I finally found the key!
This is a little bit outside the script!
Yesterday while I was practicing to bend,
I tripped once and I tried practicing it 3 times
to avoid being the subject of Marwan El Mekhlafi’s Comedy Show “Laftet Nathar”).
What currently happens,
or the idea behind the key I was just talking about,
reminds me of the story of the man who was looking for the key
because it dropped from him in someplace
and he sought the help of his friend:
“Can you help me and we look for the key together?”
His friend told him “Of course”.
Then when he started asking him “where did you drop the key?”
He said “it dropped in this dark area”
His friend asked “Now using logic, we have been searching here
and yet leaving the dark area over there without searching?”
He simply said “because the available light is stronger here!”
The story of the key is greatly connected to the stories of the students
who are searching for college and job specializations
because they use methods that are not very different from this man
who kept searching in the wrong place.
Let me simplify it more.
How many students researched his/her area of specialization in the available areas
whereas his/her own aspirations and interests haven’t been discovered yet and are still in the dark.
I want to ask you a question.
How many high school students do you expect graduated in the past 5 years?
Guess any number that comes to your mind…
600,000…
We’re talking about 1,040,000 high school students graduated in the past 5 years.
I wonder how many of these high school students actually added value to the society
or are currently adding value through their productivity and innovations
and how many of them are still looking for jobs?
A question that stimulates curiosity.
But I would like to say that there must be a solution for such high school students.
In Yemen, when we look at Yemeni youth
who wish to be creative and leaders in business,
we are talking about passion that provokes creativity ethics and imagination.
We are talking about the ideas they bring to reality.
We are talking about the passion that truly generates productivity.
We are currently in dire need for the Yemeni youth and their energy
because they compose more than 50% of the population.
And the Yemeni youth are the ones who can push the wheel of development.
They are ones who can improve the economy. When?
When their energy is directed towards development
and when their opportunities for innovation are enhanced. 46 00:03:03,53 --> 00:03:06,66 Of course we now notice that our society has regressed.
Any other society also has regressions,
has neglect, lack of productivity, lack of innovation,
but there must be roots to the problem.
This is what honestly drove me to do a research on this subject.
During the research period, I listened to the mature adults
and I touched on the youths’ daily suffering.
Most of those whom I’ve talked to said that they all took up specializations that don’t suit their interests
and today, they don’t feel loyalty at work,
they don’t feel competence, and they don’t feel internal satisfaction.
So I asked myself, is it possible to have generation after generation without finding a viable solution?
So I linked this subject to 2 matters in life in which if someone makes a wrong decision,
he either gets stuck or falls in the trap, or regrets.
You can understand it any way you want.
The initial decision was surely not right. The matter of marriage…
Please don’t misunderstand me, I love my wife and the choice I made was very successful.
The matter of education binds you for long years in your life. 0:04:14.800,1193:02:47.295 The 2nd matter is education for sure.
My goal from today’s speech is that we exit this hall after connecting passion with success.
Not just by words, but by statistics, facts and examples that exist.
And we propose a solution together and see the effectiveness of this solution.
Before we dig deeper into this subject, let’s watch this simple video
for the 2 most common examples that were present during the research period.
Let’s watch this video together.
Welcome!
In our Yemeni society, we find a lot of examples of Ezz and Mai,
who went through experiences that didn’t match their ambitions.
Ezz for example was skilled in sports and received many awards in sports championships at school.
He had a strong desire to achieve his aspirations and become a distinguished sports champion.
But his dreams clashed with his father’s desires who insisted that he specialize in Business Administration.
When Ezz submitted to his father’s wish and specialized in Business Administration,
which wasn’t his area of interest,
he lost his passion and interest in sports.
And the society lost the sports model of Ezz,
who could’ve made a difference in the Yemeni society in the world of sports.
And the example of Mai, who also found herself going through the medical specialization,
despite her inclinations and passion for arts.
And after 7 years of studying in the field of medicine,
she joined the medical job force.
One day, she found herself wanting to enjoy her hobby of graphic design.
At that point, she found herself working with more creativity and productivity without any boredom.
And in defining moments, she decided to leave the medical profession
and entirely direct herself to the graphic design field, and make successful strides,
and in a very short time, own one of the most successful advertising companies,
and she regretted the years she spent in the medical field.
How many of us went through experiences like Ezz or Mai,
or even know people who went through similar experiences?
Can we do a show of hands because I am also one of them.
It looks like the majority of attendees.
We can all imagine the number of people who went through those experiences
and they are outside this hall and exist in our society.
When I conducted my research, I target close to 350 individuals who filled the survey.
The majority of the subjects had completed their bachelor’s degree
and the rest had just finished their high school only.
How many of the 350 do you expect said that they found the necessary help
to choose the specialization that best suits their interests?
Whoever said 30, you will receive a prize from me later.
They said only 30%.
This means that 64% said they did not receive the necessary help to choose the suitable specialization.
This is a large percentage.
And who did they depend on? Their family and friends to make those decisions.
I can understand if a friend of mine tells me “Mohamed, I have 2 shirts,
help me decide which one I should pick.” I tell him “this one.” I don’t add too much
and it’s just a shirt that he will stop wearing after a while.
He can ask me another time about a mobile phone he’s trying to pick which one to buy
and I can help him by saying use this one because it has certain features.
