3.

0 METHODOLOGY
Methodology refers to the analysis of methods and appropriate tools used in any field of
study. For this report, there are some research methodology used by the researchers in order
to fulfil the study objectives.

3.1 Library Research

Involves searching of information sources related to psychological theories related to
motivation. Information were gathered from a detailed search in library consisting of content
from the internet, related books and specific articles from the magazines. Each of the content
then will be examine and analyse and relatable content will be link to each of the objectives
and problem statement.

3.2 Movie Review

The 1994 American romantic comedy drama, Forrest Gump which is a film based on the
1986 novel directed by Robert Zemeckis is chosen for this research in order to study how
motivation can actually affects and changes a persons life. The movie described the life
circle of a slow witted person, Forrest Gump and how he can actually overcome each of his
problems living in a sceptical society since his childhood by applying great amount of
motivation every day, perfectly synchronizes with the objectives of the study.
3.3 Content Analysis
Collection of articles and report from a wide range of media were gathered and specific
analysis is done to gain a set of beneficial information based on actual events regarding
motivation issues.
3.3.1

Berita Harians article about Irfan Khairi

Article from local newspaper, Berita Harian which shows the story of hardship of online
millionaire, Irfan Khairi regarding about his life during his study life in abroad. The article
also emphasised on how he developed himself to be a successful person.

3.3.2 Majalah 3 Documentary Kak Nah GPS

A documentary from a local documentary show,Majalah 3 about the life of Kak Nah and Pak
Mat, peoples who suffer from severe physical disabilities but still shows a bright personality
in their daily life to seek for earnings is chosen in order to complete the study.

4.3 CONTENT ANALYSIS

For this report, researchers made an observation and decided to pick an article from local
newspaper, Berita Harian about a young successful online millionaire, Irfan Khairi and a
documentary from local documentary show Majalah 3 regarding to Kak Nah, a dwarf who
suffers from severe physical disabilities but shows an opposite personality. Both of this article
and documentary were chosen to accomplish the study.

4.3.1 FROM CLEANER TO MILLIONAIRE

An article from local newspaper, Berita Harian published on 18th March 2010 were chosen by
the researchers to enhance the case study. Neatly wrote in the column of Varsiti holds the
story of a young man who study abroad in United Kingdom who dreams to change his future,
Irfan Khairi.
Studying for two years in Staffordshire University, United Kingdom, it was the most painful
and critical period for Irfan as he tried to overcome his limits in everything. Getting ready
early in the morning, he walks for an hour from his campus to the KwikSave Supermarket to
work for two hours before walking back to his campus to attend classes starting at 10 am. His
work every day covers chores including cleaning floors and toilets.
Reminiscing back his old days in United Kingdom, he acknowledge himself as a nerdy,
always shy and afraid for every single time he was assigned to speak in front of a large
crowd. He even did admits that he was lack of motivation and only have a few friends during
his study years. Spending most of his time by reading and involving in small business did
occupied his time from getting into useless and unhealthy activities.
From the article, it was said that Irfan started his part time job because of insufficient amount
of scholarship and the inner needs from himself to gain experience to work in a foreign
country. Receiving salary for 2.70 dollar an hour, Irfan incredibly managed to collect about
RM 21,000 along two years his stay in United Kingdom. Despite gaining a massive amount
of money, he acclaims of receiving a high level of discrimination by the locals specifically by
the managers at his work place. He have to bare every single day receiving downgrade acts
from them even for a slight mistake during his working days. Fortunately, he is able to
change every discrimination he receives as an encouragement for him to achieve more in the
future.

After ending his studies in United Kingdom, he successfully getting a job as a multimedia
negotiator in Netmedia Education in Birmingham. He is able to get attention from the
company after creating a base of online learning for students in school. According to Irfan,
the best investment is for yourself and if people think that he did succeed become as a
millionaire in a young age, it is all because he started early in the hardest way. Irfan Khairi is
now a millionaire, an online business professional, a motivator and media celebrity at the age
of 39 years old.

How the article can be relate to the objectives of the study:

a) The importance of motivation as a life booster
From the objectives of the study, the article did highlighted the importance of motivation as a
life booster. Living abroad at a very young age is not something that can be easily adapted for
most of people. Irfan Khairi did achieve his goals because of his determination. He managed
to overcome any boundaries in front of him because of a very massive amount of motivation
firing inside him. To walk an hour back and forth every day, facing humiliating situation and
even trying hard to socialize in a community turned into a weapon for him to reach his dream.
b) How a society can demotivate a persons mental disability
The second objectives include on how a society can demotivate a persons mental disability
and in Irfan Khairis situation, he is actually the same threat a person who face a mental
disorder would face. Being humiliated and receiving a high level of discrimination in foreign
society would actually demotivate Irfan if he does not have his own stand. Living in a
sceptical society who keeps on judging, treating him bad and discriminating can turned him
down if he acts like a normal person who does nothing. According to Irfan, the best
investment is for yourself and by having his own stand he did succeed ignoring and facing
each of barrier he receive while living in United Kingdom.
c) How a low witted person overcomes psychological issues in life
In Irfan Khairis case, we could easily observe that he is not a low witted person based on
what he is doing and where he is on that time. But by focusing on how he overcomes tones of
psychological issues in his everyday life, we could gain a lot information from it. By isolating
himself from others and making himself busy, Irfan Khairi easily get himself distracted from

any psychological issues although he did receive a negative impact from it such as being a
loner and did not have a normal social life while his days abroad. By making his own
resolution, Irfan Khairi did overcomes all those issues and becomes a brighter and successful
person.

