Monday, November 17, 2008

The Power of Acceptance

It crossed my mind a few days ago as i was fully controlled by my tense to even study a thing for my last few papers. My mind was totally frozen for the moment to go on and for a second, i felt like letting go of everything but i know i couldn't. That was the last thing on earth i would have done.

Then at that moment i recalled back some sites telling about the power of acceptance to help reduce stress. What is acceptance and what does it got to do with reducing stress?Imagine a situation like this(this is based on a true story):

I'm a student in one of a local universities in Malaysia. I have a maths lecturer whom i would say need a serious attention on this. Whenever you approach him after lecture, no matter what question you ask him, his reply will be "go search from the library, you'll surely be able to find the answers"(18 syllables) rather than "sorry but i don't know how to answer you"(11 syllables) or "sorry but i'm feeling lazy to answer your question"(14 syllables). It's sad to see him not being able to count properly as a PhD holder in maths but well, that's not the point anyway. The point is as a matter of fact every single thing he teaches come from books. Might as well no need to give lectures and we all rely on books ONLY? With the power of acceptance he'll be able to accept that he's a lazy bum and find better excuses than stated above.

Usually it's not an easy task to accept that others are better than us in certain things. And this is one of the main keys to contributing stress besides thinking too much. I myself couldn't believe that i actually was affected by this. Upon doing that the urge to not do any mistakes greatly reduces and our performance in the real thing greatly increases instead.

Now that i've done with what i wanted to blog for this session i wonder should i change my title from "The Power of Acceptance" to "The pathetic maths lecturer"?

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