UMS lecturer shares PhD experience

LABUAN: A lecturer from Labuan Faculty of International Finance (FKAL), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Labuan International Campus, Associate Prof Dr Hanudin Amin delivered a talk about ‘PhD & Academic Success’ to local residents here yesterday.

This talk was held in conjunction with the Karnival Pendidikan Tinggi Negara held in Labuan from March 17 to 18 at Ujana Kewangan.

To be specific, Dr Hanudin asserted that education will make oneself an asset and not that of liability. Attitude, intrinsic power and golden rule are instrumental in determining one’s success in academic, he added.

The impacts of attitude, intrinsic power and golden rule, however, are more appealing should one embraces both God-loving and God-fearing (2Gs) in his academic journey. Youngsters are expected to grasp educational opportunities to improve career advancement and personal quality.

He expounded that attitude is a powerful measure and is of instrumental to determine the success and the failure of PhD journey. He showed to public mathematically about the term ‘attitude’ that makes up 100, given by A=1, T=20, T=20, I=9, T=20, U=21, D=4, E=5.

He termed attitude as the way of thinking to achieve a better outcome for certain benefits of tasks or activities. As such, he presages attitude as sick-up, drawn from the translation of the former in Bahasa Malaysia that is sikap - shared the same pronunciation of the latter.

Likewise, PhD studies require a holistic and comprehensive journey for a masterpiece. As intrinsic power implies, one should come up with a cogent ambition to reach something in this life, in return. Time, energy, money, effort and 2Gs govern the success and the failure.

He believes that individuals have no a magical power like a man-made hero but have the ability to cultivate the elements of good values, which are overtly a ‘magical power’ that impacts their patterns of thinking to stimulate positive actions.

He also shared some experiences pertinent to ‘golden rule’. In his mind, we gain respect by being respectful to others and this notion extends to one’s rapport with teachers, supervisors and fellow friends, among others. This also makes a PhD journey a success.

He concluded the talk with a quote that says ‘a glory belongs to everyone’, which is based on one’s desire that determines the academic acumen that signals the limbs to act positively.

The talk began at 11.30 am and ended at noon with a big round of applause by local folks.