Cartoons for human development 40 reflection topics
Dr. Moshood Olawale Fadeyi
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my wife and children.
Š Moshood Olawale Fadeyi 2019
Wise and intelligent decision
Reflection questions • How can a fearful environment or situation cause an individual or group of people to make an unwise and unintelligent decision? • How can a learning or ignorance mindset affect the ability to make a wise and intelligent decision? • How can arrogant behaviour or mindset cause an individual or group of people to make an unwise and unintelligent decision?
Timing
Reflection questions • How can patience help to set the right timing for an idea to materialize or flourish? • How to spot the right timing for an idea to materialise or flourish? • Can the ability to detect the right timing be trained? Yes or No. If yes, how?
Law of interaction
Reflection questions • Why are consciousness and the control of “Perception Interpretation” so important for the good of “Reaction to Interpretation”? • How to control “Perception Interpretation” effectively? • Can the ability to control “Perception Interpretation” be trained? If yes, how?
Valuable Talent
Reflection questions • Why is it essential for an individual to use his/her talent to add value to people’s lives more often? • Why is talent only as valuable as the value it adds to people’s lives? • What could hinder one from using his/her talent to add value to people’s lives?
Power of motivation
Reflection questions • How important is for leaders to have a high motivational skill? Why is it that important? • How important is for educators to have a high motivational skill? Why is it that important?
Commitment
Reflection questions • Why is a clear sense of purpose important to sustained commitment? • Is it necessary to manage choices to manage the commitment level? Yes or No, if Yes, why? • What are you committed to in your personal life and professional life? Why are you committed?
Unbearable pressure
Reflection questions • What makes people get trapped under unbearable pressure? • Why is it important to avoid being trapped under unbearable pressure? • How to avoid being trapped under unbearable pressure?
Value versus Waste
Reflection questions • How can value be increased? • How can waste be defined and eliminated as much as possible? • How can the understanding of the concept of value and waste be used to improve your personal life and professional life? • Who and what determines usefulness and uselessness?
The three wise men
Reflection questions • How could the omission of one of the “3 Wise Men” compromise success attainment? • Why is it advisable for an individual to have the “3 Wise Men” in his or her life? • Think of any aspect of your personal or professional life, what could make you lose or not have the “3 Wise Men”? How to prevent such a situation?
Keep it simple
Reflection questions • Why do people consciously or unconsciously make a solution or process complex? • How to train people to develop skills needed to provide a simple solution or make process simple?
Healthy mind, healthy emotion
Reflection questions • How can a healthy mind enhance emotional intelligence? • Why is it essential to be emotionally intelligent? • Why do people find it difficult to provide healthy “nutrients” to their mind? • What are you doing to keep your mind and emotion healthy?
Nosy
Reflection questions • Why is it essential not to speculate, fabricate lies, or hate? • Why do people engage in a negative behaviour? • How can a negative behaviour be prevented if it is possible to do so?
Transforming industry practice
Reflection questions • How can the assumption driving industry practices be understood and improved? • Do you agree that academic research facts alone cannot transform industry practices? If yes or no, why?
Safety first
Reflection questions • Why are excellent quality and cost and time savings meaningless when safety is compromised? • How can caution be used to reinforce workplace safety? • Why is it essential to strengthen workplace safety with caution and not paranoia?
Backstabbing
Reflection questions • Why do people backstab? • How do backstabbing acts compromise trust and organisational culture? • How to stop backstabbing individuals from compromising trust and organisational culture?
All we need is love
Reflection questions • What makes it difficult for people to share a love with people they have differences with? • How can love be natured and sustained? • How can the love determinants liberate us, human, from our world full of darkness?
Do not act on ignorance
Reflection questions • In your personal experience, why is it essential not to act on ignorance? • What makes people act on ignorance even if they know the risk/danger involved? • How to eliminate the temptation of acting on ignorance?
Value oriented curiosity
Reflection questions • Why is it essential to develop value-oriented curiosity? • What are the consequences of not having, developing, or allowing value-oriented curiosity to flourish?
