LATE BLOOMERS
Why do we equate genius with precocity?
by Malcolm Gladwell
OCTOBER 20, 2008
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KEYWORDS
Late Bloomers; Fountain, Ben; Foer, Jonathan Safran; Writers; Picasso, Pablo; Cézanne, Paul; Galenson, David
en Fountain was an associate in the real-estate practice at the Dallas offices of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, just a few years out of law school, when he decided he wanted to write fiction. The only thing Fountain had ever published was a law-review article. His literary training consisted of a handful of creative-writing classes in college. He had tried to write when he came home at night from work, but usually he was too tired to do much. He decided to quit his job.
“I was tremendously apprehensive,” Fountain recalls. “I felt like I’d stepped off a cliff and I didn’t know if the parachute was going to open. Nobody wants to waste their life, and I was doing well at the practice of law. I could have had a good career. And my parents were very proud of me—my dad was so proud of me. . . . It was crazy.”
He began his new life on a February morning—a Monday. He sat down at his kitchen table at 7:30 A.M. He made a plan. Every day, he would write until lunchtime. Then he would lie down on the floor for twenty minutes to rest his mind. Then he would return to work for a few more hours. He was a lawyer. He had discipline. “I figured out very early on that if I didn’t get my writing done I felt terrible. So I always got my writing done. I treated it like a job. I did not procrastinate.” His first story was about a stockbroker who uses inside information and crosses a moral line. It was sixty pages long and took him three months to write. When he finished that story, he went back to work and wrote another—and then another.
In his first year, Fountain sold two stories. He gained confidence. He wrote a novel. He decided it wasn’t very good, and he ended up putting it in a drawer. Then came what he describes as his dark period, when he adjusted his expectations and started again. He got a short story published in Harper’s. A New York literary agent saw it and signed him up. He put together a collection of short stories titled “Brief Encounters with Che Guevara,” and Ecco, a HarperCollins imprint, published it. The reviews were sensational. The Times Book Review called it “heartbreaking.” It won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award. It was named a No. 1 Book Sense Pick. It made major regional best-seller lists, was named one of the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews, and drew comparisons to Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Robert Stone, and John le Carré.
Ben Fountain’s rise sounds like a familiar story: the young man from the provinces suddenly takes the literary world by storm. But Ben Fountain’s success was far from sudden. He quit his job at Akin, Gump in 1988. For every story he published in those early years, he had at least thirty rejections. The novel that he put away in a drawer took him four years. The dark period lasted for the entire second half of the nineteen-nineties. His breakthrough with “Brief Encounters” came in 2006, eighteen years after he first sat down to write at his kitchen table. The “young” writer from the provinces took the literary world by storm at the age of forty-eight.
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enius, in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity—doing something truly creative, we’re inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth. Orson Welles made his masterpiece, “Citizen Kane,” at twenty-five. Herman Melville wrote a book a year through his late twenties, culminating, at age thirty-two, with “Moby-Dick.” Mozart wrote his breakthrough Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-Flat-Major at the age of twenty-one. In some creative forms, like lyric poetry, the importance of precocity has hardened into an iron law. How old was T. S. Eliot when he wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (“I grow old . . . I grow old”)? Twenty-three. “Poets peak young,” the creativity researcher James Kaufman maintains. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the author of “Flow,” agrees: “The most creative lyric verse is believed to be that written by the young.” According to the Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, a leading authority on creativity, “Lyric poetry is a domain where talent is discovered early, burns brightly, and then peters out at an early age.”
