Does creativity helps learning?

 “Everybody has an interest in education. All kids have tremendous talents but we sounder them”-Ken Robinson

Every single person is born with a creative mind, strength, interest, and talent that you can find and you can build a life on. But individuals are thrown into an inadequate educational system and are expected to adopt one of the trending careers law, medical, engineering or IT by their parents. They are compelled to grow in such an inadequate educational system to comply with the trending career requirements, ruining their own differential creativity and strengths.

“We do not grow into creativity. We grow out of it, or rather we get educated out of it”- Ken Robinson

Our educational system is predicated on the idea of academic ability, the reason is there was no system of public education before the 19th century and it all was to comply with the need of industrialism, so the hierarchy of educational content was designed with the subjects of need on top and kids remained benignly away from the subjects they liked. On the ground reality, it was thought you will not get the job by doing what you like, don't do music you are not going to be a musician, don’t do arts you are not going be an artist. But now profoundly mistaken, the whole world is engulfed in revolution.

Secondly, academic ability is dominated on our intelligence because the universities have designed the system of the entrance. All over the world, the system of public education is a protracted process of university entrance with a consequence that highly talented, capable and creative students think that as they were not good at school, wouldn't be valued or actually stigmatized. It is now crucial to rethink about our intelligence, we know 3 things about intelligence one it's diverse, we think about the world in all ways we experience things: visually, kinesthetically, by sounds and in abstract terms. Second, intelligence is dynamic. It’s highly interactive and third, intelligence is distinct. All this collectively gives rise to creativity and multitasking ability

Creativity is the process of having original ideas having values that come about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of same things. All kids are not the same and their performance in school doesn’t define their caliber. Many successful scientists, philosophers, and businessmen like Einstien, Thomas Edison and Bill gates etc. were high school dropouts.

“Creativity is contagious, pass it on” – Albert Einstein

Qasim Ali Shah from his start of teaching promotes and sticks to a fact that without creativity we can’t enhance the performance and learning ability of a student. He himself felt throughout his life that it was his teacher’s creative approach that led him for his self-discovery. He always tried to enhance and pull out the creativity from his students and guides them to exceed according to their passion. According to Qasim Ali Shah our only hope for future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology which must acknowledge the richness of human capacity. We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we are educating our children.  

There are multiple examples of top profile persons who are on top just because of their creative approach. A kid who struggled in middle school, in high school he spent most of the time hiding himself in a bathroom escaping from reading aloud in the classroom. He was diagnosed with dyslexia, or a language-based learning disability in 4th grade and ADD- attention defecate hyperactivity disorder in 5th grade and was dropped out of school but he believed that he was different from others. He re-enrolled himself in high school and his relatives said: “he will be a high school dropout or will end up as a loser”. But he beat those odds and transcended those low expectations. He entered the university, got a supporting teacher and was interested to keep English subject as his major. He walked into academic enrollment office and said “ I want to study some English literature here”, the officer opened his IEP- individualize educational plan and laughed saying that he will not approve that as major, you should consider something less intellectual. He was deflated like a balloon and went back to his teacher and told him that they are not going to approve English literature as major due to my poor school results. His teacher said “Your old school judgment can never define your future. Go back and prove that bastard wrong” and next day he enrolled himself in 4 literature classes. This kid was “Jonathan Mooney”: a dyslexia writer, entrepreneur, activist, and public speaker.

“Marks are important for exams, education is important for life”

Similarly, Jenilyn a hopeless school girl. Teachers told her parents she is sick having a learning disorder and she can’t concentrate. Her mother took her to a specialist doctor. Jenilyn was asked to sit on a chair alone in a room until doctor discusses all her problem with her mother privately. Going out of the room doctor turned on the radio and asked her mother to watch her from the window. The minute they left the room she was on her feet moving with the music. After watching a few minutes Doctor said her mother “She is not sick, she is a dancer. Take her to a dance school”. Today Jenilyn is a famous multi-millionaire choreographer and dancer having her own dance academy.

These kids believed that if they were deficient they were different. Yes, they are different in the truest sense of the word but the things that really disable individuals are the ways in which those differences are treated by others. Qasim Ali shah himself is trying to bring some reforms in educational systems because he believes that yes, creativity helps learning.

“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status”- Ken Robinson

I think we can’t afford this. In the next 30 years, more people will be graduated from education than the beginning of history, with a combined knowledge of technology and transformation efficiency of it on work. Secondly, degrees are of no worth anything. A few decades back if you have a degree you have a job and if you didn’t have a job you didn’t want one. Now people with degrees are ahead to homes playing video games because now you need a Master’s degree for the job previously demanding Bachelor’s degree and similarly now a Ph.D. for another one. It is all the process of academic inflation, it all indicates that the whole educational structure is shifting beneath our feet. It is important to develop freedom of expression, emotional development, thinking capability, problem-solving skills, passion, better interactive communication and future opportunities in children to celebrate the gift of human imagination. Using it wisely and the only way we can do it is by seeking our creative capacities for the richness they are, and our children for the hope they are, by educating them so that they can face the future and make something out 

Qasim Ali Shah - A Multiplier

"If your action inspires others to dream more, to learn more and become more; you are a multiplier”

Yousaf Chughtai ; Qasim Ali Shah - A Multiplier

In this advanced faster world of competition, business cycles, and pressure on innovation with limited resource utilization, it is important for a person in leading role to multiply the qualitative aspects of their employees in an effective way. Now it is not enough to be a genius. It is all about how you make everyone smarter in your surrounding- it’s time to be a genius maker.

