Successin Life vs Success in Academic

Which is more important? I believe this is an interesting question!

Some argue, success in academic is essential in leading to success in life. Sounds logic. But a lot of rich mans (assume they are successful in life) has no or just very little education!

Another would argue, having good academic will just train you as a good employee. But without good academic how would people know you are good?

So which is more right? For me, good academic at early stage of life (up to 20 years old) is critical to build up the foundation of logical thinking, analytical thinking, self confident, ability to speak your mind, ability to do simple arithmetic, simple science, politic, finance, geography, history..........................you name it. Well you may ask sure or not have to learn so many things? The key word lies on "Foundation" - mean the basic. Obviously, our current education system in Malaysia is unable to cover some many subjects. So the responsibility lies on parents to continuous teaching our kids on everything that you know. it does not matter your kids do not understand, the important things is they are aware such things exist. Do not worry of overloaded of information, you are not forcing the kids to memorise those information, merely expanding their brain capacity. 

Research shown that human only use less than 10% of the brain, as we rarely develop it to further extend. If your body muscle need exercise to expand so do your brain. But how? I m sure you have seen acrobatic show from China that a small little girl can bend and twist her body easily as if she is boneless. How was that done? It has to do with our mental state? If you are told at very young age that this act can be done, you will believe so it can be done not at later stage. Hence the little girl has expanded her capacity beyond normal person. 

Likewise,  we as parent, need to expand kids brain capacity beyond the norm while they still believe it can be done. Once kids have reach a more conscious stage, ie they start to believe they have limitation, then it become difficult to expand their capacity. That fact is once kids enter primary school which is structured and fixed and disciplinary, they will lose the flexibility as other kids are doing the same thing - then become norm.

So please catch the golden time zone.

I think this is a extremely important exercise must be done before it is too late.