Why we, Indonesian, have limited expert.. (personal review)

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Why we, Indonesian, have limited expert.. (personal review)

A book that my husband read says that in order for a person to become an expert they must invest and dedicate more than 50,000 hours to that specific competency or skill they wannabe an expert of.

Once I read somewhere in the net that Michael Sumacher (sorry if the name spelling is wrong) the legendary F1 racer has already dedicating his live since such young age, around 5 years old (again sorry if not accurate) using only a wooden car.

Or if we read biography of a researcher, a scientist, a writer, etc.. they start their experties training ever since they are in kindergarten or primary school.

Now why my topic for today is "Why we, Indonesian, has limited expert..?" aside from fact that indeed our dear country has limited experts, those experts are not covering every single experties exist or require by the our life.

We do has nuclear expert although most of them not working in Indonesia, we have many reasercher and yes most of them again working under International agencies.. and the one experties that we do have an expert are in art, music, culture, or writing..

Or even if we do have the regeneration is not happening and we end up with a crisis, such as what the radio broadcast last night reported that we will soon face the condition of lacking a helycoper pilot..about 50-70 pilot, due to scheduled retirement plan of senior pilot.

If we taking a deep analysis and learn from other country such as Europe or US, we then realize there are a different basic approach or parenting that we do in terms of introducing our children, our future generation, into variaty of profession, of experties..of jobs..

In US if we see in most family movie, they show that school will invite parents or famous person with unique job to tell a story in class of 1st grade or second grade or toddler at kindergarten.. a story of what is the scope of work of one profession, what is their doing in simple words, why they are doing, and how they could become like that..

They show a role model, a "teladan" in Indonesian term, that could inspire a child to put their dreams as high as a star..and that it is possible to achieve if they committed to their dreams..through education and skill practices..

Last night I watch, Junior Masterchef Australia, season finale, and what interest me is one of the contestant, Siena a nine years old girl, said after he failed to pass the grand finale test was "I am winner already", "I'm very proud of myself right now" she so happy she made it that far and she has a new wishlist.."In ten years time, I want to open my own desert store" since she is known as the best desert junior chef contestant..

Gosh.. a 9 years old could project her life in ten years with specific time target, specific achievement and show determination to achieve it..

thumbs up Siena..

And if we look back to our dear future generation in our dear country, Indonesia, how many that you think have that specific dream projection in their life? I even not sure if I ask this to a senior high student, a good and measurable answer could be received.

Why.. easy, we are not use to think like that, to prepare our life like that..

During our childhood, we play around, and unsure with what we wanna be, that is fine we are children.. but if we were not introduce with different kind of experties, different kind of hobies, different kind of profession..then for sure we had already limit our selves with a few profession or experties we know..by our daily live..and usually those are; a teacher, a doctor, working in office (not sure what position), working in bank like teller, a driver, a police, or government official (again not sure what post, what institution)

And we end up with wrong major during Senior high, University, etc..

by the time we realize what we want for our job, our dream job, we already like above 20 years old, or worst above 30 or 40 years old,..and we end up with catching up our lost time of educating our selves for that dream job in the stage of not young again, with low health condition, and many dependants..

Most of my friends working as recruitment complaint how difficult it is to find a good and potential candidate for the vacant post..while the reality shows millions of people looking for job.. this not-match experties happend because we let it..

If we want to end it, then we need to change how we educate our children, start with our own.. my son said "Mommy I want to be a racer, a hot wheel racer..." it means we don't have to be a singer to introduce our child with singing, we don't have to be a racer to introduce what is a racer, what do the doctor do, what is a consultant do, what is a project manager do..etc..

Introduce your children with activities in daily life, always answer their curios question of someone working on something, explain what you know in a simple way.. then you will amaze with what your children could inteprete.. They are the owner of future world, the world that we could not imagine..the world with new possibility and only by supporting them with chance to learn all possibility..and potential, they will then understand and show us what is their true potential..

And if that comes out, our job is to assist them to be the best that they could be..

for my son Abimanyu and daughter Zara..Mommy love you..thank you for asking many questions..and always joyfull to learn new things..