A few years ago, an economist at the University of Chicago named David Galenson decided to find out whether this assumption about creativity was true. He looked through forty-seven major poetry anthologies published since 1980 and counted the poems that appear most frequently. Some people, of course, would quarrel with the notion that literary merit can be quantified. But Galenson simply wanted to poll a broad cross-section of literary scholars about which poems they felt were the most important in the American canon. The top eleven are, in order, T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour,” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” William Carlos Williams’s “Red Wheelbarrow,” Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish,” Ezra Pound’s “The River Merchant’s Wife,” Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro,” Frost’s “Mending Wall,” Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man,” and Williams’s “The Dance.” Those eleven were composed at the ages of twenty-three, forty-one, forty-eight, forty, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty, twenty-eight, thirty-eight, forty-two, and fifty-nine, respectively. There is no evidence, Galenson concluded, for the notion that lyric poetry is a young person’s game. Some poets do their best work at the beginning of their careers. Others do their best work decades later. Forty-two per cent of Frost’s anthologized poems were written after the age of fifty. For Williams, it’s forty-four per cent. For Stevens, it’s forty-nine per cent.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
PTS Millennia Sdn Bhd Mencari Penulis Berbakat Bagi Novel Islami
PTS Millennia Sdn Bhd Mencari Penulis Berbakat Bagi Novel Islami
Posted on 09. May, 2007 by Fauzul Na'im Ishak in Coretan
Pihak PTS Millennia Sdn Bhd melancarkan produk baru berbentuk fiksyen. Ia berkonsepkan novel yang berunsurkan Islam. Antara ciri-ciri novel ini adalah :
Isu semasa Islam, Cinta Anta Anti, Perjuangan berfikrah, Perbandingan Agama dan apa saja cadangan yang wajar dengan konsep ini
Kupasan setiap isu diberikan penelitian daripada sudut pandangan Islam
Gaya persembahan moden & Islami
Gaya novel popular
Pihak PTS Millennia dalam proses mencari penulis berbakat bagi menyumbangkan karya untuk penerbitan novel ini. Spesifikasi penghantaran manuskrip adalah seperti berikut :
Saiz : A4
Font 12 :
Bilangan Halaman : 200 Halaman
Selang Baris : Satu Baris (Single Spacing)
Tarikh Penghantaran Manuskrip : Setiap bulan, bila-bila masa
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9-1 & 11-1 Jalan Wangsa Setia 3
Wangsa Melawati
53300 Kuala Lumpur
No. Telefon Pejabat : 03-4142 7413/16
ataupun berhubung terus dengan editor perolehan kami, Cik Nurul Hafizah Mokhtar di talian 0192488900 ataupun email terus kepada nurulhafizah@ptsmillennia.com atau nurulhafizah@pts.com.my
Kami menunggu karya kreatif daripada anda.
Hasil tulisan :
Fauzul Na'im Ishak
Pemilik Blog
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Posted on 09. May, 2007 by Fauzul Na'im Ishak in Coretan
Pihak PTS Millennia Sdn Bhd melancarkan produk baru berbentuk fiksyen. Ia berkonsepkan novel yang berunsurkan Islam. Antara ciri-ciri novel ini adalah :
Isu semasa Islam, Cinta Anta Anti, Perjuangan berfikrah, Perbandingan Agama dan apa saja cadangan yang wajar dengan konsep ini
Kupasan setiap isu diberikan penelitian daripada sudut pandangan Islam
Gaya persembahan moden & Islami
Gaya novel popular
Pihak PTS Millennia dalam proses mencari penulis berbakat bagi menyumbangkan karya untuk penerbitan novel ini. Spesifikasi penghantaran manuskrip adalah seperti berikut :
Saiz : A4
Font 12 :
Bilangan Halaman : 200 Halaman
Selang Baris : Satu Baris (Single Spacing)
Tarikh Penghantaran Manuskrip : Setiap bulan, bila-bila masa
Kepada sesiapa yang berminat bagi berkarya dengan PTS Millennia Sdn Bhd ataupun ingin membuat pertanyaan. Emailkan maklum balas anda kepada :
PTS Millennia Sdn Bhd
9-1 & 11-1 Jalan Wangsa Setia 3
Wangsa Melawati
53300 Kuala Lumpur
No. Telefon Pejabat : 03-4142 7413/16
ataupun berhubung terus dengan editor perolehan kami, Cik Nurul Hafizah Mokhtar di talian 0192488900 ataupun email terus kepada nurulhafizah@ptsmillennia.com atau nurulhafizah@pts.com.my
Kami menunggu karya kreatif daripada anda.
Hasil tulisan :
Fauzul Na'im Ishak
Pemilik Blog
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Malcolm Gladwell on "Outliers"
What is Outliers about?
