Student Wisdom

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Student Wisdom

by Dewi Erita

Do you know, who are the several success CEO in Indonesia?

Do they have precious lessons for us? 

Today, I would like to talk about profesional wisdom. Profesional wisdom is usually defined as the judgment that individuals acquire through experience (Aswin Wirjadi). Why do we have to learn wisdom from profesional? Well, I think that many profesional wisdom relate with university value. Wisdom is like guideline to create student soft skills.

There are three wisdom that we can apply in both university student or company worker. Firstly, be realy-realy good at something (Maulana et al., 2009). Student should like their majors because they spend most of time at campus. If student love their majors whole-hearted, they will be expert in it. For instance, in last term when we did undergraduate thesis, several my friends asked some help to biostatistic student for analizing thesis result. There are fee for service. Those means that they are expert in biostatistic majors and become profesional people.

Secondly, listen, listen, and listen. Listening is something hard for most ofpeople. What is more, accepting the message exactly the same with the speaker mind is not easy. For example, when we did research group, we should consult our research report to our supervisor. Sometimes, our revised report was not exactly the same with what our lecture intented. Our lecture was disappointed and little bit angry at that time. After all, at the end, we got what our supervisor mean.

Thirdly, graduation is a journey. Half student thought that graduation is purpose. We should understand that graduation is not destination. If we set graduation as a purpose so after we graduate, we will stop learning. Graduation is a journey so that we can enjoy every moment in our steps. There are also others thought that make graduation more meaningful. In my opinion, graduation is a sign that we have learned a little more. Graduation means that we have changed to be a new character person. Graduation is like the door to go to another place.

To sum up, student are supposed to learn and practice soft skills that is trying to like their majors, listening actively what people said, and thinking that graduation is a journey.  Charles Darwin stated that "It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the most adaptive to change." Let us change our mind for developing soft skills to a brighter future.

Thank you

Depok, August 29th, 2017

Reference

Maulana, A.E., Alamsjah, F.A., Dilmy, I.A., Loeis, M., 2009. Indonesian Top CEO Wisdom Precious Lessons. PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Jakarta.

(This draft has been presented in UI Toastmasters Club regular meeting on August 30^th 2017)