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Modernization today allows physical and material means for competition increasingly available and affordable. It also allows mental and intellectual means for competition increasingly convenient to acquire. Degree of competency to compete has reached the stage where penalty shots measure supremacy and determine winners, or in another analogy, a stage where one must compete in the finals strip naked. Means to compete have dove deep into the emotional and spiritual dimensions, less in mental and intellectual realms, and almost none in physical and material platforms. What now? Well, this time let’s not ask World Cup fans or the twelve year old boy, but let’s ask our very own selves - digging quality answers out of mental belief and wisdom. Likely, the answer will suggest emphasis to our inner selves, our inner skills, our inner capacity and inner competency - stripped naked with no symbols for status, no uniforms, no attributes, with nothing on. Suggestions to harness competency to compete in soccer matches and win the game not through running, tackling, kicking and extending time, but through penalty shots - solely a competition between the executor and the goalkeeper. This phenomenon explains why, among others, emotional quotient and many other means of intelligence quotients that make up the overall spiritual quotient begins to take the spotlight on stage. While hard skill values fade away in more modern and developed environments? While soft skill values struggle their ways to generate meaningful and more effective results in reality, ultra soft skills, as my colleagues and I call it, begin to emerge into the scenes - empowerment and enrichment of human inner skills revolving around mental and mind (brain) as well as emotional and spiritual (heart) capacity and capabilities. I used to train martial arts in the past and I used to answer questions like this one: “Why can’t I break this cast iron when I’ve learned all the right techniques and trained the speed to do it?” I simply answered: “Your power may not be sufficient enough to generate the required thrust”. This illustrates the fact that hard skills and soft skills, even ultra soft skills must be equipped with sufficient strengths and effective thrusts to realize and actualize benefits. An analogy to this would be as if both minds and hearts also have muscles to empower. Mind associated inner skills emphasize more in extending capabilities of mental related skills and while heart associated inner skills emphasize more in expanding capacity of emotional related skills. Ultra soft skills for the minds are associated to the knowledge and ability to make access and utilize the right hemisphere of the brain and the subconscious mind where invaluable inborn treasures are in store, while all heart related skills, with no exceptions, are ultra soft categorized of inner skills. Has anyone ever asked why the utilization of brain capacity has always been at the 10% mark? One day this issue was a subject of my conversation with my twelve years old son. I asked him the question, and once again, he gave me a naïve answer: “I don’t know, go and find out!” Indeed, and once again, a valid answer. Sources also say that the utilization of brain capacity has gone beyond the 10% mark! It’s true, and inner skills have benefited the remaining 90% of the capacity with limitless wonders and amazing findings because the 90% of the capacity is generated in the right hemisphere of the brain. Has anyone known anybody who is intelligent and skillful but nothing ever gets completed or ever gets done do to lack of will power, lack of confidence - let alone lack of self confidence, or lack of sustaining spirit? I do. Quoting Charles Darwin: “It is not the strongest who will survive, but the quickest to adapt”. This may be a reminder to include and increase more practice on penalty shoots in soccer. Like the global climate change - the phenomena will not adapt to our liking, we are the ones to adapt. Quoting Leon Danu: “You cannot buy nature, you can only learn to blend and to prosper together with nature, and that nature is you”. This reminds me that inner skills can’t simply be ordered by phone nor delegated, and can’t be acquired just by listening and observing. Where help manifests only from within - it’s about sincere practical training and exercise. FIFA World Cup as it evolves through decades, whenever near final, it’s all about inner competency. Best of luck to all as we are about to embrace the new decade in less than six months.
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