SELF REFLECTION OF ADAPTABILITY (UHMT 1012)

ADAPTABILTY

            Adaptability is ability of an entity or organism to alter itself or its responses to the changed circumstances or environment. (Vaughn, 2016) Adaptability shows the ability to learn from experience and improves the fitness of the learner as a competitor. What I learn in this topic is how we can adapt to the new environment. Adaptability not just can be used in new environment but it can be used in new situation. For example, we never facing how to handle a new problem in our life. So, from that we can use our ability to adapt that challenging situation. From new environment and situation, we can identify our self-potential that how we handle it. Experience from new environment can improve our skill to handle once situation and we can know solutions to the new situations.

            Me as a student used this adaptability skill in the university because this is my new experience being in this place. Before this, I don’t know how the environment in university and people in there. So, this is my chance to use this skill. How adaptability can be used in UTM ? First of all, we must have a confidence to face new environment. If we don’t have confidence, we can’t adapt our self in there. We must believe in our self that no matter what happen we can do it. Self-confidence is knowing that you have the wherewithal to function reasonably well in the world. (Rama, 2017) We feel competent to make choices, competent to satisfy our needs, to chart the course for our life. Having confidence in specific situations, such as in gaining influence with someone, would flow from a general self-confidence about our ability to meet life’s challenges. (Rama, 2017)

      Communication is very important to help us being adaptability. Regardless of the communication type, be it public or interpersonal, body language and tone are important communication tools used to convey meaning and mood. At the new place, we must need some friends so, we need build a new relationship with other people. After we get some friends such as classmates, we must adapt with them. I mean we must be open minded and tolerance. For example’s situation, at discussion, we need to hear other opinion and not just us. (Arendale, 2016) We must be open to accepting opinions and practises that are different from your own. The communication brings people together, closer to each other. The communication is an important management function closely associated with all other managerial functions. It bridges the gap between individuals and groups through flow of information and understanding between them. That’s help us to adapt in classroom.

       Next, how we adapt in our studies? In class, if we don’t understand about once topic, we must ask the lecturer. Don’t be afraid to asking. That’s why we need a confidence. We can ask our classmates about that topic and make a discussion. Listen more is the way to learn how to being adaptability. When we are listens, we get more knowledge. It means while listen, we are taking in information that will allow us to select the best response in the once situation. We can use that information to adapt our behaviour as needed. In the class, we listen to the lecturer to gain more knowledge because sometimes the lecturer was telling about their experience so from that, we learn something. Respect others like when we do not treat others as we want to be treated, we can end up offending others who have different needs, wants and expectation from us. Respect can tighten the relationships among people. We treat them better so they can treat us better. It helps us to be adaptability in the situations.

        We must be flexibility to join any program at university or college. We came to the university not only to take a degree but we came here to gain new experience. From experience, we can improve our soft skill and self-confidence. Don’t just sit in the college and we must try go out to see people. Get out of our comfort zone. We must put our self into very different situations than those we typically encounter. Putting our self in unfamiliar situations such as travelling with friends or exploring a new interest or hobby. Operating in a variety of situations and roles will help us become more flexible and adaptable. As a student, we must become an expert at managing our time. We must be wisely at dividing our time between co-curiculum and studies. Learn to balance the time to avoid stress and tired. Trying to succeed in all aspects of life is great, but you risk ending up feeling miserable in case of a failure. If we created a balance life, we feel grounded, calm and motivated to be adaptability in any situations.

            Adaptability can be used in managing our financial at the university. For example, we facing problem about the money. Before this, we stay with family and everything about expenses will handled by our parents. But now, we managing by our self. This is put us in a new situation. We must be ability to find a solution to that problems. We can ask people who have experience to get some advice or opinion. We can do some part time jobs that can help us to get some extra money. We can join some volunteer activities that can help us to earn some money and at the same time we get new experience. To being adaptability, we must brave to face challenging situation. Don’t be afraid to do mistake because we learn from mistake.

         No one’s perfect, and making mistakes is a very human and very real thing that will happen as a student. While making an error can be frustrating, or even humiliating, it’s how we manage the aftermath that counts, and this phase that will help improve our adaptability skills. If we learn from our mistakes, share newfound knowledge and test alternative solutions, then chances are these mistakes will form some of the most important lessons we will learn throughout our university’s life. Don’t be afraid to failure like we don’t get high mark in test. Don’t make that as obstacles to our success mission. We identify our weaknesses and change it to be our strengthen. If we believe to our self, we can adaptable in that situation. We must stop waiting for the right time to change because when it comes to adaptability, there’s no right moment to be waiting. We have to take action to cope with the hard stuff. Adaptability is not a part of success but it is part of life. Although some people are adaptable to circumstances by nature, we can master this skill as well.  It will take time and some effort but it worth it in the end.