Pugar Restu's posts with tag: think the opposite
ASK FOR A SLAP IN THE FACE.
If you show somebody a piece of your work and you ask them ‘what
do you think?’, they will probably say it’s okay because they don’t wanted to
offend you.
Next time, instead of asking if it’s right, ask them what’s
wrong.
They may not say what you want to hear, but the chances are
they will give you a truthful criticism.
Truth hurts, but in the long run it’s better than a pat on
the back.
DO IT, AND THEN FIX IT AS YOU GO.
Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect
something before they actually do it.
Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you’ve got,
and fix it as you go.
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OVER THE TOP.
when the Berlin wall was due to come down, a junior executive* of a
certain advertising agency came to me with an idea for pasting a poster
on the other side off the wall.
I said,"Good idea, but where are you going to get the money from?"
he said that he had some saved up.
I said,"How will you get it done?"
He said,"I'll get it done."
He did. It made worldwide news.
Needless to say, he went off to start his own company.
All the best ones do.
*Paul Cowan.
THE AGE OF UNREASON.
Old golfers don’t win
(it’s not an
absolute, it’s a general rule).
Why?
The older golfer can hit the ball as far as the young one.
He chips and putts equally well.
And will probably have a better knowledge of the course.
So why does he take the extra stroke that denies him
victory?
Experience.
He knows the downside, what happens if it goes wrong, which
makes him more cautious.
The young player is either ignorant or reckless to caution.
That is his edge.
It is the same with all of us.
Knowledge makes us play safe.
The secret is to stay childish.
Salomon Brothers, the well-known New York investment house, met with
prospective clients not once a month or once a day, but three times a day.
That is unreasonable.
But it works.
Most people are reasonable, that’s why they only do
reasonably well.
George Bernard Shaw
said:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable
man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable
man.”
When we are young we jump into the pool whether we can swim
or not.
We have no fear.
Either we swim or we drown.
Before the age of thirty important things happen to us which
shape the rest of our lives.
The first is:
We become aware of ourselves and our own thinking.
We reach
the age of reason.
The second is:
In our new-found maturity we begin to think in a more adult
way.
We become grown up.
Recklessness and risk are not compatible with age.
Risk becomes something which must be carefully considered.
THE RAW MATERIAL
This man can make his body anything he wants it to be.
He may want to be a postman, a nice chap, salt of the earth
with good friends.
He may want to be the manager of a shoe company.
He may want to be an actor or a film director.
He may want to be a company director with a jaguar car and a
house in the country.
Or a government minister with two jaguars.
What this man wants, he will get.
But he has to want it enough to go about getting it.
Dreaming and talking about it won’t achieve anything.
There is only one person who can determine the shape of your
life.
You.
Who are you going to be?
When you look back there will be things you will regret.
You made the wrong decision.
Wrong.
You made the right decision.
Life is about decisions.
- Am I
going to have the practical car or the fast car?
- Shall
I go to college or get a job?
- Will
I have wine, beer, or water?
Whatever decision you make is the only one you could make.
Otherwise you would make a different one.
Everything we do we choose.
So what is there to regret?
You are the person you chose to be.
Many people reach the age of forty, only to realize they
have missed out on life.
In many cases they had everything going for them, except
when the gauntlet was tossed their way, they lacked the courage to pick it up.
No one is going to cut off your right arm, take away your
motorbike or put you in jail if you don’t succeed.
A friend of mine whose father had links with the IRA was in
a spot of bother, so he went to his father to advice.
He said,’Dad, I’m in trouble.’
The father asked,’Are they going to kill you?’
He said,’Oh no,no.’
His father said,’Son, you don’t have a problem.’
Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should
pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.
 | IMAGINE | Sep 3, '06 11:57 AM
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EVERYONE wants an exciting life,
but mostly people are afraid to take the bull by the horns.
So they take an easy option for
an exciting life.
They live their excitement
through other people.
By aligning themselves with
famous rebels, a little bit of glamour rubs off on them. They imagine they’re
like John Lennon, Ernest Hemingway, George Best, Liam Gallagher, Lenny Bruce,
Janis Joplin, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, etc.
The difference being, these
people when faced with a decision took the outrageous one, not knowing where it
might lead them, but knowing that the safe decision had danger written all over
it.
| I WANT | Sep 2, '06 11:01 PM
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I WANT MEANS: if I want it enough
I will get it.
Getting what you want means
making the decisions you need to make to get what you want.
Not the decisions those around
you think you should make.
Making the safe decision is dull,
predictable and leads nowhere new.
The unsafe decision causes you to
think and respond in a way you hadn’t thought of.
And that thought will lead to
other thoughts which help you achieve what you want.
Start making bad decisions and it
will take you to a place where others only dream of being.
| I WISH | Sep 1, '06 7:47 AM
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I WISH MEANS: wouldn’t it be nice if…
If you always make the right decision, the safe decision,
the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.
Always wishing life was different.
| TRAPPED | Aug 31, '06 2:45 PM
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It’s not because you are making the wrong decisions,
It’s because you are making the right ones.
We try to make sensible based on the facts in front of us.
The problem with making sensible decisions is that so is
everyone else.
In 1881 George Eastman, a junior clerk, left his safe job in a local bank to start a photographic company.
But here is the interesting part.
Seven years later he changed its name to 'Kodak", an odd choice since
it was meaningless and in those days nobody gave random names to
serious products.
Eastman's reasons for choosing the name were that it was short; that it
was not open to mispronunciation; and it could not be associated with
anything else.
Even today, corporations cannot think like that.
Only entrepreneurs can.
it is the wrong way to think
but the right way to win.
let us start off on the right foot
by making some wrong decisions.
You can’t afford the house of your dreams.
That’s why it is the house of your dreams.
So either find a way of getting it (you’ll find the means),
or be satisfied with dissatisfaction.
sadisssssss!!! salam indies!!!
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