Started my Master's studies and was doing a lot of reading on the web, and I came across this blog explaining on SRL (Self-Regulated Learning) and the author wrote about his/her learning on SRL to make sure it was well comprehended. I think it is a good way to try to write / explain something you have learned and if you can explain it well in simple terms that others could understand... it means that you have understand it well.
So for this first post after a long time, I will like to share my understanding on SRL -
SRL itself is a learning skill where the learners will, as its name, self-regulate their learning through reflecting their goals that have been set. They would monitor and reflect and come to aware if any fine-tune needed to achieve their goals better. Based on huge number of past studies, SRL is seen in few different aspects - cognition, metacognition, behavioural, emotional (or some call it affective) and motivational.
Cognition is the part where learners take acquiring new knowledge through understanding. Or in short, assimilation.
Metacognition, is more about awareness about one's own thought, or famously known as "thinking about thinking".
Behavioural aspect relates to one's attitude, how one react or respond to situations - optimistic, defensive, open-minded, coward, etc.
Emotional refers to the feelings - anxiety, happy, excited
Motivation is the energy level to do something. When someone is highly motivated, it means that he/she has high energy level to do certain task and vice versa. Motivation comes intrinsically from someone that has a burning need to do something and extrinsically to achieve something or obtain a reward.
Well, I still failed to write the above without any reference while writing...
But i'm making sure when I make further reference I comprehend it better.
Till then.
Friday, October 4
Monday, June 26
Steve Maraboli quotes
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
"The truth of your character is expressed through the choice of your actions."
"There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self!"
"Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on."
"The truth of your character is expressed through the choice of your actions."
"There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self!"
"Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on."
Saturday, October 8
Sunday, October 2
Organize ; Simplify
Nowadays we have many different kinds of information available almost anywhere and anytime, especially when you have the internet. Its easy for us to take all the information into our minds by just making judgement (strongly agreeing or disagreeing) with the information rather than really think how it can be well-incorporated into our lives. Personally think it is crucial for us to organize, simplify and only store what is truly important in a systematic manner in order to let the information obtained benefit us.
It is worth to invest a little time to organize the complex things readily available into simple things so that we can put more focus into less (but more important) things. Often, we want keep as much as possible information so that we do not "lose" any important information. It is also the fear that cause us to keep and consider too much info and complicates our thoughts.
Organize, may be lumping different but similar thoughts together, or put ideas together and view things as a big picture, etc - I have not think of any ways to simplify or organize what I have learnt, but on my way to putting my learnings into better use by organizing them!
It is worth to invest a little time to organize the complex things readily available into simple things so that we can put more focus into less (but more important) things. Often, we want keep as much as possible information so that we do not "lose" any important information. It is also the fear that cause us to keep and consider too much info and complicates our thoughts.
Organize, may be lumping different but similar thoughts together, or put ideas together and view things as a big picture, etc - I have not think of any ways to simplify or organize what I have learnt, but on my way to putting my learnings into better use by organizing them!
Tuesday, September 20
Give thanks
Gave a short moment to just focus on myself. Put away the people I know, the people I love, the people I loathe and focus on myself.
The moment I reflect on my recent life (say, a year's time), I have realised the thing that I am most grateful for, is to have known myself better. I could not gauge the progress of my growth, how good or how quick is it, but definitely, I can say that I am getting to know myself better, and that facilitated my growth. There are many ideas that I have had for years, I can feel myself starting to take (maybe small) steps to grow them into action, slowly growing the believe in myself that I can do it, and knowing my heart and soul better, allowing me to understand better what do I want to focus in life. I think it is the first and most important step to know ourselves, our truest hearts, inner voice, in order to grow into a better individual.
I am thankful for who I am and the things I have been exposed to that allowed me to learn, the number of walls I have hit before I understand better, the experience I have encountered to have a taste of life, the people I have met to help me understand the world better, the fears I have managed to overcome (which really "looks impossible until its done") that made me stronger.
TQTQTQ!
