Commentaries & Responses
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Wednesday, 13 August 08 - 03:46 PM (GMT +08:00) By Sing Chie Tie in Quotes |
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If you have nothing good to say, then say nothing.
-S.C.Tie-
Effort & Quantity
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Thursday, 12 June 08 - 01:26 AM (GMT +08:00) By Sing Chie Tie in Quotes |
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When you have done the due diligence, then what matters is the quantity you committed to it.
-S.C.Tie on that when a stock goes up 5% the person who invests $50,000 is reaping a greater benefit than the one that invests $500-
Do You Like Your Career?
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Sunday, 23 March 08 - 09:00 AM (GMT +08:00) By Sing Chie Tie in Thoughts |
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Do you like your work/career? Ask yourself these:
- Are you reluctant (dread) to go to work in the morning?
- Do you always work long and/or irregular hours and it is not of your choosing?
- Do you feel that you are not paid accordingly and/or feel marginalized?
- Do you feel that your career is not advancing or going anywhere?
- Do you dislike and/or feel inferior on what your doing currently?
If you respond YES to any 1 of the 5 questions, u earn a 20% score. If your score exceeds 60%, time to really look into what goes wrong in your work/career.
I am not a career consultant. I just mentioned this over my few years of experience as a working dude. (Yes, I had been through some bad times)
Wealth
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Sunday, 24 February 08 - 03:28 PM (GMT +08:00) By Sing Chie Tie in Quotes |
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Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities.
-Gabriel Zaid-
Shortcut to Success
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Wednesday, 20 February 08 - 10:50 AM (GMT +08:00) By Sing Chie Tie in Thoughts |
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There is a shortcut to success and everyone has access to it.
But when I mentioned this to my friends, most will reply, "There is no shortcut to success. You have to work hard and persevere for it." I find this to be half-truth and doing injustice to people.
Yes, you do need to work hard and persevere to achieve it but you also need to take the shortcut. It would be dumb not to take it when the shortcut is just so readily available to us, ain't it? It is not even a sin to take a shortcut to success. In fact, every religion encourages this shortcut to success. The shortcut to success is through education.
Huh? Go to School and Get Good Grades?
That's call formal education and it does help but that will only get you that far - getting good grades. Most of us stop learning when we graduated from our academic endeavor. Eventually we will pick up a class or professional certification or two to make ourselves more marketable to make a living. That's all good and noble.
Success = Life
Success is much like life; it is a journey and like all journeys it has a lot of junctions and obstacles. Sometimes when we come to a crossroad, stop for a while, take a breather and make a choice. The choices we make could be good and it could also be otherwise. When it is a bad move, we may get detoured and reached our destination late or perhaps at the expense of spending more money to get back on track. By then there's this little voice in our head that say, "Oh I should have known that.", "Why no one tell me this!" or "If only I have listened to Symon."Other times we come to a junction, we pave our own path. We are like pioneers in the new frontier. We will put up road signs to warn weary travelers of the upcoming potholes and sharp corners. The little voice in your head will say, "I need to warn people who come this way to be careful at this turning." or "I have to put a sign here so that other travelers can know what's ahead of them."
When I sit back and reflect on it, most of our setbacks can be avoided if only we have spend some time educating ourselves. And most of other people's setback can be avoided if we share our experience to them in order for them to avoid the same setback that befell us.
How Short is The Shortcut
When we mention shortcut, we are visualizing that we are to reach our destination at a shorter time with less cost. That's not how we measure shortcut to success. Shortcut to success is measured by how many hours you saved from avoiding a mistake or how efficiently you use your resources to reach your destination.If you know how to identify a ponzi-scheme from a genuine opportunity you could have invested your hard earned RM100,000 elsewhere. If you know that all speakers have stage frights you may be the next great speaker. If you know the value of money is at this present time perhaps you can be a millionaire 2 years earlier than planned.
Shortcut to success is about time-saving and resource allocation; not making the distance between you and success shorter. It is about cutting down the delays but not cutting short the kilometers/miles.
So How Does Education Help?
Education reveals the misconceptions and debunks the myths. Best of all, it is all within our reach. Learning from other people's experience is the best way. It can come in the form of a book, an interview or even a good film/documentary.Successful people like to tell the rest of us how they make it and in hope we do not have to go through the same challenges they went through. It is our folly not to heed their generosity.
Successful People are Teachers
Knowledge is gained while wisdom is earned. The most fulfilling intellectual social obligation anyone can achieve is to share one's wisdom with the world.PS: This blog entry is dedicated to all the successful people in my life who have generously coached me to be who I am today without expecting anything in return.
Luck: The Insignificant Signifance
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Tuesday, 19 February 08 - 10:41 AM (GMT +08:00) By Sing Chie Tie in Thoughts |
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When someone says "You are lucky" I know they meant well. I smiled and with the most pleasant tone possible would thank them for the compliment. However it prompts me to think - What is Luck?
The Luck Delusion
Luck, according to Dictionary.com, means the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities. A very neutral term but we generally refer luck as a good omen. However, how can we differentiate a pure luck and one that's man-made?I firmly believe that 98% of the luck in this world are man-made while the remaining 2% are what I would say require some sort of divine or serendipitous intervention.
Successful People Are Not Lucky People
Success is no luck (or otherwise categorized by me as man-made luck). One becomes more successful when one is in focus and determined. Success is a cocktail of determination, perseverance, confidence and a whole lot more other good qualities of life. One's success is considered as luck by others simply because the others do not put into their mental equation that success come to those who work hard and smart on it. Success begins with the mind. If one has constructive thoughts, success will come easier. A wiser dude once said, "The mind attracts what it constructs." If one think one is a loser then a loser one is and vice versa.
The Significance of the Insignificant 2%
Having debunked that 98% of luck is man-made (i.e. if one works hard, smart and have the mental health that attracts success), the remaining 2% is what I call pure luck - the insignificant significance.Consider the following: You are driving carefully and suddenly a car skidded from the opposite lane and miss you by an inch - just an inch - leaving you and your car unscathed. Now that's pure luck. Have you drive 1 mile or kilometer faster, you could put your life in danger. How can you explain this using logic? Pure luck cannot be logically explained. Stuff that happens when it happens for good or bad is what pure luck is all about.
And it is this pure luck that one tends to love and hate. It is the almost and merely of our life. Sometimes when I reflect a little on the pure luck I incidents I experienced, I might be able to connect the dots to a specific event(s) that may be the catalyst that triggers the occurrence of pure luck later in my life. By then it is still pure luck to me. How could I know by doing something (i.e. drive at 90kph) now can help me avoid a tragic event (accident 5 seconds down the time line)?
666 & 888
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Sunday, 17 February 08 - 10:24 AM (GMT +08:00) By Sing Chie Tie in Weird & Wonderful |
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A screenshot taken on my D drive on 25th October 2006 and then, it showed 666MB. It was significant since I opened up 'My Computers' and there you go!
On a more interesting note, I prefer to call the '666' as the number to signify antichrist as I feel it is more accurate. Other people has more interesting explanations and some of them do beg for second opinions and/or should be given second thoughts. Check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast.
Then about a year later - 1st November 2007, my C Drive hit 888MB. 888 is a very prosperous number combination for the Chinese. As with the above, it showed when I just open up My Computer window.
Some coincidences just do happen!
Living Life
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Sunday, 17 February 08 - 12:19 AM (GMT +08:00) By Sing Chie Tie in Quotes |
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Live today for tomorrow is only a forecast.
S.C.Tie
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