Dear Yi Jun,
MCA had raised the issue of many outstanding Chinese students who had failed to get JPA scholarships this year with the Cabinet recently. Without the scholarship, the excellent result’s students having scored 10As – 16As in last year's Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia couldn’t pursue their studies overseas. You are blessing.
When I say your blessings, not your troubles, the message is not to become complacent. If complacence was the message you got, then I would be guilty of faulty communication and you of selective listening.
To give you an example of selective listening, let me share with you a story I heard about a medical doctor who was invited as a guest speaker to address a group of alcoholic. He wanted to make a demonstration that would be powerful enough to make people realize that alcohol was injurious to their health. He had two containers, one with pure distilled water and one with pure alcohol. He put an earthworm into the distilled water and it swam beautifully and came up to the top. He put another earthworm into the alcohol and it disintegrated in front of everyone’s eyes. He wanted to prove that this was what alcohol did to the insides of our body. He asked the group what the moral of the story was and one person from behind said: “If you drink alcohol you won’t have worms in your stomach.” Was that the message? Of course not. That was selective listening –we hear what we want to hear and not what is being said.
Many of our blessings are hidden treasure – count your blessings and not your troubles.
MCA had raised the issue of many outstanding Chinese students who had failed to get JPA scholarships this year with the Cabinet recently. Without the scholarship, the excellent result’s students having scored 10As – 16As in last year's Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia couldn’t pursue their studies overseas. You are blessing.
When I say your blessings, not your troubles, the message is not to become complacent. If complacence was the message you got, then I would be guilty of faulty communication and you of selective listening.
To give you an example of selective listening, let me share with you a story I heard about a medical doctor who was invited as a guest speaker to address a group of alcoholic. He wanted to make a demonstration that would be powerful enough to make people realize that alcohol was injurious to their health. He had two containers, one with pure distilled water and one with pure alcohol. He put an earthworm into the distilled water and it swam beautifully and came up to the top. He put another earthworm into the alcohol and it disintegrated in front of everyone’s eyes. He wanted to prove that this was what alcohol did to the insides of our body. He asked the group what the moral of the story was and one person from behind said: “If you drink alcohol you won’t have worms in your stomach.” Was that the message? Of course not. That was selective listening –we hear what we want to hear and not what is being said.
Many of our blessings are hidden treasure – count your blessings and not your troubles.
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