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The moment I reflect on my recent life (say, a year's time), I have realised the thing that I am most grateful for, is to have known myself better. I could not gauge the progress of my growth, how good or how quick is it, but definitely, I can say that I am getting to know myself better, and that facilitated my growth. There are many ideas that I have had for years, I can feel myself starting to take (maybe small) steps to grow them into action, slowly growing the believe in myself that I can do it, and knowing my heart and soul better, allowing me to understand better what do I want to focus in life. I think it is the first and most important step to know ourselves, our truest hearts, inner voice, in order to grow into a better individual.
I am thankful for who I am and the things I have been exposed to that allowed me to learn, the number of walls I have hit before I understand better, the experience I have encountered to have a taste of life, the people I have met to help me understand the world better, the fears I have managed to overcome (which really "looks impossible until its done") that made me stronger.
TQTQTQ!
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Friday, September 16
Facts vs emotions
Recently I have a handful of topics in mind for posting / sharing. Kinda start to understand why people say that songwriters are people who have gone through heaps of feelings or experiences in life. When you go through some things, typically tougher incidents in life, it just seems like you are swarmed with ideas of life. I thought it would be great to jot it down in the blog as it marks the thoughts I have came through as part of my life.
So we all know what distinguishes human from all other living things is that human have
(1) emotions
(2) ability to think
Lets start off with (1) emotions- In mandarin, we say that everyone has 喜怒哀乐 (happiness, anger, sorrowfulness and joy, generally representing the term "emotions"). It is a natural ability given to us, it is of course, perfectly fine for us to express our feelings and emotions by laughing, crying, or even being mad,however, it is important to not let it take over / override the logical mind. If the emotions gets to the extreme, depression, suicidal happens. We should understand that things happen in life for a reason, and it is always my favourite to "laugh see" life with this quote - "If its good, its wonderful, if its bad, its experience." We do, sometimes, let emotions decide our actions and cause us some pain. It is fine to make mistakes, but bear in mind that "You can never make the same mistake twice, because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, its a choice." It is not surprising that people can make mistakes over and over again , even though they reflected, knew their mistakes, but it takes huge courage to walk out of a comfort zone to do things differently. When overwhelmed with negative emotions, we should switch to the logical side of things and not take things too seriously, learn to forgive ourselves, at the same time learn from our mistakes and really integrate it into our upcoming days of lives, before walking out of the bad experiences and crafting another new part / chapter of life.
(2) The ability to think - this ability, is a powerful ability that makes us wiser if it is used correctly and in moderation. It is a balance point that we need to strive for, to not overthink, as well as to not neglect certain factors when making a critical decision. However, i think most of the time human complicate thoughts because they have emotions. Elon Musk shared a point on "boiling things down to the most fundamental truth" and " being less wrong" , which I think is a good start off point of building thoughts on anything. I always think that, facts will always be facts, truth will always be truth, no matter we choose to believe or cheat ourselves... The truth will still be revealed someday. We do not have the ability to predict the future, or ensure everything we do is perfect, so we kind of boil things down from its "fundamental truth" and just get to the point of enough confident to do something without second doubts or afraid of being wrong. Most people have great ideas, but they might not have the courage to overcome the fear of being wrong. Its a combination of several things to be a great thinker - not afraid of being wrong (try to just make it less wrong), have the courage to do it , constantly challenge the common notions of doing things, knowing the value of doing it and having a purpose of doing things.
It is, sometimes, hurtful seeing a love one decides to go with their way , knowing it is an "emotional" decision rather than a logical one (seen much clearer from outside the situation), and especially seen the choice causing some pain already... But maybe, it is another kind of love, to let them go with their free will to live the life they want...wishing them all the best... I can help the best that I can, with the best knowledge I have, and at the end of the day, it is a "choice" for everyone to go the way they want. I could not be in control of anyone's life, no matter how much love I have for them.
Before I end, i would suggest everyone that come across this post to try -
"Learn from the mistakes of others, as you won't live long enough to make them all yourself."
This is a challenging one, as it is always harder to believe from seeing or listening, until we feel / experience it...
Enjoy the lifelong learning. Learn, and act.