1. What is an outlier?
"Outlier" is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience. In the summer, in Paris, we expect most days to be somewhere between warm and very hot. But imagine if you had a day in the middle of August where the temperature fell below freezing. That day would be outlier. And while we have a very good understanding of why summer days in Paris are warm or hot, we know a good deal less about why a summer day in Paris might be freezing cold. In this book I'm interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.
2. Why did you write Outliers?
I write books when I find myself returning again and again, in my mind, to the same themes. I wrote Tipping Point because I was fascinated by the sudden drop in crime in New York City—and that fascination grew to an interest in the whole idea of epidemics and epidemic processes. I wrote Blink because I began to get obsessed, in the same way, with the way that all of us seem to make up our minds about other people in an instant—without really doing any real thinking. In the case of Outliers, the book grew out a frustration I found myself having with the way we explain the careers of really successful people. You know how you hear someone say of Bill Gates or some rock star or some other outlier—"they're really smart," or "they're really ambitious?' Well, I know lots of people who are really smart and really ambitious, and they aren't worth 60 billion dollars. It struck me that our understanding of success was really crude—and there was an opportunity to dig down and come up with a better set of explanations.
3. In what way are our explanations of success "crude?"
That's a bit of a puzzle because we certainly don't lack for interest in the subject. If you go to the bookstore, you can find a hundred success manuals, or biographies of famous people, or self-help books that promise to outline the six keys to great achievement. (Or is it seven?) So we should be pretty sophisticated on the topic. What I came to realize in writing Outliers, though, is that we've been far too focused on the individual—on describing the characteristics and habits and personality traits of those who get furthest ahead in the world. And that's the problem, because in order to understand the outlier I think you have to look around them—at their culture and community and family and generation. We've been looking at tall trees, and I think we should have been looking at the forest.
4. Can you give some examples?
Sure. For example, one of the chapters looks at the fact that a surprising number of the most powerful and successful corporate lawyers in New York City have almost the exact same biography: they are Jewish men, born in the Bronx or Brooklyn in the mid-1930's to immigrant parents who worked in the garment industry. Now, you can call that a coincidence. Or you can ask—as I do—what is about being Jewish and being part of the generation born in the Depression and having parents who worked in the garment business that might have something to do with turning someone into a really, really successful lawyer? And the answer is that you can learn a huge amount about why someone reaches the top of that profession by asking those questions.
5. Doesn't that make it sound like success is something outside of an individual's control?
I don't mean to go that far. But I do think that we vastly underestimate the extent to which success happens because of things the individual has nothing to do with. Outliers opens, for example, by examining why a hugely disproportionate number of professional hockey and soccer players are born in January, February and March. I'm not going to spoil things for you by giving you the answer. But the point is that very best hockey players are people who are talented and work hard but who also benefit from the weird and largely unexamined and peculiar ways in which their world is organized. I actually have a lot of fun with birthdates in Outliers. Did you know that there's a magic year to be born if you want to be a software entrepreneur? And another magic year to be born if you want to be really rich? In fact, one nine year stretch turns out to have produced more Outliers than any other period in history. It's remarkable how many patterns you can find in the lives of successful people, when you look closely.
6. What's the most surprising pattern you uncovered in the book?
It's probably the chapter nearly the end of Outliers where I talk about plane crashes. How good a pilot is, it turns out, has a lot to do with where that pilot is from—that is, the culture he or she was raised in. I was actually stunned by how strong the connection is between culture and crashes, and it's something that I would never have dreamed was true, in a million years.
7. Wait. Does this mean that there are some airlines that I should avoid?
Yes. Although, as I point out in Outliers, by acknowledging the role that culture plays in piloting, some of the most unsafe airlines have actually begun to clean up their act.
8. In Tipping Point, you had an entire chapter on suicide. In Blink, you ended the book with a long chapter on the Diallo shooting—and now plane crashes. Do you have a macabre side?
Yes! I'm a frustrated thriller writer! But seriously, there's a good reason for that. I think that we learn more from extreme circumstances than anything else; disasters tell us something about the way we think and behave that we can't learn from ordinary life. That's the premise of Outliers. It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.
