Thursday, June 17, 2010
Hunger
SPRING Singapore Chairman Philip Yeo: "Hunger is the strongest motivation. When you are poor, you have no choice but move up. If you are not as poor, you can afford to take it easy, relax."
I can never think that I have arrived. I must keep that hunger in me.
Light will come at the end of the dark tunnel, but I will need to be patient. And the time horizon of a working adult stretches and becomes really long, I will really need to adjust my mindset.
Not easy, but I have to do it.
P.S. Yeah girls work to pay for their incessant shopping, comestics, skincare products while guys work to pay for their parents, house, family car and kids' education.
P.P.S. After the mind-opening learning in MTI last year, I don't regard unemployment as a stigma at all. In the US it isn't like that. Bill Gates did not complete his degree did he? I'm really happy for friends like tianguang and dingyan starting their own companies, and venturing out businesses on their own. And nowadays with affluence, some don't really NEED to work. To put it harshly, rich parents do not NEED money from their kids - they are practically helping kids to save up, by returning them the money upon their deaths. However on the other hand, the people on the US are constantly bored. They think of useful things to do outside work (that's how 'stupid' things like google and facebook came out), even with their affluence. But why can't our society do that? People who are motivated are usually hungry, and people who are affluent are usually dismotivated. Of course there are exceptions, and I'm happy and lucky to meet these people in my life.
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