Friday, January 28, 2005

Just be YOURSELF!

A good advice / story for today

Today is Friday. At 9-12 am, my friend, Sister Aniza and I usually discuss about our research and arguing each other in a way to make ourselves really understand about what we really doing to do with our research. We both now pursuing our studies for PhD but we both are not in the same research group. However, we both deal with image and that is why we ought that we might sit together to improve our knowledge.

After discussing about our research, Sister Aniza told me a story about her research mate, T. This guy was very smart. The way he did his research is by understanding journal. A few journals but he really understands them in details. It is because from there we might critic and then starts to think in another way round from the author’s point of view, which then also leads us to do new contribution to the world of knowledge.

Well, it is very hard to get an idea about new things or new contribution to the world. Just imagine you have to learn lots and lost and lots of new thing. You even should be strong with the fundamentals of your research area, and then it might be easier to you to come up with a new idea that none of human being has doing in what you wanted to do.

Well the keyword is a new contribution to the world. That was the target to get a PhD. Sounds like simple but very difficult and tedious and need lot of motivation. And the most problem that researcher deals with is time. However, as people are different from each other, we might have a special time to study. For example, I like studying when I got mood, usually early morning or at night. So T said, study base on your time as people are different from each other. He then told sister Aniza, his own experience when he first came to Soton, thinking of doing paper as all his research mate starts writing paper. The only problem was, what I’m going to write?

And T starts to change himself by his own way of studying. No need to follow other people. However, I would like to say that T is really a systematic guy. He know what to do and what to focus. It makes his own life easier. I do believe the key of success is
1) plan or set goals what you want to achieve.
2) Identify, what problem you got and try to solve.
3) Lastly, be yourself! Coz you have your own problem, and you have to deal with your own problem!


Just be YOURSELF!
DrPetunjuk76

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