9. How does this book compare to Blink and The Tipping Point?
It's different, in the sense that it's much more focused on people and their stories. The subtitle—"The Story of Success"—is supposed to signal that. A lot of the book is an attempt to describe the lives of successful people, but to tell their stories in a different way than we're used to. I have a chapter that deals, in part, with explaining the extraordinary success of Bill Gates. But I'm not interested in anything that happened to him past the age of about 17. Or I have a chapter explaining why Asian schoolchildren are so good at math. But it's focused almost entirely on what the grandparents and great-grandparents and great-great grandparents of those schoolchildren did for a living. You'll meet more people in Outliers than in my previous two books.
10. What was your most memorable experience in researching Outliers?
There were so many! I'll never forget the time I spent with Chris Langan, who might be the smartest man in the world. I've never been able to feel someone's intellect before, the way I could with him. It was an intimidating experience, but also profoundly heartbreaking—as I hope becomes apparent in "The Trouble with Geniuses" chapter. I also went to south China and hung out in rice paddies, and went to this weird little town in eastern Pennsylvania where no one ever has a heart attack, and deciphered aircraft "black box" recorders with crash investigators. I should warn all potential readers that once you get interested in the world of plane crashes, it becomes very hard to tear yourself away. I'm still obsessed.
11. What do you want people to take away from Outliers?
I think this is the way in which Outliers is a lot like Blink and Tipping Point. They are all attempts to make us think about the world a little differently. The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances— and that means that we, as a society, have more control about who succeeds—and how many of us succeed—than we think. That's an amazingly hopeful and uplifting idea.
12. I noticed that the book is dedicated to "Daisy." Who is she?
Daisy is my grandmother. She was a remarkable woman, who was responsible for my mother's success—for the fact that my mother was able to get out of the little rural village in Jamaica where she grew up, get a University education in England and ultimately meet and marry my father. The last chapter of Outliers is an attempt to understand how Daisy was able to make that happen—using all the lessons learned over the course of the book. I've never written something quite this personal before. I hope readers find her story as moving as I did.
1. What is an outlier?
"Outlier" is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience. In the summer, in Paris, we expect most days to be somewhere between warm and very hot. But imagine if you had a day in the middle of August where the temperature fell below freezing. That day would be outlier. And while we have a very good understanding of why summer days in Paris are warm or hot, we know a good deal less about why a summer day in Paris might be freezing cold. In this book I'm interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.
2. Why did you write Outliers?
I write books when I find myself returning again and again, in my mind, to the same themes. I wrote Tipping Point because I was fascinated by the sudden drop in crime in New York City—and that fascination grew to an interest in the whole idea of epidemics and epidemic processes. I wrote Blink because I began to get obsessed, in the same way, with the way that all of us seem to make up our minds about other people in an instant—without really doing any real thinking. In the case of Outliers, the book grew out a frustration I found myself having with the way we explain the careers of really successful people. You know how you hear someone say of Bill Gates or some rock star or some other outlier—"they're really smart," or "they're really ambitious?' Well, I know lots of people who are really smart and really ambitious, and they aren't worth 60 billion dollars. It struck me that our understanding of success was really crude—and there was an opportunity to dig down and come up with a better set of explanations.
3. In what way are our explanations of success "crude?"
That's a bit of a puzzle because we certainly don't lack for interest in the subject. If you go to the bookstore, you can find a hundred success manuals, or biographies of famous people, or self-help books that promise to outline the six keys to great achievement. (Or is it seven?) So we should be pretty sophisticated on the topic. What I came to realize in writing Outliers, though, is that we've been far too focused on the individual—on describing the characteristics and habits and personality traits of those who get furthest ahead in the world. And that's the problem, because in order to understand the outlier I think you have to look around them—at their culture and community and family and generation. We've been looking at tall trees, and I think we should have been looking at the forest.
4. Can you give some examples?
Sure. For example, one of the chapters looks at the fact that a surprising number of the most powerful and successful corporate lawyers in New York City have almost the exact same biography: they are Jewish men, born in the Bronx or Brooklyn in the mid-1930's to immigrant parents who worked in the garment industry. Now, you can call that a coincidence. Or you can ask—as I do—what is about being Jewish and being part of the generation born in the Depression and having parents who worked in the garment business that might have something to do with turning someone into a really, really successful lawyer? And the answer is that you can learn a huge amount about why someone reaches the top of that profession by asking those questions.
