A Question in Mind: Threshold Question

"What are some ways information technology can help ... to achieve ... ? " This was the typical question that appeared several times in my exam this morning. This question is my today inspiration because I hardly answered it, haha, kidding, (honestly, 50% kidding). I found that this question was the question which should be kept in my mind. This simple question leads me to think about the technology side of anything. As I want to have a career in business technology field, it helps me a lot to develop critical thinking about issues in my field. If one is able to develop critical thinking, the ideas and solutions will be like water flowing from the mountain spring. Just call this question as my field's threshold question.

I call it threshold question because it opens a kind of portal that leads into new or previously accessible way of thinking. This meaning seems similar to threshold concepts because both of them have an almost similar usefulness. The threshold concepts are used to understand a field of study comprehensively. Once you understand the threshold concepts in a particular field of study, we can easily understand the other concepts in that field. For example, my SAP lecturer said that the threshold concepts of SAP is the modular concept. Hence, you can easily understand all the things about SAP if you understand about modular concept.

Back to threshold question, do other fields have threshold question? I think the others can have their own threshold question just like threshold concepts. Hmm, I tried to look for an example for the other fields but I couldn't find it, haha. The most important thing is the question should lead us to develop critical thinking and then we can fully understand our field of study or even develop new idea. So, what about yours? Good luck for finding your threshold question!

Perfectionism

Perfectionism. That is one reason that explains why I took a lot of time for designing my blog layout. Damn, I spent almost 2 days to do the design part such as header design, color composition, and widget code editing. At the same time, I'll have 2 exams on next Monday and Wednesday T.T Why did I do this? Haha, but don't worry, while I was editing widget code I learned some javascript logics. So it's quite helpful for my programming exam, isn't it??

Yea, my perfectionism always makes me want to give the best for what I'm doing. According to Mr.Wiki perfectionism has negative and positive aspects. Its negative aspect has two forms that are procrastination and self-depreciation. Procrastination happens when perfectionism is used to postpone task  ("I can't start my project until I know the 'right' way to do it."). I think I suffered this a lot, hahaha. Meanwhile, self-depreciation happens when perfectionism is used to excuse poor performance or to seek sympathy and affirmation from other people ("I can't believe I don't know how to reach my own goals. I must be stupid"). It seems this problem doesn't happen to me because I often self appreciate my self lol.

Don't forget the positive aspect of perfectionism! Perfectionism can drive people to accomplishments and provide the motivation to persevere in the face of discouragement and obstacles (Roedell, 1984).  For example, Michelangelo's perfectionism may have spurred him to create masterpieces such as the statue David and the Sistine Chapel. The other example is my blog design, haha. This is the product of my perfectionism. 

Although I only ended up with black and white color composition, I think it is enough for newbie, haha. For the header image, I made it in photoshop. I was thinking about what is the best logo for my blog. Then, the best idea that I could found was that empty-sliced-head with silly face, haha. For the next layout, I would like to improve my logo using illustrator and human sketch! emmm, maybe 3d max for the next next neexxxt version.