These past couple of days, I was intrigued to watch a quite long conversation between Maudy Ayunda and Mr. Gita Wirjawan on his YouTube channel and a lot of things, I can say, are such valuable lessons I've got to open my mind more about the meaning of pursuing dreams.
Firstly, our skills in foreign languages (not only English but also other languages) are still lacking, whereas we can learn new things by opening ourselves towards new knowledge and by mastering foreign languages, it can be a connection tool.
People who live in villages can have an extraordinary idea to build a business and can attract investors. Unfortunately, because of a lack of connections, such as foreign languages, they can't make it.
The more we master foreign languages, the more we're open to many opportunities out there.
We have to love our local and national languages, yet expressing our ideas in foreign languages isn't a bad thing to do.
Secondly, it's about a quarter-life crisis where we don't have a clear purpose in our lives. We all must go through the phase in our lives called a quarter-life crisis, regardless of what background we have.
It's still related to specific skills we have to support us in our jobs (maybe). At the age of 20s and 26s, we're too generalist to choose what specialization of skills we should improve for our lives.
I'm not a hypocrite. I really want to have specific skills in a field, yet I still love exploring many skills, and Mr. Gita said, "it's okay to have a late specialization because by learning many skills, we'll get used to using many methods to solve something." Honestly, it's relieving. Being generalist at least for this time, isn't a bad decision to make. Yes, it may lead us to a quarter-life crisis where we don't have anything to hold, yet it also leads us to the specific skill we want to be skilled in, in time.
Thirdly, it's about how education changes by simply changing the type of questions from close-ended questions to open-ended questions.
If a close question asks 2+2=..., it can be changed into why 2+2=4? It is an open question to train us how to have such critical-thinking in many aspects of life.
We won't be trained to just use a common method or formula to solve the questions, but we'll be taught the other methods we can use to solve the questions as well as the impact of using the method we choose.
Actually, there are many other things I wanted to write yet 3 essential points above is enough I think. 😅
So far, such deep conversations give me insight to learn more about what people actually think about something that's impactful not only for themselves but for others, too.
I believe that some people probably think that the way I think is too idealist in this practical world where actions are more valuable than words. Yet, I also believe that words are powerful enough to start a good movement for a better life.
Here I'd like to embed the link to watch the complete interesting deep conversation between Maudy Ayunda and Mr. Gita Wirjawan. Both teach me a lot. 😊