5. Doesn't that make it sound like success is something outside of an individual's control?
I don't mean to go that far. But I do think that we vastly underestimate the extent to which success happens because of things the individual has nothing to do with. Outliers opens, for example, by examining why a hugely disproportionate number of professional hockey and soccer players are born in January, February and March. I'm not going to spoil things for you by giving you the answer. But the point is that very best hockey players are people who are talented and work hard but who also benefit from the weird and largely unexamined and peculiar ways in which their world is organized. I actually have a lot of fun with birthdates in Outliers. Did you know that there's a magic year to be born if you want to be a software entrepreneur? And another magic year to be born if you want to be really rich? In fact, one nine year stretch turns out to have produced more Outliers than any other period in history. It's remarkable how many patterns you can find in the lives of successful people, when you look closely.
6. What's the most surprising pattern you uncovered in the book?
It's probably the chapter nearly the end of Outliers where I talk about plane crashes. How good a pilot is, it turns out, has a lot to do with where that pilot is from—that is, the culture he or she was raised in. I was actually stunned by how strong the connection is between culture and crashes, and it's something that I would never have dreamed was true, in a million years.
7. Wait. Does this mean that there are some airlines that I should avoid?
Yes. Although, as I point out in Outliers, by acknowledging the role that culture plays in piloting, some of the most unsafe airlines have actually begun to clean up their act.
8. In Tipping Point, you had an entire chapter on suicide. In Blink, you ended the book with a long chapter on the Diallo shooting—and now plane crashes. Do you have a macabre side?
Yes! I'm a frustrated thriller writer! But seriously, there's a good reason for that. I think that we learn more from extreme circumstances than anything else; disasters tell us something about the way we think and behave that we can't learn from ordinary life. That's the premise of Outliers. It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.
9. How does this book compare to Blink and The Tipping Point?
It's different, in the sense that it's much more focused on people and their stories. The subtitle—"The Story of Success"—is supposed to signal that. A lot of the book is an attempt to describe the lives of successful people, but to tell their stories in a different way than we're used to. I have a chapter that deals, in part, with explaining the extraordinary success of Bill Gates. But I'm not interested in anything that happened to him past the age of about 17. Or I have a chapter explaining why Asian schoolchildren are so good at math. But it's focused almost entirely on what the grandparents and great-grandparents and great-great grandparents of those schoolchildren did for a living. You'll meet more people in Outliers than in my previous two books.
10. What was your most memorable experience in researching Outliers?
There were so many! I'll never forget the time I spent with Chris Langan, who might be the smartest man in the world. I've never been able to feel someone's intellect before, the way I could with him. It was an intimidating experience, but also profoundly heartbreaking—as I hope becomes apparent in "The Trouble with Geniuses" chapter. I also went to south China and hung out in rice paddies, and went to this weird little town in eastern Pennsylvania where no one ever has a heart attack, and deciphered aircraft "black box" recorders with crash investigators. I should warn all potential readers that once you get interested in the world of plane crashes, it becomes very hard to tear yourself away. I'm still obsessed.
11. What do you want people to take away from Outliers?
I think this is the way in which Outliers is a lot like Blink and Tipping Point. They are all attempts to make us think about the world a little differently. The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances— and that means that we, as a society, have more control about who succeeds—and how many of us succeed—than we think. That's an amazingly hopeful and uplifting idea.
12. I noticed that the book is dedicated to "Daisy." Who is she?
Daisy is my grandmother. She was a remarkable woman, who was responsible for my mother's success—for the fact that my mother was able to get out of the little rural village in Jamaica where she grew up, get a University education in England and ultimately meet and marry my father. The last chapter of Outliers is an attempt to understand how Daisy was able to make that happen—using all the lessons learned over the course of the book. I've never written something quite this personal before. I hope readers find her story as moving as I did.