So we all know what distinguishes human from all other living things is that human have
(1) emotions
(2) ability to think
Lets start off with (1) emotions- In mandarin, we say that everyone has 喜怒哀乐 (happiness, anger, sorrowfulness and joy, generally representing the term "emotions"). It is a natural ability given to us, it is of course, perfectly fine for us to express our feelings and emotions by laughing, crying, or even being mad,however, it is important to not let it take over / override the logical mind. If the emotions gets to the extreme, depression, suicidal happens. We should understand that things happen in life for a reason, and it is always my favourite to "laugh see" life with this quote - "If its good, its wonderful, if its bad, its experience." We do, sometimes, let emotions decide our actions and cause us some pain. It is fine to make mistakes, but bear in mind that "You can never make the same mistake twice, because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, its a choice." It is not surprising that people can make mistakes over and over again , even though they reflected, knew their mistakes, but it takes huge courage to walk out of a comfort zone to do things differently. When overwhelmed with negative emotions, we should switch to the logical side of things and not take things too seriously, learn to forgive ourselves, at the same time learn from our mistakes and really integrate it into our upcoming days of lives, before walking out of the bad experiences and crafting another new part / chapter of life.
(2) The ability to think - this ability, is a powerful ability that makes us wiser if it is used correctly and in moderation. It is a balance point that we need to strive for, to not overthink, as well as to not neglect certain factors when making a critical decision. However, i think most of the time human complicate thoughts because they have emotions. Elon Musk shared a point on "boiling things down to the most fundamental truth" and " being less wrong" , which I think is a good start off point of building thoughts on anything. I always think that, facts will always be facts, truth will always be truth, no matter we choose to believe or cheat ourselves... The truth will still be revealed someday. We do not have the ability to predict the future, or ensure everything we do is perfect, so we kind of boil things down from its "fundamental truth" and just get to the point of enough confident to do something without second doubts or afraid of being wrong. Most people have great ideas, but they might not have the courage to overcome the fear of being wrong. Its a combination of several things to be a great thinker - not afraid of being wrong (try to just make it less wrong), have the courage to do it , constantly challenge the common notions of doing things, knowing the value of doing it and having a purpose of doing things.
It is, sometimes, hurtful seeing a love one decides to go with their way , knowing it is an "emotional" decision rather than a logical one (seen much clearer from outside the situation), and especially seen the choice causing some pain already... But maybe, it is another kind of love, to let them go with their free will to live the life they want...wishing them all the best... I can help the best that I can, with the best knowledge I have, and at the end of the day, it is a "choice" for everyone to go the way they want. I could not be in control of anyone's life, no matter how much love I have for them.
Before I end, i would suggest everyone that come across this post to try -
"Learn from the mistakes of others, as you won't live long enough to make them all yourself."
This is a challenging one, as it is always harder to believe from seeing or listening, until we feel / experience it...
Enjoy the lifelong learning. Learn, and act.
Tuesday, September 13
Just the way you are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everyone likes or wants to be appreciated.
In relationships, people often change themselves in order to suit a group of friends/ people or for others to like them better. They change their interests or liking, hide some truths of themselves that people may not like, and make themselves do what others would like them to do. In fact, everyone has to know that they have their very own unique style and it will feel much greater when someone appreciates you just the way you are. Do not be afraid of not having friends or people around you. Be yourself and the right people will just come by.
I often come across articles saying "love yourself". I think the term brings a deeper level meaning than just to love yourself. When you love yourself, you appreciate yourself as who you are and it will not be easy to change yourself just to suit other people. When you love yourself, you listen to yourself, know what you are capable and incapable of, what you like and what you don't. But beware, this does not mean that one should "appreciate" their negative behaviors such as being stubborn and stay with those negative behaviors.
All in all, be true to yourself, be true to life, and appreciate your unique self. Also, from time to time, take in feedback from people around you, listen to yourself, and always strive to be a better person.
In relationships, people often change themselves in order to suit a group of friends/ people or for others to like them better. They change their interests or liking, hide some truths of themselves that people may not like, and make themselves do what others would like them to do. In fact, everyone has to know that they have their very own unique style and it will feel much greater when someone appreciates you just the way you are. Do not be afraid of not having friends or people around you. Be yourself and the right people will just come by.
I often come across articles saying "love yourself". I think the term brings a deeper level meaning than just to love yourself. When you love yourself, you appreciate yourself as who you are and it will not be easy to change yourself just to suit other people. When you love yourself, you listen to yourself, know what you are capable and incapable of, what you like and what you don't. But beware, this does not mean that one should "appreciate" their negative behaviors such as being stubborn and stay with those negative behaviors.
