, educated persons are those who can choose wisely and courageously under any circumstances.

If they have the ability to choose between wisdom and foolishness, between good and bad, between virtuousness and vulgarities, regardless of the academic degrees they have, then they are educated.

[eyeliner]

^^ you said it.

[spogmai shaglay]

Did you write this yourself Spoghmai?

Not all Afghanprincess...

but i definitely add to it by elaborating in my words.....

if i would have written it completely on my own,, i would have posted it in the Creative Writing Section....i cant take credit for somebody else's writing..

[spogmai shaglay]

An expert is someone who knows all the answers if you ask the right questions.

What is a Broad-Based Education?

Some animals in a forest decided to start a school. The students included a bird, a squirrel, a fish, a dog , a rabbit & a mentally retarded eel.

A board was formed and it was decided that flying, tree climbing, swimming, and burrowing would be part of the curriculum in order to give a broad-based education.

All animals were required to take all subjects.

The bird was excellent at flying and was getting A's but when it came to burrowing, it kept breaking its beak and wings and started failing. Pretty soon, it started making C's in flying and of course in tree climbing and swimming it was getting F's.

The squirrel was great at tree climbing and was getting A's, but was failing in swimming.

The fish was the best swimmer but couldn't get out of the water and got F's in everything else.

The dog didn't join the school, stopped paying taxes and kept fighting with the administration to include barking as part of the curriculum.

The rabbit got A's in burrowing but tree climbing was a real problem. It kept falling and landing on its head, suffered brain damage, and soon
couldn't even burrow properly and got C's in that too.

The mentally retarded eel, who did everything half as well became the valedictorian of the class. The board was happy because everybody was getting a broad-based education.

What a broad-based education really means is that the student is prepared for life, without losing their areas of specialization or competence.

[Feroza_Banu]

my company hires people based on their positive attitude first.

[Abdali]

Hey Feroza, nice to meet you.

Well how can your company judge someone's attitude so quick?

[spogmai shaglay]

What a broad-based education really means is that the student is prepared for life, without losing their areas of specialization or competence.

we are all good or rather best at one or two things......its great to be specialized in a field... as its said...."Jack of all and Master of None" i always say we should be "Jack of all and Master of One"......

when we try to be Master of all... we lose our Masters in our specific area of specialization....

Rather then counting our weaknesses we should concentrate more on our strengths and try to make them even more stronger.....

[spogmai shaglay]

We are All Gifted with Some Strengths

The small size of the hummingbird, weighing only a tenth of an ounce, gives it the
flexibility to perform complicated maneuvers, such as beating its wings 75 times a
second.

This enables the hummingbird to drink nectar from flowers while hovering but it
cannot soar, glide or hop....The ostrich, at 300 pounds, is the largest bird but it can't fly....
However, its legs are so strong that it can run at up to 50 miles per hour, taking strides of

12--15 feet.

what if the hummingbird tries to hop........what would happen if the ostric tries to fly...........they are specialized to do these jobs and so are we.....

[spogmai shaglay]

Hey Feroza, nice to meet you.

Well how can your company judge someone's attitude so quick?

Abdali... i would like to answer this....i was waiting for her to answer...she can too....but i want to put forward my view on this....

its not only one company but all absorb people with positive attitude......positive attitude reflects in an optimistic person's attitude.....apart from that intreviews now are no more the typical interviews... there are problem solving questions or situations which are put forward to the interviewee and he/she has to answer it...and even group discussion that take place.......based on these group discussions and which participant participates and how, helps the interviewer to judge the right one.......

its as simple as how do u see the glass... half full or half empty...

[spogmai shaglay]

Ignorance

Illusion of knowledge is not education, but ignorance. Foolish people have a strange kind
of confidence which comes only with ignorance.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn to do things the right
way.

--Benjamin Franklin

[spogmai shaglay]

There is nothing wrong with ignorance, but making a career out of it is stupidity.

Some people accumulate ignorance and they confuse it with education.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is misery, tragedy, poverty, and sickness.

If ignorance were bliss, how come not more people are happy?

If a little knowledge is dangerous, so is a lot of ignorance which leads
to pettiness, fear, dogmatism, egotism, and prejudice.

Wisdom is nothing more than dispelling ignorance.

We live in an information age. It is estimated that the amount of knowledge is doubling every year. With information so readily available, it is easy to dispel ignorance.

It is sad to see that we are taught everything but the most essential things.

We are taught the three R's (reading, writing, arithmetic), but what good is intellectual education without understanding human dignity and compassion?

Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle.

[Feroza_Banu]

Hey Feroza, nice to meet you.

Well how can your company judge someone's attitude so quick?

Hello, nice to meet you too

Our company conducts about 3 different interviews from the same person. Each interview is about 2 hours long. the question they ask mostly pertain to their personal behaviour...only 1 of the three interviews is about technical knowledge the other 2 is strictly behavioral.

i am not saying they achieve their goal 100% but at least they do their homework before hiring someone.

[spogmai shaglay]

IGNORANCE... its like being a pigeon, as a pigeon closes its eye assuming that the danger or threat doesn't exist, not realizing that it only increases the risk of being in danger at risk for long....

Ignorance only aggravates the risk or danger...or worsens the situation which otherwise would have been dealt with easily at its initial stage....

its like nurturing the danger or risk by ignoring it and then when it reaches its limit, when confronting the risk or danger remains the only option left, then it becomes highly difficult to overcome the danger or eliminate the risk........

[spogmai shaglay]

Common sense

Education and knowledge without common sense has little meaning. Common sense is the ability to see things as they are and do them as they ought to be done.

We are born with five senses touch, taste, sight, smell, and hearing. But successful
people have a sixth sense common sense.

Common sense is gained in spite of, not necessarily as a result of, education. The best education without common sense is worthless.

An abundance of common sense is called wisdom.

and also Common Sense is not very common.....