Last Sunday I had the opportunity to attend the Perdana Discourse Series organized by Perdana Leadership Foundation featuring keynote speaker Prof. Emeritus Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abdul Razak with the title The Power of Youth: Building a Better Future in the Face of Economic, Social and Environmental in the Anthropocene Era.
He started his speech by thanking the emcee and talked about how the introduction in his CV was too glorified. He doesn't want people to be impressed with his CV because, in the academic world, too many people focus too much on their credentials, but the moment they open their mouths to speak, nothing worth listening to. He wants people to judge him by the content of his speech, which I was really impressed by at the end of the speech.
Here are some of the insights that I gained: