Think Big Dream High,E61- Be an Intelligent Person
Intelligence
1. An intelligent person is someone with a high mental
capacity, with good level of understanding, good memory and able to grasp the issues
in an instance, quick to analyse the underlying meaning of a particular
conversation or news, rational, a good communicator and smart in making
judgement and decision.
2. A person who think big and dream high should be capable
of handling any issues and problems that surfaced. The person should be able to
defend his ideas with confidence backed by well researched information. The
person should also be able to respond to any critics and comments with maturity
and effectiveness.
Reality in Life
1. It has become part and parcel of the culture in Malaysia,
that we like to talk but lacking in action. In public gatherings, at coffee
shops, at the mosques, offices, shopping malls, in the media or through the
blogs, we talk non stop, giving opinions, suggestions sometimes even leading to
arguments. The conversations maybe centered around politics, family matters,
artists, sports, current affairs or topics of interests and once in a while on
business matters.
2. As a member of the community, we like to talk since the
leaders are all the time providing us insights on a variety of issues especially
those relating to politics. The government and the opposition leaders are all
the time teaching us to talk and deliberating on topics of interest. Most of
the time, the TV and newspaper media, blogs tend to sensationalize on any hot
and juicy issues to invite comments from the public. As a loyal follower, we
joined in to give opinions and debate on the issues, irregardless of the actual
facts.
3. Most of the issues have no intellectual elements in it,
facts or truth of the matter. What is being offered is a sweetener, good to
hear facts, encouraging applause from the audience and sending signals to the
brain to join in the joy and laughter and making loud noises.
4. No party or person is verifying or checking all that we
present. In the developed countries, the leaders cannot deliver vague
statements. There will be parties researching and providing information in a
transparent, intellectual and accurate manner either in support or dissenting
the facts. Hence, the public cannot be deceived easily when the leaders sensationalized hot, sensitive
and interesting issues. As an example, if the presidential candidate discussed
issues on family, there will be parties producing information that the
candidate has an illegitimate grandchild. This is being exposed to the people.
If the people are still supporting him, it goes to prove that having a child
out of wedlock is acceptable and a norm. This is quite impossible as the world
community still has respect for religious values and legal marriages.
Tips
1.A
professional who think big and dream high should never practiced the way of
life and culture that does not accentuate having well researched information,
rational and intellectual that usually cropped up in the society as reflected
above. We believe in presenting the right facts, high intelligence, having
integrity, less talking but love acquiring knowledge and reactive. The
following exercises could help in disciplining us to continue intensifying our thoughts, capability and
intellectual capacity.
2.
Strengthened our memory. Memory training can be easily done through daily
activities such as reading, writing, making references and recalling things that
we read and write. Memorising the Al-Quranic verses is an effective and
beneficial training for the Muslims. We can start by memorizing the short
verses from juzuk amal say 5-20 ayat in a day. We can easily memorized the ayat Al-Quran
we chose by reciting it about 30-60 times. Repeat this memorizing steps
continuously for about 5-7 days until successful. Once we achieved our
objective move on to the next ayat and so on and so forth. The time taken will not be
more than 30 minutes daily. The best time to carry out the memorizing exercise
is after the solat tahajud and solat
witir at around 5 am daily. At this time
the brain is alert and fresh.
3.Strengthened our observation. We can strengthened our observation skills by
playing games such as carom, archery, walking on a tight rope, golf game,
tennis etc. These are some of the games
that require our fullest attention in order to succeed. Driving a motorcycle or
a car on the highway at a speed of 110 km per hour is also a form of exercise
to strengthen our observation skills.
4.
Elevate our level of understanding. The best exercise which might be against
the road traffic law is driving as efficiently as possible during heavy traffic by overtaking the left
and right lane and cutting que to find the fastest way to reach our
destination. Try to visualise or anticipate things that might happen in the future.
Train yourselves to make quick and fast decisions on issues that surfaced. Have
a clear goal and direction on things that you want to do and achieve.
5.
Elevate the flexibility of our way of thinking. Accept the challenge to carry
out multi-tasking as fast as possible. Start thinking out of the box or lateral
thinking. Avoid saying “it cannot be done” but put it in another way, “this can
be done using this method…”. Train yourselves not to make mistakes. These are
some examples of flexible thinking training.
6.
Elevate our capability in making decisions. Have a few choices and options
before making any decision. Making quick and accurate mathematical calculation
before making any decision. Do a quick analysis of the risk involved. Try to
simplify the solutions for problems faced. Avoid getting involved in
complicated, twisted and complex debate. Make the best all round decision for
our stakeholders. Decisions that are fair and justifiable.
7.Elevate
the research capability and learn from history. Make improvements and have an
integrity management. The Caliph, Saidina Umar Abdul Aziz once said, “If the
leader or ruler is rich, then the population will be poor but if the leader is
poor the population will be rich”. He died as a poor Caliph but in the 2 years
of his reign, none of his subjects were poor and eligible to receive zakat.
8. A
leader or a professional who think big dream high should look back and ponder
on the history of Caliph, Saidina Umar abdul Aziz. Do it with remorse and use
it as a guide in carrying out your duties as a leader or a professional with
utmost honesty.
9. The
rakyat is getting more intelligent and informative. The leader should also move
with times in line with the changes experienced by the rakyat. Wealth on a
moderate scale obtained in a transparent way can be accepted but not otherwise.
In any issues, programmes or projects priority should be given to the
stakeholders or the rakyat. These are the characteristics of a professional or
an intelligent leader that think big dream high. Rakyat is always the priority
in reality and not just a lip service slogan.