All in all, be true to yourself, be true to life, and appreciate your unique self. Also, from time to time, take in feedback from people around you, listen to yourself, and always strive to be a better person.
Thursday, July 7
Monday, November 3
怎样
近期内应该做到的是
*好好努力 准备将近的考试
*花多一点时间陪家人聊天
虽然头脑浮现很多思绪 包括人生的路要怎么走 包括你 但全都须搁置一旁 好好为着来临的假期 先努力一番！
Counting blessings:
(1) The opportunity to be home to see my family doing well, although it is just a short trip.
(2) To have growing faith in myself
(3) To have no financial problems
*好好努力 准备将近的考试
*花多一点时间陪家人聊天
虽然头脑浮现很多思绪 包括人生的路要怎么走 包括你 但全都须搁置一旁 好好为着来临的假期 先努力一番！
Counting blessings:
(1) The opportunity to be home to see my family doing well, although it is just a short trip.
(2) To have growing faith in myself
(3) To have no financial problems
Wednesday, October 22
It is not that i have a lot of leisure time to start writing this post but because i have been acting very absent-mindedly recently and just want to have a peace of mind, even just for a short 15 minutes.
Let me begin by counting my blessings:
(1) I am very glad I've made it up to the final year final semester, with not-so-flying-colour results but constantly improving results.
(2) A heap of good friends to keep me in company to share my problems and happiness
(3) Supportive family which never fails to give me good advices
Busy with life, i always remind myself to find time to give thanks, to all things that happen to me, no matter good or bad. All of them happen for a reason. People say "If its good, its wonderful and if its bad, its experience." Life will never be too hard if we take it easy.
Recently feeling stressed as the deadline of thesis submission draws closer. Sometimes i just don't have the mood to write-up especially having to edit my work over and over again after meeting my supervisor. But i know i have to! 2 more weeks to the due date, i wish i look back again at this post thinking "Wow, that's a great job i've done!" so what i need to do now is focus on the things i'm suppose to do, and have fun whenever i deserve to.
Lets all just do our best in this one and only life :)
Let me begin by counting my blessings:
(1) I am very glad I've made it up to the final year final semester, with not-so-flying-colour results but constantly improving results.
(2) A heap of good friends to keep me in company to share my problems and happiness
(3) Supportive family which never fails to give me good advices
Busy with life, i always remind myself to find time to give thanks, to all things that happen to me, no matter good or bad. All of them happen for a reason. People say "If its good, its wonderful and if its bad, its experience." Life will never be too hard if we take it easy.
Recently feeling stressed as the deadline of thesis submission draws closer. Sometimes i just don't have the mood to write-up especially having to edit my work over and over again after meeting my supervisor. But i know i have to! 2 more weeks to the due date, i wish i look back again at this post thinking "Wow, that's a great job i've done!" so what i need to do now is focus on the things i'm suppose to do, and have fun whenever i deserve to.
Lets all just do our best in this one and only life :)
Saturday, August 30
Six keys to being excellent from HBR.org
- Pursue what you love. Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels focus, resilience, and perseverance.
- Do the hardest work first. We all move instinctively toward pleasure and away from pain. Most great performers, Ericsson and others have found, delay gratification and take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That’s when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.
- Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of time that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity. The evidence is equally strong that great performers practice no more than 4 ½ hours a day.
- Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses. The simpler and more precise the feedback, the more equipped you are to make adjustments. Too much feedback, too continuously can create cognitive overload, increase anxiety, and interfere with learning.
- Take regular renewal breaks. Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an opportunity to rejuvenate, but also to metabolize and embed learning. It’s also during rest that the right hemisphere becomes more dominant, which can lead to creative breakthroughs.
- Ritualize practice. Will and discipline are wildly overrated. As the researcher Roy Baumeister has found, none of us have very much of it. The best way to insure you’ll take on difficult tasks is to build rituals — specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.
