Graduate Success Attribute

I will tell you what did I learn today, for exact what did I learn about graduate success today on 24 September.  The first thing that I learned is I have and I mean really have to be myself no matter what happened and got my own characteristic. As the guy said in the video that I had watched ”Taking a career without being myself, nah...". That time, that video had been carved inside me as a life lesson that I will take ahead through my journey in my life. The second, I learned that attitude is everything.  And this meeting is a kind of a reminder for me, and it hit me deep in my heart. Because it make me realize about something that should not and never had been forgotten. The first thing that I remember about attitude is that attitude makes us more respectable by others. As a word say "If you want to be respected, respect the others first." The second thing that I remembered from this meeting about attitude is that doing something good never harm anyone, either it is us or the other. Next, from this meeting a critical thinking skill is really needed wherever and whenever I go. Because as you all know, thinking is the basic skill for us to do anything, but that what not I meant. As I said before, what is needed is a set of critical thinking skill, that mean a set of thinking skill that can produce a good idea in a short quantity of time and in a intense pressure. This kind of skill is really needed anytime and anywhere, especially during our job and work. And I really know this kind of skill can't be gain so easily. It must be trained from time to time, from one experience to another. Then the fourth thing that I learned from this meeting and as important as what I state before is patience. For me, patience is another key to reach the target that we called success. Why? of course because patience related with waiting that some of us really hated and want the result immediately. Patience as we know it can't be gain easily. As the same as the critical thinking it need to be trained during our life time. And in my opinion, patience need more time to be trained than the critical thinking. Because during the patience comes calm which make the job that are you doing comes smoothly.

Before  I tell about what did have learned from the course so called Graduate Success Attribute, I want to tell about what is my first impression first about this course. On 24 of September 2019, finally enter the most strange which is the Graduate Success Attribute course. As a person in general, of course I wonder what is it about this course? and what I will learned from it?, and the most important question will it be useful for me and my life from today onwards?.

            My mind that thinks this course, the Graduate Success Attribute course was just a usual and maybe boring class was changed within 30 minutes. The slide was  simple and spectacular. But the thing that really draw my attention is the video that the lecturer showed to the class. A video about a really interesting interview. About how should we act during most of our times, and the video showed us too what is the important thing, and the thing is we should and we must be ourselves, and trust what was within us that god had gave us.

            So now, I will tell you what I learned from the course. The first thing that I learned was not something that was taught in the class directly. The first thing that I learned was something that I learned indirectly yet important, satisfying and a kind of a life lesson. It was "never underestimate other no matter how small or useless it is". If you think it is kind of obvious or you think everyone already knew it, well then I said yes. I knew maybe everyone already heard about that kind of wise word but I knew too not everyone had carve that wise word within their heart and mind. And as I said, the first thing that I learned is that never underestimate the other and it is well craved within my deepest heart.

            The next lesson after this is what I did actually learned during the class section. I will start to count it again from number one, and the number one is patience. Everything has its own time and place. And patience is really needed to get it. Some of us usually harsh on something and ignore the time to get it, and they want everything to be theirs ASAP. Most of the cause is they did not noticed the important act of time in the things they are chasing.

            By learning why the time is needed, may awaken our inner feeling to wait for the right time for something to occur. And that inner feeling is what we called patience. It was simple if we heard it just like that, but actually in real life this feeling is needed to be trained through an incident after another. And it was some kind of a journey itself. Well, rather than thinking about how long it will be, might we just try it and get along with it.

            The next lesson is the attitude or some of us may called it manner. Attitude is one of the most famous thing in the society and play a big and important role in it. Cause the attitude covers all part of life, from the starts of our day by waking up from sleep until we meet the bed and sleep again. Attitude is always the first thing that someone will look into you, to know either you are a bad person or a good one. And of course the good one will be more appreciated by other peoples. For example, someone who enter a house while greeting the one inside is more respected and will be served more nicely rather than someone who just enter a house without any greeting, even the guest like that sometimes will be kicked out from the house because he or she did not have any manner.

            After the attitude, there comes the mindset. In this course I feel somehow my mindset has been strengthened to be more nice to other people and realize about some acts so called to be grateful. With both of them combined there come peace within me and a believe on myself and the god that guide me all day long. I feel free to act to my maximum potential. But yet the best part has not come. The best part of all of this is the feedback that it has. Someone will help you back the next day for example. Or any kind of incident that you did not know it was coming.

            All of that is what I had learned in this course. Maybe some of the lesson that I learned may not be applicable in my work but I knew it was applicable in my life. In this course I did not search for an academic lesson but I do search for its life lesson. For me some of the assignment make me confused and make thinks why something like this need to be discuss. But deep down, I know it worth for something, and I will keep go forward while taking all the hidden lesson within.