Berita Harian 18th March 2010

Another article on Irfan Khairis life journey on newspaper

4.3.2 Kak Nah GPS

A local life documentary produced by TV3 in their sustainable documentary show Majalah 3
entitled Kak Nah GPS wrote by Nur Wanah Kiramli was chosen by the researchers for
some provable reasons for this study. Living in a rural area Kg Julok Tumpat, Kelantan and
having a moderate facilities in everyday life did not cause a barrier for Sanah Ngah or better
known as Kak Nah,a dwarf who is having a whole life physical disabilities to have a bright
and positive life like the others. Born with small physical features and having a limited
movement in daily routines could be a big reason for anyone else to give up in life but
unlikely for Kak Nah.
Her life routine may be seems unfortunate by the others but Kak Nah does really enjoys with
what she is doing. Living with her brother in law, Muhamad Jusoh or better known as Pak
Mat after her parents death unites them as a working duo to seek for earnings. What make
things more difficult is the condition of Pak Mat himself who suffered from complete
blindness since his childhood. Their everyday routine needs them to work in synchronizes in
order to gain money for survival. Starting as early as 7 in the morning, Pak Mat and Kak Nah
never show any signs of getting tired or bored with their job.
Kak Nah and Pak Mat daily routine may be seems impossible for anyone else but that is what
they have been doing for the past 40 years. Everything started when Pak Mat got an idea on
how to make his job easier by having Kak Nah as his companion. After some thoughts, he
transformed his own bicycle into a better vehicle as he decided to have Kak Nah as the
navigator. By having their own modified bicycle, both of them now can travel more than 3km
around the villages and nearby places to find reused aluminium cans every day. Being asked
on her first reaction receiving task as a navigator, Kak Nah said that it was terrifying as there
were a lot of cars on the road but after Pak Mat keeps on motivating her, she gets better from
day to day. In presence, Kak Nah is now acknowledge by the villagers as a skilled navigator
for Pak Mat. Kak Nah now can easily memorise all the routes to nearby villages and even to
the border of Thailand.
Their daily routine collecting cans along the road ended in the noon every day. All of their
collection will then be gathered at their house. Living in a moderate lifestyle, Kak Nah
prefers to have home cooked meal as their lunch every day. Things are different in the
evening, Kak Nah and Pak Mat will have their own personal business while at home. When
the clock ticks to 2pm, Kak Nah will open her own mini stall in front of the house.

She sells various kind of snacks and sweets. Starting from a modal of RM50, her small
business did receive positive response from nearby villagers. While Kak Nah is busy with her
selling, Pak Mat will have his own personal time weaving fish trap. After having personal
learning from his friend, Pak Mat is now a pro as he could produce up to ten fish trap sold at
price of RM5 for one unit every day.
Reflecting on their life, Kak Nah said that she is grateful for what both of them have today.
Even she did have disabilities, it is not a reason for her not to be happy and to have a better
life like a normal person did. As for Pak Mat, he consider every weakness that they both have
to face is not a barrier but a reason for them to strive for survival every single day.

How the documentary can be relate to the objectives of the study:

a) The importance of motivation as a life booster
From the documentary, researchers can closely relate the whole documentary with the
objectives of the study. The importance of motivation as a life booster is the most related
objective with the documentary of Kak Nah GPS. Reflecting on the life of Kak Nah and
Pak Mat, they are both living with major disabilities as Kak Nah is born as a dwarf while Pak
Mat suffered from blindness since his childhood. To compare with what they are doing now
with their presence physical is a complete contra. Although living in difficulties, both of them
show a bright and strong personality unlikely what others would perceive about them. Having
a high level of motivation is the only reason for them to stay positive all day long. According
to Pak Mat, every weakness that they both have to face is not a barrier but a reason for
them to strive for survival every single day while for Kak Nah she keeps on saying they
cannot stop and if they did they would never able to have a better life. From their sayings, it
is strongly proven that what keeps both of them going is their own inner motivation.
b) How a society can demotivate a persons mental disability
The second objective of the study is to study how a society can demotivate a persons mental
disability. From the documentary, it can be clearly seen that Kak Nah and Pak Mat have a
healthy mental and normal thinking process like the others but their physical disabilities
could cause a similar impacts toward persons with mental disability. This can be seen if Kak
Nah and Pak Mat did not have a better resolution, a wiser way to improve their life. Imagine
if both of them did nothing and only hoping for help from others and only then the study can

generally analyse the way a society would react and how both of them can get demotivate just
because of the bad impression of others towards them. By having their own way to seek for
earnings, this shows how a person who have disabilities either physically or mentally can
overcomes any psychological issues in their life.
c) How a low witted person overcomes psychological issues in life
Despite having severe physical disabilities, Kak Nah and Pak Mat did face the same
psychological issues faced by a low witted person. Living with unlikely routine than other
people did probably would cause a lot of psychological issues for both of them such as
receiving hates and discrimination from the villagers. But fortunately, Kak Nah and Pak Mat
live with a positive and a fresh mind set every day. To live happily like other normal people is
what they want to achieve. By living positively and constantly keeping their goals alive is
what makes them got to overcome any psychological issues in their life.

Kak Nah and Pak Mat or their real name, Sanah Ngah and Mamat Jusoh being interviewed at
the early of the documentary