Students of life
In view of the coming exams for the O'level and A'level students and the pending results of the secondary school students I've decided today to talk about focus. Focus has been discussed on antiphons before, but let us try to view it from a different perspective. I've once said that if you focus enough energy and mind into what you aim to achieve you'll most probably be able to get it, no you'll most probably amaze yourself about what you can do. Now, if you focus enough to be able to get something, is it also right to say that you can focus enough to feel something? Can focus be a way of controlling how we feel each day? Or even better can it be a way of positive enforcement in our beliefs at the same time inspire us to do better? Would it also be possible for our focus to be an inspiration to others?
Now as you all know i'm a big fan of stories so here's one pertaining to our discussion today. It is a true story which happened in China...
There was a little girl who had 80% disfunctional hearing. This means that since young 80% of the time she cannot hear properly or clearly. At the age of 7, probably during her primary one year, she had her first test. She went home with the test paper results in her hand and showed it to her father.
She got 1/10 for that test.
Her father, looking down at the paper smiled with the most warming and loving manner and said, "This is great!!! Look at this you got it correct!!!" Giving her hugs and kisses as rewards for that one correct answer.
She was inspired by what happened that day.
At the age of 10 that young girl was measured to be in the top ten academic students in the whole of China (just imagine the millions of children in China, it is really something to be in that top ten). At the age of 16, she graduated from university. Do you see what a difference in focus can do? What if her father had chosen to frown at the nine questions she had wrong instead of smiling at the one she got right? Wait there's more...
At the age of 17, she was invited to speak in the Congress in China (17, as guest speaker in Congress?!?!?!). And at twenty, she's already studying for her Phd.
What can we learn from this? When you do look at something, what do you focus on? Do you look at the many things you haven't studied and stress up or do you look at the things that you can finish and work on them? Do you look at wrongs or the rights? The ugly or the many nice and wonderful things in your life? Do you celebrate your successes or dwell in your failures?
What you focus on expands.
Now as you all know i'm a big fan of stories so here's one pertaining to our discussion today. It is a true story which happened in China...
There was a little girl who had 80% disfunctional hearing. This means that since young 80% of the time she cannot hear properly or clearly. At the age of 7, probably during her primary one year, she had her first test. She went home with the test paper results in her hand and showed it to her father.
She got 1/10 for that test.
Her father, looking down at the paper smiled with the most warming and loving manner and said, "This is great!!! Look at this you got it correct!!!" Giving her hugs and kisses as rewards for that one correct answer.
She was inspired by what happened that day.
At the age of 10 that young girl was measured to be in the top ten academic students in the whole of China (just imagine the millions of children in China, it is really something to be in that top ten). At the age of 16, she graduated from university. Do you see what a difference in focus can do? What if her father had chosen to frown at the nine questions she had wrong instead of smiling at the one she got right? Wait there's more...
At the age of 17, she was invited to speak in the Congress in China (17, as guest speaker in Congress?!?!?!). And at twenty, she's already studying for her Phd.
What can we learn from this? When you do look at something, what do you focus on? Do you look at the many things you haven't studied and stress up or do you look at the things that you can finish and work on them? Do you look at wrongs or the rights? The ugly or the many nice and wonderful things in your life? Do you celebrate your successes or dwell in your failures?
What you focus on expands.
posted by Steven at 7:25 PM
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