How we react depends on our emotions not intelligence.

In a meeting, my colleague was complaining about the amount of work that her department had to deal. Nevertheless, she did not make it crystal clear the source of the over work. Since we are from the same academy, I jumped to conclusions, thinking that she was complaining about my department. Based on the previous experience with her, I was a bit emotional and defended my department. I gave her a call after the meeting with the intention to confront her. And guess what I got. She was not pointing to my department but other department and I spoiled her plan. The past experience and emotions do influence our decisions and reactions. Luckily, there was no hard feeling. This is what I have to practise

Open my mind before I open my mouth

Each emotion offers a distinctive readiness to act; each points us in a direction that has worked well to handle the recurring challenges of human life. as these eternal situations were repeated and repeated over our revolutionary history, the survival value of our emotional repertoire was attested to by its becoming imprinted in our nerves as innate, automatic tendencies of the human heart.

intelligence can come to nothing when the emotions hold sway

(Daniel Goleman, 1995: 4)

LAK-UTM FSSH LA Linguistics Seminar Series- Part II

Guest Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hanita Hassan

Chair of Language Academy,
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Member of LAK Board of Directors

Topic: Multimodality: Communicating with Eyes, Ears and Heart

Link: Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86366808916?pwd=cDRkbW54aVJkUkYrVnRHNWlMcFNPUT09
Meeting ID: 863 6680 8916

Passcode: LAK-UTM
Date and time: 18 March, 4:00 p.m. (Malaysian time)

CPD will be recorded

The attendance link to be shared during the session.

Charity and Poorness

It will be interesting to see how charity can eradicate poorness. As Allah’s promise in the holy Quran that charity will not make one poor, instead will make one gain more.

Those who spend in charity will be richly rewarded.

Al-Quran (57:10)

And this is a related quote by Anne Frank which has the similar meaning.

No one has ever become poor by giving

Therefore, keep on giving so that we can keep on gaining.