Agility of Minds
By: Prof. Dr. Younes Megdadi, Amman Arab University
God Almighty has blessed man with the blessing of the mind, which is the actual engine and compass of thinking by relying on his knowledge store as a cumulative harvest gained through realization, understanding and specific convictions for the purposes of employing them in managing the affairs of his life by removing them and their circumstances. Surrounding it, this imposes itself on the way of thinking and thus determines the way and style of dealing with life situations.
Specialists believe that the human mind is a set of cognitive powers that depend on awareness, knowledge, way of thinking, judgment on matters, language of expression, memory power, imagining things, discrimination, appreciation, processing feelings and emotions, attitudes and actions, and others. From the point of view of philosophers, they agreed that the human mind is a set of mental and intellectual capacities and abilities, and mental habits.
Hence, we find that what the human mind possesses of divine gains reflects his way of thinking about his personal, family, community, and career life and his relationships with others, which showed the presence of clear differences, which formed contradictions in the powers of perception in the human being, which specialists portrayed in different ways, including balance, emotion, turmoil and others. Which affects the awareness and way of thinking of the human being, and we undoubtedly deal with these images on a daily basis.
Despite this fact, we find ourselves in many cases in embarrassment and suffering from the superficial way of thinking of some due to our extended relationships with others, which indicates the existence of cases of intellectual imbalance in its various forms such as intellectual tampering, intellectual emptiness, passion for comic show, and exaggeration of appreciation, And formal judgment, arrogance in speech, analysis and forced interpretation, disregard for the minds of others, excessive falsification and others, which in total constitute a bitter reality that the majority resents, and the sad thing about the subject is that some delight in such minds with their superficial thinking and some make fun of them. In conclusion, the vernacular proverb that says “the mind is an adornment”.
On the other hand, we often hear some expressive and familiar words that indicate the agility of minds that So-and-so is a balanced, focused, courteous, advising, wise, understanding, thinker, and logical, realistic, ect. The polemics of lowly minds with shallow, emotional thinking, limited in understanding and appreciation, quick to judge without awareness, and clinging to polemics and other unbalanced intellectual practices far from the concept of agility of the mind, which has become a state of concern to many with our great fear of its consequences.
The agility of minds and politeness of thinking are among the keys to dialogue and constructive speech that enhance human mental and intellectual capabilities and rid the mind of rejected intellectual polemics. Rather, they contribute to building a personality within intellectual capabilities that make him a person who appreciates and respects his opinions and his intellectual and cognitive stock, which imposes himself with the gentleness of his speech and his proposal, but we find listening and good listener and support him for his grace of mind.
Agility of minds is a talent and skill that everyone should be keen on being important in light of the current circumstances and difficulties of life to employ them in solving many of the problems and polemics that we daily suffer and it is not unique or far-fetched the real key to building the mind and personality, considering the minds are the actual balance of the human being, pulsating with constructive and positive thought, to be the nucleus in building civilization and urbanization.
