Trouble with Umer: A mentor-psychiatrist's analysis

His voice was full of certainty, affection, love and care. He was giving as if warnings to me of the deep, subtle problems (as we'd see), and proposed cure. He communicates the idea keeping his audience in his full grip. He knows you more than you do, yet with very limited knowledge. After all, he's a highly-qualified psychiatrist with a scholarly bent of mind. He said to me, commenting on my mental state in the context of my learning behavior:
  • Your priorities need overhaul and re-fixing, especially in what you study
  • Avoid intellectual distractions: You do multiple things at time ... get involved in varying disciplines, and this can make you utterly confused, as I have observed it, sometimes.
  • Look, brain is just like a child ... Like a child it slowly develops, it grows as a human being, it eats somethings and then it disgusts, finally reproducing (using that energy). Your problem is indigestion.
  • You have more than sufficient knowledge, but it's not systematized.
  • Complex things are built on simple, concrete ideas. Make your foundations strong by immersing in the thing in hand.

2 comments:

  1. Avoid intellectual distractions: You do multiple things at time ... get involved in varying disciplines, and this can make you utterly confused, as I have observed it, sometimes.

    lol! I was wondering one day, after having read one of your emails, that how exactly are you able to MANAGE SOOOOOOOOOO many things simultaneously! :)I cannot, seriously!

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  2. @ NA

    Buzurgoon aur ma'on ki dua'eein hain, ghar ki chai aur dhandi sarak ki barkat hai :D

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