Professor Dr. Origan Vasanth Jathanna

 

Adam Grant writes in 'Hidden Potential'

"The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you have reached, but how far you have climbed to reach there.

When we admire the great achievers, we focus narrowly on their performance. It leads us to elevate the ones who have accomplished the most and overlook those who have achieved the most with the least."

It was forwarded to Rev. Dr. Santy. S. Paul who teaches at the KUT Seminary, Kannammoola, Trivandrum.

He responded:

"It makes me think of my professor Dr. Origan Vasanth Jathanna, who is still an amazing personality in my theological journey, who  had secured a PhD from the University of Basil, Switzerland, taught at UTC for more than three decades and was the Principal for a term of seven years and after stepping down taught as an ordinary teacher for a couple of years under his colleague. Even as being an exemplary critical - creative mind who has instilled the spirit of theological enquiry in the minds of hundreds of students (may be a few thousands) he hasn't published widely despite his doctoral dissertation and a few  academic journals. Recently he wrote a letter to one of his students who was designated to be the principal of a theological College. It was 14 pages much richer than a theological document.

He has allowed his student to publish his letters posthumously, but not now.

That is the person."

"Adam Grant takes us to the mode of evaluation in which the process is much more significant rather than  the end.

This is indeed a challenge to the marauding philosophy:

"End justifies means."

Thanks for sharing 

The response was brief:

"A wonderful discourse. Brought out the best in you. You are certainly an enigma.

And Prof Jathanna. When brilliance and humility combine, we have him before us. 

He is miles ahead of us all."