To those who are reading for grading purposes, the post for that purpose was actually done here.
I made the most amount of realizations from Adhiraj’s post.
I have a new-found belief (or so I think) in the importance of a right attitude to life.
Agreed, I believe that we have to have the right mindset to first stand a chance of succeeding in life. I firmly believe that to be successful, one has to play to win, and not play to not lose. One must have the winning mentality in them to even stand a chance of winning.
Quoting from Paul Dunn of Buy1Give1,
Watch your thoughts,
they become your words.Watch your words,
they become your actions.Watch your actions,
they become your habits.Watch your habits,
they become your character.Watch your character,
it becomes your destiny.
Our attitude, our character, our mentality results in our destiny. It is thus safe to say the future is in our hands.
Decisiveness: Absolutely essential. Our world is orders of magnitude more dynamic than a few years back. Which means a lot more decisions, some very critical. Just a few years to go and we'll be working men dealing with the systematic randomness of the world. It's necessary to get into the "habit" of making good decisions quickly.Again, this reminds me of something someone else said. Forgot who tho. I think it was Mr John Yip from Awfully Chocolate, but I can’t exactly remember. Basically, it went like that.
Entrepreneurs make decisions with the belief that at least 70% of the decisions will turn out right. If you want 100% of your decisions to be right, you are better off in the civil service.
Over the course of the module, I’ve also seen some disagreements between members of other groups, and if there’s one thing I’ve learnt from watching these disagreements, as well as from listening to Hoong An, it’s that washing your dirty linens in public will only increase the problems.
And going for the World Entrepreneurship Day and listening veterans like Alvin Lee share their views, I discovered other things about myself that I was never able to put into words before. I liked Mr Lee’s concept of silent defiance, and when Paul Dunn shared the quote
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it”
-Albert Einstein
Alright then, off to sleep. Intensive mugging week ahead.
2 comments:
lurrrve the last quote! don't get the second last one so much. Why is there an "at least"?
ah, because as entrepreneurs, we have to accept that there will be times that we are wrong, that we cannot be right 100% of the time if we are to react fast to situations, sometimes we might just have to take a leap of faith, and believe that it will all work out.
Sometimes, there's is also no clear right/wrong decision, and we just have to trust our gut and take the plunge.
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