Buku Isteri dan Puteri Rasulullah
Dari FB Ustaz Zahazan Mohamed
Buku ini bermula dengan membawa prospektif dan senario kaum wanita sebelum Islam daripada pelbagai bangsa dan agama di dunia. Kemudian dibentangkan profil dan ciri-ciri wanita Mus limah. Seterusnya dipersembahkan riwayat hidup dan keistimewaan para isteri Rasulullah SAW serta perbandingannya dengan peranan Muslimah kontempo rari. Berikutnya digarap peranan Rasulullah sebagai suami misali yang ber tanggungjawab. Kemudian dibawakan pula biodata serta peranan yang dimainkan oleh puteri-puteri Rasulullah SAW yang menjadi figur untuk melahirkan contoh wanita pendidik dan pejuang yang menanamkan keberanian dan kejujuran kepada generasi akan datang. Buku ini disudahi dengan menyenaraikan peranan Baginda sebagai bapa dan ketua keluarga yang mampu untuk memimpin ahli keluarga serta masyarakat ke arah melahirkan generasi pelapis yang sanggup untuk memikul tugas mengembalikan agama Islam dianuti oleh pengikut-pengikut yang bertakwa supaya Islam itu sekali lagi menuju ke zaman keagungannya.
Nama Penulis: Muhammad Mahdi al-Istambuli & Musthafa Abu Nashr al-Syilby
Penerbit: Telaga Biru Sdn Bhd
Harga: Semenanjung M’sia: RM23.00 / Sabah & S’wak: RM25.00
Kod Produk: TBBK1150
ISBN: 978-967-5102-80-6
Saiz: 14 x 21 (cm)
Mukasurat: 192 msTarikh produk berada di pasaran: Mac 2010
Boleh didapati di MPH, Popular, Kedai2 buku agama dan stesen Petronas terpilih. Juga boleh didapati di kedai-kedai maya dari pengedar2 stormreaders.
Buku ini bermula dengan membawa prospektif dan senario kaum wanita sebelum Islam daripada pelbagai bangsa dan agama di dunia. Kemudian dibentangkan profil dan ciri-ciri wanita Mus limah. Seterusnya dipersembahkan riwayat hidup dan keistimewaan para isteri Rasulullah SAW serta perbandingannya dengan peranan Muslimah kontempo rari. Berikutnya digarap peranan Rasulullah sebagai suami misali yang ber tanggungjawab. Kemudian dibawakan pula biodata serta peranan yang dimainkan oleh puteri-puteri Rasulullah SAW yang menjadi figur untuk melahirkan contoh wanita pendidik dan pejuang yang menanamkan keberanian dan kejujuran kepada generasi akan datang. Buku ini disudahi dengan menyenaraikan peranan Baginda sebagai bapa dan ketua keluarga yang mampu untuk memimpin ahli keluarga serta masyarakat ke arah melahirkan generasi pelapis yang sanggup untuk memikul tugas mengembalikan agama Islam dianuti oleh pengikut-pengikut yang bertakwa supaya Islam itu sekali lagi menuju ke zaman keagungannya.
Nama Penulis: Muhammad Mahdi al-Istambuli & Musthafa Abu Nashr al-Syilby
Penerbit: Telaga Biru Sdn Bhd
Harga: Semenanjung M’sia: RM23.00 / Sabah & S’wak: RM25.00
Kod Produk: TBBK1150
ISBN: 978-967-5102-80-6
Saiz: 14 x 21 (cm)
Mukasurat: 192 msTarikh produk berada di pasaran: Mac 2010
Boleh didapati di MPH, Popular, Kedai2 buku agama dan stesen Petronas terpilih. Juga boleh didapati di kedai-kedai maya dari pengedar2 stormreaders.
Lagi Pasal Solat - Nawawi Yusof
Solat itu mencegah dari perbuatan keji dan mungkar.
Kalau kita solat tapi perangai masih tak betul i.e. tipu, curi tulang, mengata, rasuah, maka beleklah solat kita.
Mana tau ia belum sempurna.
Org yg solat sepatutnya baik dari segi akal, hati dan perbuatan.
Dlm satu surah (tak ingt surah apa), disebut pasal kisah suami isteri dan masalah rumahtangga, dan disebut pasal solat. Maksudnya org yg tak solat rumahtangga berisiko utk tak stabil.
Hmm..make me wonder kisah cerai berai artis. Bukanlah buta2 nak menilai mereka, tapi drg dari mulut wardina sendiri, agak2 kita tau cara hidup mereka.