On December 25, 1980, out of a town of District Gujrat, Punjab, a person took birth. His family moved to Lahore. Since his teenage life, the books were an attraction for him. He took part in a talk about rivalries in his school life. He began his career mission as an officer in Pakistan’s considerate administrations. Later on, he started his academy in Gulshan e Ravi, Lahore. However with time he started teaching and step by step advanced into turning into an expert coach, open speaker, essayist, and columnist, written a couple of books and also has facilitated his own projects on Television, Radio and social rostrums like facebook and youtube along with his own channel under Ultimately established his own particular institute in Lahore. This astonishing remarkable person was “Qasim Ali Shah”

Now if we get deep in to life of this marvelous personality "Qasim Ali Shah” we will find him full of multiple valuable qualities like honesty, integrity, focusing, decision making, good communication, commitment, creativity and leadership, But if we look around we find much with similar values but not having such peak of sustained success in a short interval, So what is the reason behind?  The answer lies in a single word “Multiplier”.

A Multiplier is someone who uses their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. Multipliers liberate people to think, to speak, and to act with reason. They create an environment where the best ideas surface and where people do their best work. The question “why” is at the core of their thinking. They ponder possibilities. They want to learn from people around them. They are a Talent Magnets, the multiplier can identify someone’s genius! They can get more from them! They are liberators and challengers! They think People get smarter by being challenged! They are decision makers!

“Whenever you apply positional leadership model, your team becomes hypocrite" Qasim Ali Shah

Qasim Ali Shah explains the lead with two models first one positional leadership and second is inspirational leadership. The first model is a reflection of diminishers and the second one is a beautiful reflection of multipliers. He identifies that hypocrite, hate, blame culture and loss of time, energy and resources are the major cones of a positional leadership model in which a leader is stuck to the point “I am what I am” or “I just lead the way I lead” which common but terrible mindset of a leader.

“Extraordinary works are done by heart, not as a job" Qasim Ali Shah

It is not wrong to apply positional leadership model but it must be modified with inspirational leadership model for effective and efficient teamwork.  The inspirational model is highly concerned with the behavior and attitude of the leader, a leader has all the power and authority in the project but despite of all that leader is operating with the strings of behavior and positive attitude resulting in pros which are alternatives of cons of positional leadership. Applying an inspirational leadership model will encourage team workers to consider the project as their own project and all these pros are directly proportional to efficiency.

“You are not successful unless your team members are moving towards success" Qasim Ali Shah

Qasim Ali Shah always created a motivating domain in his session and working place (organization) for comfortable, effective and intense bold thinking. He promoted rigorous debate and participation to help generate buy-ins and getting hard on issues and data, but empathetic towards the human. He is fully equipped with a self-deprecating wit and sense of humor, which reduces his stress and increase his empathy. He unleashes other people's genius to drive others' careers, and as an ultimate result, his organization became a reputed place to grow – Consequently shinning off like a virtuous cycle of growth and wins.

“If a man practices like a leader, God makes him a leader”

To apply inspirational leadership model Qasim Ali Shah suggests 5 major points for leaders to boost energy in your team:

1.  Acknowledgment
2.  Appreciation
3.   Selfless love
4.   Positive Feedback
5.   Coaching

Coach always determines the potential of his human resource. Qasim Ali Shah use to say "I use to hire a team member or employee with the freedom of choosing his own task domain to express his full potential”

“One who never respects his work will never get respect" Qasim Ali Shah

Qasim Ali Shah didn't always try to do everything himself and for its credit; he learned the way how to hold back and give others margins for innovative think, trial, fail, absorb and grow. As a payback, he only expected the best work from his team. Qasim Ali Shah being a multiplier is not only a good listener but also a liberator. He always encouraged questions from his students in session as well as his team members and also acknowledged them.He usually says "Consider the rock bottom of your team as a crucial part of your work"

Qasim Ali Shah understood the fact that leading an effective team, uptake of their ideas and opinions, putting them into challenges after analyzing their capabilities and making sound decisions after sparking debates is the only way to lead an effective and cooperative way. He utilized every brain and hear every rising voice in his team and organization to create a movement instead of a revolt. He used to stretch individual capability and teamwork capacity of their employees.