            From here on, I want to explain on how will I improve or you can say advancing my learning. Cause you know all human do not to stay the same way and stand still in the same place all the time. The want to Improve and be better than themselves from the yesterday, and tomorrow is better than what they are today. And the last reason why we have to improve is because improvement is one of the life cycle itself.

            The first thing that I want to improve is my focus. Focus is a really important part in the system of learning, even for me it is the number one on my list. If you ask why, then just imagine when you do something but doing without focus. Your work may confirmed will be not as perfect as you plan, or in a worst condition it may fail and an accident may occur. To take my focus to the next level, I will start by thinking on just one thing at a time. And stop doing many things in the same time, cause it may break my focus and make me forgot on the thing that I have done or on what step have I reached.

            The second thing that I want to improve is my time management together with my time discipline. I need to improve both of this together because they are related really close and they needed each other. On time management, I need to improve my thinking skill to determine which time is the best to learn for me and to determine what lesson I need to learn first and so is the time to learn it. But, by just determining it, it is useless if I did not follow the schedule that I have made. So this where the time discipline come. By disciplining myself to follow the schedule that I have made, not only I can learn more lesson and tidy up my bad habit and make a good lifestyle. And so this is called a win-win solution.

            The third thing that I want to improve is my listening, my speaking, and my writing skill. Cause we all know this three skill is used to tell the people around us about our idea and to tell the others too what we want, like asking them, sharing thought with them, and etc. And this three skill is the tool to run the cycle. From the listening, to understand what the other are saying, we must listen carefully when they are speaking and think about what they want and about what are they really trying to say to us. In some condition, there might be some misunderstanding  because some people that had a really bad communication skills are eager to tell what they truly meant and give only a part of the information to the listener.

            The speaking skill plays the role afterward. After someone listen, they automatically  need to respond. As I said before, if the someone got a bad communication skill they might cause a misunderstanding or a miscommunication. And when that happen, something will happen. For example, if you make a miscommunication during an event you may cause the event to be ruin or make it screwed and less interesting that it suppose to be. To practice my skill in speaking, I have to practice my feeling to keep calm. Someone that keep calm while speaking can say what they want more clearly and also can listen to the others more clearly too.

            The last is writing skill. The writing skill may not be used as often as the others. But there are some words that can only be tell to the people by writing and what spectacular is that sometimes you can actually feel the writer feeling in its word. And I could say that is the magic of words itself. Writing skill can be practice but it will need more time and more effort to practice it cause we may not used it really often as I said before. For me the first step to improve my writing skill is to learn on how will I put my feeling in my words. Because it is the first step and the basic to make the magic of words came true. Next, maybe I will learn and memorize more words and expand my knowledge about the words dictionary. Then, I will learn on what word will be most appropriate to write in my writing. For sure the writing skill is the toughest for me to improve and I really know between this three skill, my writing is the lowest of them all. But I will try my best to improve it in the next semester.

            On improving the skills that I have mentioned earlier, I have faced some challenges and some trouble too. As you all know there is no word called  'smooth sailing' in the dictionary if you want to improve something. There will always be trouble and when you cleared it up another one will get in your way. The only think you can do is stand up and clear up the trouble one by one. If the trouble is big and hard to pass, you just need to be bigger and stronger than the trouble was.

            The first trouble I faced is the biggest one, one of the hardest trouble I met and this trouble is my main enemy in improving all of my skills and doing my daily routine. This first trouble is called Laziness. I think not only for me, for some people maybe for a lot of people laziness is their biggest enemy too. If maybe some of you still wondering what causes and how dangerous is this kind of trouble may cause until I said it is my main enemy, I will tell you straight away. First of all, Laziness is the very first thing you will face in the beginning of your day that is when you are waking up. The moment you open your eyes, you may hear some word like "sleep, just go to sleep, you are tired" or something like that. And the moment you think about it you will be asleep again before you know it.

            Laziness is a kind of a  mindset and a way how you think about something. So to fight this problem I have to fight it with another mindset. For example, if I think about how lazy I am to wake up and run the day as usual, then to fight it back I need to think about what I was searching in that day or about what target I have to reached or what will happen if I did not start the day as usual. And by thinking about that our spirit too wake up will come to us and we may be able to fight laziness.

            There are a lot of trouble that may I have faced or the one I will, but I think all of the trouble is caused by the laziness, and if I can get rid of it I really believe that I can pass many of the trouble, the problem and the challenges that will come.