Hasannudin Saidin

Curating Hasannudin

This website compiles my past online presence from my inactive blogs to many of my Instagram and LinkedIn contents. From December 2016, I add new posts here (in category “hasansaidin.comBlog”) and I continue importing from elsewhere, including from my professional website/blog, rubah.my (in category “RubahWebsite/Blog”).

Why the albatross? I have been mesmerized by the bird since the 1970's when I first heard the song, "Albatross" by Fleetwood Mac. I looked for and finally in 2014 I saw my albatross in all its splendour in New Zealand.

Click/tap the song title below to play the song.

 Albatross

Hasannudin Saidin: Guiding Light For Learners

In 2015 I decided NOT to retire, but to rewire. After more than 32 years of working in corporate, it was time for me to pay it forward, on my own terms.

I will eventually pay forward to millions of people. For now I make a positive difference to the world around me, person by person, group by group, team by team, organization by organization, nation by nation.

I created my company, Rubah Associates with the tagline of Horizoning our future, like the albatross over the horizon, bringing out the best of people and myself, in finding new horizons. My “rewire” now has me focusing on being a CEO Coach.

You can find ways to contact me or connect online with me at my Linktree page.

Hasan (Hasannudin Saidin)
First posted on 21 December 2016
Latest update on 09 September 2021

The Dream

Glorious and beautiful day, 18 June 2022 when my grandsons Hyder, 6 and Huzayl, 2 won their medals (congrats!!!) at their Brainy Bunch Sports Day held at UiTM Sungai Petani, Merbok, Kedah.

We then returned to Penang island crossing the Penang Bridge (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Bridge).

Hyder sat in the car beside me telling he had dreamt the night before that Grandpa and Grandma Marsila Zainuddin would come to their Sports Day and, surprise, surprise, it became real!

Huzayl and baby-girl Hessa rode with their mommy and daddy, Nur Hafizah Umar and Hadi Hasannudin.

Video captured using "Jaja’s GoPro HERO8 Black" borrowed from Rizal Khalid and Hana Hasannudin.

Photo: The 2 finishers with their medals!

Teluk Bahang Jump

Rainy at Taman Negara (National Park), Teluk Bahang, Penang, Malaysia

Teluk Bahang Sunset

Less than spectacular colours, yet happy to be living with fishing boats in front for a couple of days.

Near-calm before the storm from my upper balcony

Melaka, June 2022

- Jumps @ Kuala Sungai Baru, Melaka, Malaysia, 4th June 2022

- Sunset @ Encore Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia, 5th June 2022

Video of jumps:

Motivation and Momentum

Last week one of my Mastermind Group members in our long lunch meetup (every 2 months) suggested that we have an accountability call once a week, where we tell each other our progress of what weekly plan we shared the previous week, then declare the following week’s plan.

 

I immediately agreed. So he and I will start on 27th May 2022 (Friday) 8am, and every Friday 8am. We invited the other 3 members of the Mastermind Group to join the call, too.

 

Although I review my monthly plan with my own coach every month, I jumped on this idea from the Mastermind member because my “weekly reviews” that I do by myself have not been consistent, especially with a family emergency I had in April and then Raya (Eid) break in May. I know that my motivation and momentum are at peak when I am consistent with weekly reviews.

 

In 2019-2020 when a friend and I were building new daily habits for ourselves, we WhatsApp-messaged each other our day’s scores before we go to bed. Sometimes we miss a night, but this went on for about 4 months till we were okay to be on our own. 😊

 

With my wife, for more than 6 years now we go on regular off-site quarterly retreats that are both a break from home-life and also "review" time. She reviews her past quarter plan and she builds her next quarter plan. As a couple, we also use those retreats to review and plan what we call our Couple Plan of common things between the two of us. ❤️

 

When lockdown came, physical quarterly retreats had not been possible so we decided to do it every 6 months now. Post-lockdown, we feel once in 6 months is fine because we are at "steady-state" now.

 

Us doing our couple planning (annual and interim) for me was inspired by my late mentor, who with her husband every Friday night dinner had a ritual of their weekly (individual and couple) reviews. What a ritual!

 

An “extreme” ritual would be by one of top coaches in the world, Marshall Goldsmith who nightly reports his checklist of questions on a call to someone he hires just to listen! See: https://marshallgoldsmith.com/articles/how-to-get-better-at-almost-anything/

Image below: Some of my to-do's

 

"Quantum leap your life!"

Robbin Khoo says, "Quantum leap your life!"

@ Pantai Minyak Beku, Batu Pahat, Johore, Malaysia

Video version:

Exploring Self-Directed Learning

 

LEARNING ALL OVER THE PLACE!


“What is the biggest challenge in learning?
- I didn’t know whether I learned enough, I did not systematically apply and learn and review and adjust or look for new information, new experts and whatnot. So I was all over the place.”



Thank you to Charmaine Yeap Xun Fang for interviewing me for her research title, “Exploring Adult Learner’s Self-Directed Learning Characteristics for Lifelong Learning in Their Professional Career.”

View the 0.5-hour video of the interview (Exploring Self-Directed Learning) above.

In the interview I shared how self-directed learning can become highly effective by taking 7 steps: find, inspect, delve, practice, review, achieve, and wrapped in a project management plan!

I thank again Johan Irwan Kamarozaman for introducing to me the field of “heutagogy” for me to make sense of my self-learning. He shared with me the valuable book, “Self-Determined Learning: Heutagogy in Action” edited by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon.

Another reference that I found is technically detailed, yet a useful book to further guide me in my self-learning: “Cognitive Productivity: Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective” by Luc P. Beaudoin.

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For a longer (1.1-hour) 2020 video of my thoughts on the 7 Steps To Highly Effective Self-Learning, see: https://bit.ly/3M2n2lT


Happy self-directed learning!

Picard on FEAR

In Season 2, Episode 6 of Star Trek: Picard, Jean-Luc Picard’s wisdom comes from his mother, Yvette Gessard-Picard! In this intriguing time travel twist, he appeases his great-great -aunt, Renée Picard about fear. 

Sometimes those who shine the brightest feel the sting of fear and melancholy in ways that others can never understand — Jean-Luc Picard

Picard needs a breakthrough

Even the great Picard needs a breakthrough

In the heart

March 2022 heralds Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard, yay! In episode 1 Guinan points out Picard’s final frontier to come.