Monday, August 25
Speed up, steadily
Today, we were told by our supervisors to get our projects done as soon as possible. Also, came to realise that there's gonna be lots of due dates in Mid September so i really need some ways to boost my productivity. Came across this video on facebook and the first rule is exactly the one that i need to comply with - limit distractions. In other words, i should INDULGE fully when doing something( no matter work or play), focus on that thing and not think about other things at all, no replying text messages, no daydreaming etc. A good motivation for me is to finish up my work ASAP so that i can get my ass back Penang during the next tuition free week!
Its the last semester of my degree life and most of the time my mind keeps thinking about how to fully utilise my last semester so that i have fun and also be able to manage my studies well, therefore, allthough it might be hard for me but my latest target would be BYE BYE DISTRACTION so that I could balance up time between work and play.
p/s: two other simple targets i'm setting is #1 To get rid of my hunchback habit, and #2 Eat Clean. Hope i would see the changes in me in two weeks time when i get back to my blog.
Signing off-
Its the last semester of my degree life and most of the time my mind keeps thinking about how to fully utilise my last semester so that i have fun and also be able to manage my studies well, therefore, allthough it might be hard for me but my latest target would be BYE BYE DISTRACTION so that I could balance up time between work and play.
p/s: two other simple targets i'm setting is #1 To get rid of my hunchback habit, and #2 Eat Clean. Hope i would see the changes in me in two weeks time when i get back to my blog.
Signing off-
Sunday, May 18
Mr. Right
Well, still too young to get married but stumbled upon this article and think it is worth a read:
http://elitedaily.com/women/20-qualities-the-person-youre-going-to-marry-should-have/
http://elitedaily.com/women/20-qualities-the-person-youre-going-to-marry-should-have/
Monday, May 5
Wise
In life, there are often decisions we have to make. How do we consider it wise or not wise? Should i take a nap, update my blog or study now? Should i attend the party or stay in for revision? This topic or that topic for FYP topic? Too often we are influenced by advises from different people : some tell you A is better and some tell you B is the best while others tell you both A and B are no good, choose C. There is no strict rule of what to follow, but to follow your heart.
Making a wise decision, to me, is to follow your heart while not hurting others. Recently, I have a serious problem when making decisions. Directionless. Doubts. Indecisive. Which should i choose? Which is better? etc... Sometimes i really hate myself for that. Even a simple decision, i would need to acquire so many different opinions from my friends or family before deciding.
Decisions which are related to my academics are the toughest for me. Well, yeah, they are not what major life decisions but i need to GRADUATE on time!! I desperately need to cuz i could not afford to fail (money-wise or time-wise). I know I have to be disciplined and work real hard to achieve that but sometimes following my heart, i could just play all day long. I've always been a slow student and yet studying progress gets worse nowadays as internet is a great source of distraction. Texting 24/7 and scrolling through facebook instagram have really become my (very bad) habit. Its stupid for people at age 21 to follow rules such as: only 2 hours internet per day or study at least 7 hours a day. However, i really need to limit myself and set some targets as due dates and final exams are getting closer and closer already.
Its week 9 of the final year first semester, and this post is sort of a reminder to myself cuz i need my discipline back: EE LING, PLEASE PLEASE WORK HARD.
Making a wise decision, to me, is to follow your heart while not hurting others. Recently, I have a serious problem when making decisions. Directionless. Doubts. Indecisive. Which should i choose? Which is better? etc... Sometimes i really hate myself for that. Even a simple decision, i would need to acquire so many different opinions from my friends or family before deciding.
Decisions which are related to my academics are the toughest for me. Well, yeah, they are not what major life decisions but i need to GRADUATE on time!! I desperately need to cuz i could not afford to fail (money-wise or time-wise). I know I have to be disciplined and work real hard to achieve that but sometimes following my heart, i could just play all day long. I've always been a slow student and yet studying progress gets worse nowadays as internet is a great source of distraction. Texting 24/7 and scrolling through facebook instagram have really become my (very bad) habit. Its stupid for people at age 21 to follow rules such as: only 2 hours internet per day or study at least 7 hours a day. However, i really need to limit myself and set some targets as due dates and final exams are getting closer and closer already.
Its week 9 of the final year first semester, and this post is sort of a reminder to myself cuz i need my discipline back: EE LING, PLEASE PLEASE WORK HARD.
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