Through all facets of life, even in our studying, learning, and training, God lovingly guides. Associate of ISCAST, Michael Bräutigam, shares about how God has taken all his training into a plan where nothing is wasted.
During my final years of high school, I aspired to become a Christian counsellor. Friends and family said they enjoyed talking with me and appreciated my listening ear. So, putting two and two together, I figured counselling would be a natural fit. Spoiler alert: that never happened!
Back then, though, I took this counselling idea seriously, thinking that was the path ahead for me. After consulting with Christian psychiatrists and psychologists, I enrolled in the psychology program at my hometown University of Trier, which at the time boasted one of the leading psychology departments in Germany.
However, from the moment of the earliest lectures, I was completely thrown off guard. The professors talked about empirical design of experiments and statistics, and there were so many numbers and equations that my head was spinning—and maths has never been my forte. This was not what I signed up for! Nevertheless, I persevered and eventually fell in love with my field and somehow, even ended up tutoring statistics—though to this day, I have no idea how that happened given my allergy to maths. My main focus, though, turned out to be cognitive psychology: conducting memory experiments and gluing sticky electrodes to poor subjects’ heads.
Read the full article at The Melbourne Anglican.
