Positive Thinking - Changing your thoughts for a better life

This article is based on the speech about “Positive Thinking” was delivered by Prof. Daya Rohana Athukorala who is a senior lecturer of University of Colombo. He made this valuable speech at the UCSC auditorium, under Enhancement program for the 1st year students of UCSC undergraduate program on 10th October 2018.

As I understood, this lecture was mainly based on Positive Thinking. This speech has contained more facts and practical issues of 'How to face for the 21st century?' and love'  which those are very helpful to the young generation.

In the 21st century there is a huge growth of the world in technology and the knowledge. There are more outgoing graduated to the society as well in this era. To be a genius has become a competition by now. Fortunately or unfortunately we have to face this competitive world.

There are two types of genius people in the world according o the time they raise their intelligence. Pre-Developers are the gifted people that can perform from the childhood. Late-Developers take their time to spread their intelligence.

This era is about multidiscipline people as well. Multidiscipline is the ability to do different tasks through the variety of our own skills. The two sides of brain, left brain and right brain. From those we got the ability to do logical and the creative thinking procedures respectively.

There are nine types of intelligence according to the American developmental psychologist Howard Gardener. Those are,

• · Naturalist (nature smart)
• · Musical (sound smart) 
• · Logical-mathematical (number/reasoning smart) 
• · Existential (life smart) 
• · Interpersonal (people smart) 
• · Bodily-kinesthetic (body smart) 
• · Linguistic (word smart) 
• · Intra-personal (self smart) 
• · Spatial (picture smart)

https://blog.adioma.com/9-types-of-intelligence-infographic/

According to the Sigmund Freud, a man is a 'cod of habits'. That means others see us from our behavior and our behavior is come from the environment that we have grown.

He recommended a book to read ‘Law of Success’ by Napolian Hill, which has translated by him called ‘Diyunuwe Ran Doratu’. We have to make our emotional status stable and stronger that can’t be changed of the opinion of others. It is called emotional healthiness.

1. Love when conceive. 
2. Love and support from parents till the age of 8. 
3. Love and support from family, friends, and having fun till the age of 14. 
4. Peer group love till the age of 21. 
5. Self-Love happens till the age of 28. 
6. Relationships, partnerships, and romance. 
7. Giving unconditional love to someone who is depending on you. 
8. Giving back to your community. 
9. Giving back to the world - Broaden your horizons. 
10. Serving God

(reference - http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/beautyrecipes/LoveTanks.html )

If you’ve missed one of those definitely you should have some issues of your life. Don’t worry there are ways to recover from anything. Watch some matches at the stadium, watch some comedy movies, meditate yourself, be patient. That will fill your love tanks. Try to be a more mindful person from this point. Build your inner beauty as well.

Being a good person has no price. You can do an online personality test about multiple intelligence through this link,
https://personalitymax.com/multiple-intelligences-test/

Teaching in this century is called ‘teaching to unknown astronauts from unknown planet for unknown careers ’.
Being like a ‘War Tusker’ is good to maintain our emotional healthiness. Because we can defend others’ opinions with the metal body armor like the tusker. Don’t get misunderstand of me, it is not about getting advices from others.

We are very thankful to the Professor for spending a valuable time with us giving more valuable advices to have a brighter future and to face 21st century aright. Blessings for your longevity! Thank you sir.

-Asela Kotagama