Think and Act Anew

I must admit Sunway University’s “Think” slogan is kinda cheesy! 

But having said this, the Sunway University Business School boss spent a lot of time thinking! And some of those deep thoughts were generously shared with faculty members – one of which is so meaningful that I just have to share Associate Professor Foo Yin Fah’s email with everyone else. 

With just three days from the dawning of a brand-new year, I trust he doesn’t mind if I reproduce it here in my blog:

“What is the coming of a new year but merely the turning of another page in the Gregorian calendar. The page has turned 365 times over the past year, so why is the 366th time so special. Notwithstanding that next year we will be turning the pages 366 times, I guess welcoming the new year is about saying goodbye to the old one. And when an old year passes by, it will never come round again. So we want to look towards the new year with hope and anticipation of better things to come. Perhaps we want to forget the past or we just want to have a different tomorrow. 

This is a time to start afresh. As we contemplate our resolutions for the new year, I wish to share a very compelling and appropriate quote for the season by Abraham Lincoln from a speech he delivered in 1863 when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation:

'The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country'. 

Although our mission is not quite to save our country but building our School will be just as challenging. We must disenthrall ourselves of the dogmas of the past. 

We must THINK and ACT anew!” 

Isn’t the above so weighty, so insightful, so profound? There's no need to be astonished! He is, after all, my head honcho at SUBS – somebody who is wise, informed and perspicacious!