Do not act on ignorance
Reflection questions • Why is the chemistry that led to Product A, B, or C dangerous to quality growth? • Why is the chemistry that led to Product A good for quality growth? How to achieve it?
Definition of quality growth
Reflection questions • How can quality growth be maintained to sustain the function and the value it gives? • Why is value critical to quality growth, especially in this age where the focus is usually on counting numbers instead of focusing on value delivery?
Building capability
Reflection questions • What does capability building mean, and why is it essential to an individual or organisation? • Why is ego an obstacle to building capability?
Goal driven innovation
Reflection questions • Why is it easier to appreciate, develop, accept, or adopt a value-oriented innovation if there are clarity and understanding of what the goal means? • How can a goal-driven innovation approach be nurtured in individuals and organisations? • Why is it advisable to use a goal to judge the effectiveness of a new approach instead of using an established approach?
Problem with solving a problem
Reflection questions • Why is it essential to provide a solution to the cause of a problem and not the problem? • What makes most people provide a solution to a problem and not the cause of the problem?
Path to be an expert
Reflection questions • Do you agree that it is impossible to teach someone to be an expert? If yes or no, why? • What are the challenges to being an expert nowadays? How to overcome the challenges?
Distraction
Reflection questions • How does distraction affect people’s reality? • What defines distraction? How to identify it and free ourselves from its impact on drifting us from our goal?
Execution of reality
Reflection questions • Why would memory and expectation make the right execution of reality challenging at the point of execution? • What can be done to achieve liberation from memory and expectation at the point of reality execution?
Graceful in failure
Reflection questions • Why is it essential to be graceful in failure? • Why is it dangerous to let success get to one’s head or failure get to one’s heart?
Conscience
Reflection questions • Why do people refuse to heed to the good advice from their conscience? • What are the consequences of not heeding to the good advice from one's conscience?
Courage needs hope and motivation
Reflection questions • Why does courage need hope and motivation when in pursuit of success? • How can courage, hope, and motivation be natured and sustained?
Blessing in disguise
Reflection questions • Why is wisdom essential in recognising the blessing in disguise? • Why is it essential to embrace blessing in disguise?
Negative energy in you
Reflection questions • Why is it essential to be conscious of inner negative energy and its root-cause? • How does a mind free of negative energy make an individual be a better and kind person?
Reflection skills
Reflection questions • How relevant are reflection skills to the quality of human life? • How to sharpen reflection skills?
Candle flame
Reflection questions • What kind of assumptions drives the behaviour of blowing out another person’s "candle flame"? Why? • Why is it important to have an organisational culture that does not allow blowing out another person’s "candle flame"?
Procrastination
Reflection questions • How to prevent procrastination? • What are the implications of procrastination?
Minimise deficit
Reflection questions • Why is it essential to learn from the experience of those who have gone before you to minimise deficit? • What are the implications of not being able to minimize deficit? Answer this question in a particular context of interest to you.
Contradiction
Reflection questions • What causes a contradiction? How to avoid or eliminate the causes? • How does contradiction compromise trust? • What are the implications of contradiction?
Philosophy of fear
Reflection questions • How can fear be dangerous and helpful? • How to make the best use of fear?
Understanding and judgemental attitude
Reflection questions • Why is it essential to treat people with understanding and not judgemental attitude? • What causes understanding or judgemental attitude in people?
Priority drives sacrifice
Reflection questions • What determines people’s priority? • What determines the level of sacrifice a person can endure for his /her priority? • What determines the limit of sacrifice, if any, a person can make for his/her priority?
Focus on the positive
Reflection questions • What would make it difficult to take positives out of negatives? Why? • Why is the ability to take positives out of negatives essential for success attainment?
About the author Dr. Moshood Olawale Fadeyi is a building services professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology. Dr. Fadeyi holds four university degrees, including a Ph.D. in Indoor Environment and Energy from the National University of Singapore and Technical University of Denmark. He is an architect, indoor air quality expert, cartoonist, chartered engineer, chartered construction manager, and a former national taekwondo champion in Singapore. Dr. Fadeyi is the founder of Cartoons for Human Development.