Excerpts from my forthcoming book

Asim Alavi Asim Alavi

Asim Alavi

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发布日期: 2023年5月29日
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Excerpts from my forthcoming book
…There are many lessons for fathers to learn. After a crisis, like the devastating earthquake that we have been discussing, one should possess a clear mind and strong resolve to accept the reality. While in a deep crisis one should not imagine of returning to the life one enjoyed before the crisis and inflict wounds on one’s soul. That will not take one anywhere. During times of crisis, the whole family expect strong leadership and motivation from the father. But if the father is shaky in fortitude and lives in hopeless mood, the whole family descend to hopelessness. If he gives strong leadership and make efforts to keep the family’s motivation high, then the family members see new horizons in life and cultivate positive qualities such as confidence and love of life. Here is a story in which the father behaves positively with no whining or cursing others. Such a rare behaviour cannot be attributed to the compulsion created by the earthquake, because nurturing good behaviours take a long time. It is a basic characteristic of healthy family life. TRT World (27 February 2023) reported the following story: “…Abdi Dogan, 51, is rummaging through the rubble of his two-storeyed house in Islahiye, a small town in south-eastern Türkiye. His daughters have very specific requests – one wants her flute, and another is looking for her favourite hair dryer. Dogan, his wife and four daughters managed to escape before it came tumbling down like most of the buildings in the region, close to the epicentre of the first earthquake in Kahramanmaras. “This is my younger kid’s homework,” he says, showing a model of an iron bicycle made by the eight-year-old. “She always got good grades, producing nice models at her technology design class,” he says, holding the iron bicycle, even as an excavator demolished a damaged house across the street. Excerpts from my forthcoming book, “The Earthquake Hero” – Lessons in Crisis Management

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