Perceptual Filters

On 28th Dec, one of my mentors, Mehan sent me this message.

“Human learns through perceptual filters. And most of these filters are sometimes efficient but not favoring us all the time. Neuroscience studies show how a frog’s eyes (visual perceptions) work. Frogs interpret that anything BLACK, MOVING and have a particular shape is considered as food. This is efficient way for it to hunt down flies. But, a frog will die in starvation when it’s inside a box with died flies which are NOT MOVING. So, too efficient and too narrow perceptual filters will starve us of good experiences, even when we are surrounded by exciting possibilities and dreams or visions. The best way to break these limiting filters is TO ACT AS IF YOU CAN! By the way, how is your mental filter is functioning?”

Well, I think my past experiences; family influence, self-concerning and the environmental condition will definitely affect my mental thinking process to filter information and opportunities in my life. But for this moment, I wish to see myself grabbing all the chances if I can to learn more and more things so to add on values for myself. If I do not want to starve in my little world, I will need to change my attitude to become braver and keep trying for the best in everything. Braver to accept new changes and trying for the best to achieve goals.

Comparing to what I have read from an e-book “Mind Mastery”, It say our mental states determine how we create our world, we create our mental states by the way we represent things to our self. It is a link to mental filtering, where our mental states determine what we filter in order to create our own world? Let’s think about it, as we understand ourselves better, we can have greater success in our life.

Beauty and the Imagination

I was easily amazed by the beauty of nature. The sunrise, the sunset, or even the clouds is remarkable. Like this two pictures i took at Glory Beach Resort, Port Dickson, i think it is beautiful and it give us a lot of space to imagine. Imagine according to what we are thinking, and it will look alike to what we are imagining. The above picture, although is dark, look carefully towards the clouds, do it look like a mouse? Well, it's seem like a turtle climbing on a stone to me too. What do you think? ^^

Beauty and the Imagination

The beautiful view of the clouds on my journey to Taman Negara. It just like the sun we drew when we were small, a circle with some straight line around it, represent the glowing of sunshine. Look at that cloud, to me it's look like a barking dog with a little tail. Isn't it?

Perhimpunan Patriotisme 2008

During the holidays, i had to sacrificed some of my relaxing days at home to join a camp organized by my university named as the title head above.

At first, i thought it'll be a boring camp for me. But i am looking forward to it as well because i can spend times with my friends there. After all, i realized that it actually did convey some messages throughout the entire camp. Besides learning traditional dance "zapin", and first-aid knowledge, i got some other input that make me think about.

During a talk, the speaker told us that there are 3 level of power.
1> Feeling or sense
2> Believe
3> Knowledge

Sense lead to responsibility, pride, belonging, giving nature and others of human behaviors. What we got to do is be the best that we can be, where if we do the best, then the god will help us do the rest. Is it true? I think we just got to believe it, right? We are now aim to add values to our life, to get the ability of taking action, making things happen and the most important to put things into motion, with a positive matter attitude inside us.

Equation is given as :Mindset + Energy = Power
With the vision, and completing missions by keeping on path to archive the vision will make our life a success. At least it is what meant to us, to ourself.

"If you do the same things like others, you get the same results with others. So do things Differently!"

The right attitude

Recently, reading a book entitled "You Can Win". In this book it mentioned:

"The Calgary Tower stands at 190.8 meters. The total weight of the tower is 10,884 tons, of which 6,349 tons is below ground (approximately 60%). This shows that some of the greatest buildings have the strongest foundations. Just like a great building stands on a strong foundation, so does success. And the foundation of success is attitude."

So i am thinking about attitude. Am i having the right attitude? How to i know i am having a good attitude or not? So i asked this question, to myself and to other. Catherine told me, to determine whether the attitude is right or wrong, it is depend on the principles that one's is holding. Good principles lead to positive or good attitude and vice versa. But it is actually hard to say, because people have different values and if we have the similar values with them, then we will be consider having the good attitude as them.

So after all, can i say, to value the attitude actually is depend on each individual? One should be caring, confident, patient, and humble. One should have high expectations of themselves and others. One will anticipate positive outcomes. All this characteristic show a person with the good and right attitude towards life. Sound like i still have lots more to learn, to learn to manage my EQ, to learn to increase my IQ, so to improve myself to become a greater person.

Here sharing some of the optimist's characters:
1> Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
2> Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best.
3> Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
4> Give everyone a smile.
5> Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.
6> Be too big for worry and too noble for anger