Kalau kita solat tapi perangai masih tak betul i.e. tipu, curi tulang, mengata, rasuah, maka beleklah solat kita.
Mana tau ia belum sempurna.
Org yg solat sepatutnya baik dari segi akal, hati dan perbuatan.
Dlm satu surah (tak ingt surah apa), disebut pasal kisah suami isteri dan masalah rumahtangga, dan disebut pasal solat. Maksudnya org yg tak solat rumahtangga berisiko utk tak stabil.
Hmm..make me wonder kisah cerai berai artis. Bukanlah buta2 nak menilai mereka, tapi drg dari mulut wardina sendiri, agak2 kita tau cara hidup mereka.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Hadis Pasal Hati Berkarat
“Sesungguhnya hati manusia akan berkarat sebagaimana besi yang dikaratkan oleh air.” Bila seorang bertanya, “Apakah caranya untuk menjadikan hati-hati ini bersih kembali?” Rasulullah s.a.w. bersabda, “Selalulah ingat mati dan membaca Al Quran.”
How to Work Less & Achieve More
How to Work Less & Achieve More
http://bigpeace.wordpress.com/2006/08/06/how-to-work-less-achieve-more/
August 6, 2006 by bigpeace
by Philip Humbert
We are all “too busy!” We work hard, we have enormous “to-do” lists, and most of the time we feel at least slightly “inadequate” because at the end of the day, there is still so much more to accomplish.
We return all the calls we can, and yet there are still more messages waiting on our desks. We deal with all the email we can, and our inboxes are still full. We go to the meetings, we do the paperwork, we run the errands, and at the end of the day, we try to spend quality time with loved ones. Sometimes it just seems like TOO MUCH! (Ever been there? Done that? Of course you have!)
So, in the midst of the “have-to’s,” what happens to our “want-to’s?” We want to build our businesses. We want to exercise more, we want to take the kids to a ball game, and we want to relax! We want to make things better, buy a sailboat, take a vacation, read a book, or pursue a favorite hobby. (Does anyone else miss the “good old days” when fishing was an actual option? How about gardening or flying a kite, or taking a nap in an old-fashioned hammock?)
Now – just to rub a bit of salt in the wound – here’s the really painful part: The rich DO all the things we want to do! No one sees Donald Trump running to catch an elevator. Oprah Winfrey gets to go to the parties, has time to exercise (with her personal trainer) and vacation around the world. Bill Gates takes a vacation every 3 months! How do these super-stars do it?
The answer is super-productivity, what I call MAXIMUM RESULTS with minimum time and effort. What are the secrets? How (exactly) can we do it?
That’s our challenge, and fortunately, the answers are available. They are available to you, to me, to each of us, and we’ll learn them in this series.
Just to give you a preview, here are the six basic elements super-achievers use to achieve MAXIMUM RESULTS with minimum time and effort:
1. Clear VALUES. They know what’s important, and what is trivial. They understand that some of our “have-to’s” are simply an illusion. Some things are not as important as they seem. The key is knowing what to do and what not to do.
2. Clear PRIORITIES. In any given moment, there is only ONE thing that needs your time/attention/energy MOST. That ONE thing will bring results, that ONE thing will move you forward, and IT should be done, and everything else should be delegated or set aside.
3. Clear FOCUS. Whatever you do, do it with all your heart. Do it efficiently. Do it skillfully. Super-achievers are not confused or distracted. They do not “multi-task” because they know human beings can only FOCUS on one thing at a time. We’ll learn this!
4. Clear CHOICES. They know where their unique abilities should be applied and how to delegate everything else. They make decisions knowing they have limited time, energy and skills, and they make careful choices to get MAXIMUM RESULTS. We can, too.
5. Clear BOUNDARIES. Super-achievers are not interrupted. They do not work in chaos. They create Personal Eco-Systems? that allow them to use all their time, talents and skills to maximum advantage. We’ll learn how to do that.
6. Clear OUTCOMES. They are precise about what they want, and settle for nothing less. They know exactly which results they need to move them forward, and they keep track. As Peter Drucker said, “what gets measured, gets done!”
