Learning by doing..

Two separate incidents that caught my attention –

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I began sending book learnings to friends every weekend around August last year as a way of pushing myself to read. This soon became an initiative and when I look back, I see a marked difference my learnings now in terms of quality (in both content and delivery). Of course, that’s not to say they are amazing by any stretch of the imagination, but they’re definitely get better.

Good old trial and error. You never know until you try..
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The second learning is a result of many discussions. I decided not to attend my graduation as an Electrical engineer at NUS as a result of a lack of connection I felt with my course. Anyway, this has resulted in many questions from friends and family on ‘why’.. and ‘what if I regret it’ etc. While I don’t feel the need to justify why I feel so strongly against going, I did feel the need of clearly understanding my own motives and most importantly, I didn’t want to do something because I feared I would regret it 10 years from now.

To cut a long story short, it turns out that the big thing I’m missing is pride at my own results. Engineering has never been my thing and as a result, my results were never anywhere near standards I would expect from myself. This is nobody’s fault, it is what it is..

My mom had the best take on it after I’d explained the rationale behind my feeling this way(after some discussions with a friend), she felt it was a great learning to make sure I worked my ‘a&$e’ off when I got to B school to make sure I’m very proud of my graduation. Great learning indeed.. one for life to make sure that the standards set in whatever I choose to do are high – no excuses taken!

I like that – no questions, no judgement on my decision.. just a very deep learning. Thanks Mom! :)
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:)