hmm…it’s my 2nd ever blog. who wud have ever tot this will happen? bloggin in my life is such a time consuming process and such a waste of time. at the end i don’t even get the same satisfaction other ppl get from it. i jst feel like deleting it the minute i press the ‘publish’ button.
but wat makes a person successful in whatever he does?
first let’s define successful. without looking at the dictionary….i guess it’s jst being extremely good at watever u choose to do. say u are a garbage collector, but if u’re the only one in the world who can invent a system to collect all the garbage in Selangor everyday, while eliminating the smell and after tat converting that same garbage into something useful like fertiliser, i think u’ll be pretty rich. of course then there’s the status factor…ie…doctor is more respected than garbage collector bla bla bla. not interested…moving on
how about successful by how much money u earn? of course there’s the reasoning that u can never be satisfied by how much u earn. and if there’s someone who compares his salary with bill gates’, he’s not going to be ever satisfied…but tat’s boring as well…moving on. the richest man in malaysia is the sugarman…according to a fren (reliable source? lol i dunno) but it does make sense. sugar is a staple product. everyone needs it, but then so is salt…so why don’t we hear much about the saltman?
perhaps it’s to do with how unique u are in wat u do. britney spears like her or not is unique, my dad as an engineer is not unique…he is extremely good at wat he does, but there are many good and experience engineers in malaysia as well. salt is easy to obtain and many ppl can produce it, but can’t ppl grow sugar producing plants as well?
so maybe it’s contacts. sugarman has got lots of powerful contacts, or is he just a strong manipulator. does he play dirty? owing lots of ppl money, bullying his way out of things? i dunno. not going to succumb to sourgrape thinking. if he does it well, and he is the only one to have the guts to do it? then i guess he is unique.
young ppl these days like the word ‘principles’. not toking about core values (like ‘lying is wrong’ but rather a set of rules ppl generally live by or use to argue their way out in justifying anything they do. maybe sth like the rules in ‘the transporter’. but the fact that conflict arise out of personal convictions remind us of the obvious subjective nature of these principles. principles that are drawn from different ppl and learnt from different experiences.
today i had an interesting conversation with someone who has lived in this world much longer than i have but never once have i tot of tat person being too old and out of touch with the life of young ppl. three things were brought up: sensitivity,tenderness and being open to correction. thinking about this, i guess a word that sums this up is adaptability.
being adaptable allows u to modify your garbage collecting technique to suit wat matters to the masses the most in how garbage is collected and processed. being adaptable also allows u to market your product from a want to a need (staple). adaptability of course makes u unique. adaptablity makes u unpredictable to your competitors or makes u likeable to ppl who work with u, greatly increasing your favourable-contacts-list. personal principles is the only contradiction to adaptability.
personal principles held on tightly and executed with successful results boosts confidence. unchecked this turns to arrogance. arrogances numbs sensitivity, hardens tenderness and kills all avenues of possible correction. and ‘….a fall is predicted to follow swiftly….’
i dunno wat all these means. no action plan and no next step. for the moment, i will jst concentrate in being good at watever life throws at me. after all, one thing i know and that is u will be watever u make myself to be.
ps: is being adaptable a ‘personal principle’ then? tat sounds like the most boring chicken-and-egg situation i’ve ever tot of.