There is no mystery to getting more done. Each of us has the same amount of time each day. We have about the same amount of energy, but fortunately, we all have enormous potential. The difference between the super-achievers and the rest of us is a set of skills! They know how to get things done, or in my favorite phrase, they have a “recipe” for success and we can all learn to use it!
In August, we’ll learn their “recipe.” Stay tuned and if you have friends, co-workers or family members who need this information, please encourage them to subscribe! Invite them to visit my website at: http://philiphumbert.com or send an email to: Subscribe@philiphumbert.com Together, we’ll all become MAXIMUM ACHIEVERS!
http://bigpeace.wordpress.com/2006/08/06/how-to-work-less-achieve-more/
August 6, 2006 by bigpeace
by Philip Humbert
We are all “too busy!” We work hard, we have enormous “to-do” lists, and most of the time we feel at least slightly “inadequate” because at the end of the day, there is still so much more to accomplish.
We return all the calls we can, and yet there are still more messages waiting on our desks. We deal with all the email we can, and our inboxes are still full. We go to the meetings, we do the paperwork, we run the errands, and at the end of the day, we try to spend quality time with loved ones. Sometimes it just seems like TOO MUCH! (Ever been there? Done that? Of course you have!)
So, in the midst of the “have-to’s,” what happens to our “want-to’s?” We want to build our businesses. We want to exercise more, we want to take the kids to a ball game, and we want to relax! We want to make things better, buy a sailboat, take a vacation, read a book, or pursue a favorite hobby. (Does anyone else miss the “good old days” when fishing was an actual option? How about gardening or flying a kite, or taking a nap in an old-fashioned hammock?)
Now – just to rub a bit of salt in the wound – here’s the really painful part: The rich DO all the things we want to do! No one sees Donald Trump running to catch an elevator. Oprah Winfrey gets to go to the parties, has time to exercise (with her personal trainer) and vacation around the world. Bill Gates takes a vacation every 3 months! How do these super-stars do it?
The answer is super-productivity, what I call MAXIMUM RESULTS with minimum time and effort. What are the secrets? How (exactly) can we do it?
That’s our challenge, and fortunately, the answers are available. They are available to you, to me, to each of us, and we’ll learn them in this series.
Just to give you a preview, here are the six basic elements super-achievers use to achieve MAXIMUM RESULTS with minimum time and effort:
1. Clear VALUES. They know what’s important, and what is trivial. They understand that some of our “have-to’s” are simply an illusion. Some things are not as important as they seem. The key is knowing what to do and what not to do.
2. Clear PRIORITIES. In any given moment, there is only ONE thing that needs your time/attention/energy MOST. That ONE thing will bring results, that ONE thing will move you forward, and IT should be done, and everything else should be delegated or set aside.
3. Clear FOCUS. Whatever you do, do it with all your heart. Do it efficiently. Do it skillfully. Super-achievers are not confused or distracted. They do not “multi-task” because they know human beings can only FOCUS on one thing at a time. We’ll learn this!
4. Clear CHOICES. They know where their unique abilities should be applied and how to delegate everything else. They make decisions knowing they have limited time, energy and skills, and they make careful choices to get MAXIMUM RESULTS. We can, too.
5. Clear BOUNDARIES. Super-achievers are not interrupted. They do not work in chaos. They create Personal Eco-Systems? that allow them to use all their time, talents and skills to maximum advantage. We’ll learn how to do that.
6. Clear OUTCOMES. They are precise about what they want, and settle for nothing less. They know exactly which results they need to move them forward, and they keep track. As Peter Drucker said, “what gets measured, gets done!”
There is no mystery to getting more done. Each of us has the same amount of time each day. We have about the same amount of energy, but fortunately, we all have enormous potential. The difference between the super-achievers and the rest of us is a set of skills! They know how to get things done, or in my favorite phrase, they have a “recipe” for success and we can all learn to use it!
In August, we’ll learn their “recipe.” Stay tuned and if you have friends, co-workers or family members who need this information, please encourage them to subscribe! Invite them to visit my website at: http://philiphumbert.com or send an email to: Subscribe@philiphumbert.com Together, we’ll all become MAXIMUM ACHIEVERS!
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