Steps to Build Intellectual Orientation
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Physical and Mental Orientation |
Physical orientation entails seeing where you find yourself in your surroundings. This means you have to learn about your surroundings before you can place yourself within them.
Mental orientation is a bit more difficult. It requires attention to more than what your eyes see. It requires orientation to things such as days and dates. If you are not sure what day it is, you are wandering on the edge of the woods. If you do not know what month it is, yo have taken the wrong path and all the trees are starting to look alike. And it you are still writing the wrong year on your checks every April, the robins will come and cover you with leaves.
Intellectual orientation is a combination of the first two, producing what we will call situational orientation. With this kings of orientation, you are aware of both the seem and the unseen environments, which affords you the capacity to act with as much power thinking as is needed for the situation.
With Intellectual and Mental orientation a person can become very well oriented mentally. He would memorized the dates of every significant event in recent past. He does not bother to carry an address book because he knows everybody's address and telephone number as well as their birth date by heart. He jumps around eagerly in his seat until the instructor calls upon him to work a math problem on the blackboard in front of hundred fellow students. Yet, intellectual as he appears to be, there's something very odd about him. His il fitting clothes are thrown on with no correction of style and patterns. he gets tired just watching other guys working out at the gym. he very seldom has a date. Out of mind, out of sight. Thus, the person who is capable at both physical and mental orientations has genuine intellectual orientation. He can take what life dishes out, and who can handle most situations and encounters with calm assurance.
If you finds some place and you have map, look only once at the map, then go. Use your eyes, your memory, and your sense of orientation instead. When somebody gives you directions to a new place, write them down, read them through, and carry them with you, but try not to use them unless you are lost and / or running out of time. The same goes for maps. Check the map before setting out, figure out how you are going to get where you are headed, then put the map away and simply concentrate on getting there.