He never assumed that his team is not smart, will never be able to figure it out without me, He always assumed his team smart and capable of making results out of tasks and launching new beneficial projects. He just defines his ownership, invest resources on team projects and hold his team accountable to him.

Qasim Ali Shah is an example of leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these type leaders walk into a hall, light bulbs glow overheads of team or audience; ideas start sliding and problems start getting solved. These are the motivational leaders who stretch their team beyond their limits to extract wonderful results, known as Multipliers; the need of today's world with an aim to do mu

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METAMORPHOSIS of Emotions | Channelize Your Emotions

Writer: Yousaf Ishtiaq Chughtai

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” Franz kafka

Our emotions are such strong conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity or a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure. In our lifes emotional management is important for achieving goals and arranging factors of productivity in an effective manner. In this domain Qasim Ali Shah simplifies the theory of emotional intelligence and management given by Danial Goldman. If you have average intelligence but the strong positive approach and emotional intelligence you will be a tycoon of future. If you have no EQ, your team will never perform in an effective way so it is important to flourish your emotional intelligence, appreciate your team, be a self-loving and give positive feedbacks.

“Skills of skilled man are all in vain unless he is not emotionally strong” Qasim Ali Shah

Our educational systems are just based on the strategy of passing students through a process of memorization which is just 1 intelligence out of 9 proposed by Haward gardener. Books are just essential for knowledge of a specific course like bachelors and masters level education. For life, there is one thing more than the books, it is emotional intelligence. Our educational system just focuses on one type of 9 intelligence which is memorization.

Haward Gardner made a research on retarded children and found that there are 9 bits of intelligence like musical, logical and interpersonal etc. Then in 90’s Denial Goldman proposed a new intelligence he named it as “emotional intelligence”-father of all bits of intelligence.

According to researchers, IQ only plays 15% role in life and EQ plays the 85%. As 85% is a big number but still in our system no one speaks and teaches us about EQ.

 “It is the peak of ferocity to control emotions, will make you ashamed by emerging out on a wrong time” Qasim Ali Shah

We are always taught to control our emotions like to control aggressiveness with a reference of holy verse of Qur'an which have a meaning in Urdu “to control your aggression” But is this true that our Holy book Quran is teaching us to control our emotion of aggression” Whereas controlling emotion cans can play a destructive role in personality development. Answer is NO

When we go back to original Arabic words of the verse we found that the Arabic word “iqamat” meaning “to link a filled well with the empty one”, in Urdu, we have no suitable single word for this word but in English, we have a word “channelize”. It was a just misinterpretation of the holy verse in Urdu

 “Hold aggression as a constructive part of your life” Qasim Ali Shah

We must learn the ways to hold our emotions and channelize them in an effective, positive and beneficial ways, our systems are unable to teach us in this aspect. Find aims and goals and setting your life targets are the best ways to channelize emotions. Your aggression is like a fuel, burn it to accelerate your life toward your goals and channelize it to achieve your goals. We are just using our emotions in a destructive way by bashing and spoiling our own personality.

“Controlling aggression will ultimately de-shape the personality” Qasim Ali Shah

If you ever visit a jail you will find highly educated people in jail due to crimes like murders, and the reason behind this is lack of emotional management. Even battles came to blow and thousands of civilians died just because of one leader’s aggression (see Napoleon’s history)

Similarly, like aggression the other biggest emotion is love. Qasim Ali Shah mentions it as “king emotion”. He refers a book “think and grow rich” by Napoleon Hills telling about the reasons behind success, the writer tells he studied 2000 biographies of successful people concluding that behind all these love emotion was a robust cause. Qasim Ali Shah mentions love emotion as a strong emotion, it is the single emotion that tends a person to focus and takes to the highest level of humanity. This emotion creates such a gap that even with every comfort in life, one feels uncomfortable. Kings become beggar just for love so is love emotion controllable? No, but one can channelize it.

“The worst part is to control emotions, emotional management is to channelize it” Qasim Ali Shah

Unfortunately, in our system of education, we find fewer movies and stories about our leaders, singers and actors who got success just because they were unable to get their love. No one ever told us that our great leader the founder of Pakistan “Jinnah “ was deeply in love with her wife “Rattee” and her death channelized him to be a great leader. We studied how Pakistan was carved on the world’s map but never studied the life of great leaders, which made him a leader. Love emotion never dies but sleeps after 38 days if you don't give time, attention and sacrifice, love emotion has a life, charms of this emotion become lesser to a little after 18 months of love marriages. You can't hold the love emotion, the only way to hold it to find a target and focus what you learned from love on your goals.

“Learning to manage your emotions built self-confidence” Qasim Ali Shah

In short, emotions are strongly linked to memory and experience. If something worst has previously happened in your life, your emotional response to the same stimulus is likely to be strong. It is vital to be aware of our own and other’s feelings. Highly emotionally intelligent people always do it. Like other skills, it is a skill that can be developed and is well worth acquiring.