He uses it for a while and then gets rid of it or renews it.
But when he comes to ask me about his specialization, which he will live with for long years,
this is what I don’t comprehend.
The essence of the story is that in our society, we got used to hearing lots of stories.
If your high school score is 90 or higher then you are for sure going to be a doctor.
If your score is in the 80s then you will be a successful engineer.
If your score is in the 70s, then you should study Business Administration.
This is not the story.
The story is much bigger than this.
93% said that it is very important to start early in high school
to search for the specialization that best suits one’s interests.
That’s not all.
98% said that there should be a mandatory program
that’s integrated in the curriculum of the 4 years of high school
with a goal to guide the students in choosing the specialization
that best suits their interests and passions.
They also said that such program will benefit the Yemeni youth
and will yield a positive impact on the society.
Now, what ideas are out there to limit the examples of Ezz and Mai whom we saw in the video?
If we imagine that there is a program named “Tanweer”.
Tanweer program’s main objective is to discover the students’ interests
and help them in choosing the suitable specialization that matches their interests.
Tanweer can be offered through training programs.
We know that we currently have training facilities that offer these services,
but there isn’t a widespread system and there isn’t prevalence in school systems.
We aspire that these training facilities are held more systematically.
Tanweer Program can be offered over the internet through youth empowerment institutions.
We have all seen the youthful energy when they adopt an issue, they adopt it with interest.
And we’ve seen when they adopted the issue of cleanliness or any other issues of concern to the society.
This is a very important issue. The coming generations are going to affect our future.
We must focus.
The youth initiatives were truly applauded because the matters they adopted
are truly important issues they needed to adopt in the next stage.
But let us dream big and ask what our future will look like
if Tanweer Program was adopted in the school system, last 4 years of school?
Tanweer Program, where I can enroll my son in 9th grade
and can start being assured that he will finish 12th grade
walking confident steps knowing that he’s going in the right direction.
If only 25 hours were dedicated during the last 4 years of high school,
they will be enough to increase the chances students’ success
and they graduate knowing where they are heading.
In 9th grade, what happens? During the 25 hours,
with the help of professionals and experts in self-enhancement,
they discover if the student is interested in sciences or literature.
The following year, 10th grade:
the 25 hours are used to discover the subject matter that most interests the student.
After he has chosen sciences for example, we say this student is interested in Chemistry.
But this is still not enough.
We need to know if the student’s personality is suitable for Chemistry.
The following year, 11th grade,
we say that we need to connect the student with students who are specialized
in pharmaceuticals because his interests were in chemistry.
This results in him gaining practical experience that already exists.
And he also gets a job experience in the field so that he senses the job, what is called “internship.”
He comes out of this experience very confident that pharmaceutical
is the specialization that he will graduate from.
12th grade: this stage is pre-determined
because the student will graduate knowing which specialization he is heading towards.
He only needs help with the application to join college.
He needs to know what scholarship opportunities are available,
and he also needs a roadmap of success
which is provided by the help of the professionals in self-enhancement,
to establish a future job plan.
Notice that we started the discovery in an early stage
although in Japan they start the discovery process in an even earlier stage.
The students graduate from school with a greater responsibility
for the decisions they made and we will see more productivity from them.
Now I would like to talk about what will happen if Tanweer program was adopted.
Tanweer program generates success. Why?
Because through it, we will see a doctor who is highly qualified,
we will see an engineer who is highly skilled,
we will see a creative designer without constraints,
and we will see the writer who is glorious through her writings, and a lot more similar examples.
At the end, there isn’t a specialization that’s better than another specialization.
There are innovative people who know how to benefit from their studies in the right place.
High school students: Focus on this issue.I know that the choices are sometimes difficult,
but hopefully the idea of Tanweer will spread and will one day result
in the next generations gaining these skills.
Let us look at Ezz and Mai.
When they didn’t want their experiences to repeat with their children, what did they do? Let’s watch this video.
Ezz and Mai realized the magnitude of their problem after living the details of their experiences.
They didn’t want to repeat their miseries with their children.
They decided to limit the examples of Ezz by owning his decision depending on his aspirations to fulfill his passion
and become more productive and more creative.
And limiting the examples of Mai by knowing what she wants
at the beginning of the path so she doesn’t waste years of education
and effort and work in a field that doesn’t suit her tendencies and capabilities.
And limiting the examples of others who haven’t received the proper guidance
to choose the future specialization that ensures their satisfaction.
And to contribute in knowing their children’s interests in high school
so they can take the right path and build a generation
that likes their work, in an effort to see a Yemen that’s thriving with its youth.
More productive and more innovative generations
Yemen that’s striding towards a thriving future through its dynamic generations
I hope to see an increase in the examples of Ezz’s and Mai’s children
while seeing a decrease in the examples of Ezz and Mai themselves who lived miseries.
I hope that programs like Tanweer will widely spread in training facilities,
youth initiatives, and school curriculums.
By adopting this idea that I shared with you today,
and while we all care to see the next generation truly build a Yemen with a thriving future,
I strongly believe that it will be one of the programs
that will make a true change in Yemen because simply put,
everything in our life can succeed or fail except for education and specialization.
They either succeed or succeed.
Thank you.