"Seven Blunders of the World"
1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce without morality
5. Science without humanity
6. Worship without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle
—Mahatma Gandhi
I have a very fresh experience with the third blunder. A monumental idiot who announced during our conversation, out of the blue (i didn't need to know it), that his IQ is 150+. How fresh is that? We were talking about professional growth plans, what's that got to do with anything? Why would I need to know your IQ score?
Classic
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Monday 13 April 2009
Teaching for the right reasons
If you teach people just for the sake of making them feel that you know more than them, you'd be better off drugged in an alley full of idiots like yourself. You'll be more helpful there. Seriously, you'll do more damage to the person, when you just boast limited knowledge. Because a teacher is someone who is a guide or helper in the process of learning, a teacher is not someone who flaunts his so called knowledge to every unknowing individual.
You share your knowledge and experiences because you have to, cause you know better, cause information and morals need to be passed down to the generation next to you.
Also, I read an interesting line, "Know what you know, know what you don't know, do no confuse the two"
You share your knowledge and experiences because you have to, cause you know better, cause information and morals need to be passed down to the generation next to you.
Also, I read an interesting line, "Know what you know, know what you don't know, do no confuse the two"
People around you help define who you are
From the April 10, 2009. Postcards, from the pinnacles of power by Fortune editor at large Patricia Sellers, "What makes a leader? Empathy"
"Empathy. It’s a not a word that usually comes up first and foremost when people talk about leadership.
But it should.
I’ve been thinking a lot about empathy–the capacity to see things as others do. Consider Detroit’s myopic auto executives, Wall Street’s clueless CEOs and the many arrogant titans of industry who have stirred populist wrath. Many have fallen because they’ve failed to understand how their actions–their planes, their perks, their out-sized bonuses–play in the public sphere.
Empathy is critical lately, but lack of it has long been a CEO career killer and will be forever more. Through two decades of reporting, I’ve seen it dozens of times. One of the most memorable: Doug Ivester, the onetime accountant who headed Coca-Cola (KO) a decade ago and knew the numbers cold, never understood the power of perception. A tipping point before his forced exit was a 1999 crisis in Belgium, when parents claimed that Coke products had sickened their children. Ivester dismissed the hullabaloo, leaning on lab tests that indicated no health hazard at all. The data, you see, didn’t matter as much as consumer perception. Ivester lacked the ability to see the problem through Belgian eyes and paid for his errors with his career."
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Relating to the people around him is one of the most important things that a man living in a world where interacting with other people makes or breaks him in all aspects. Ignoring this simple fact will give leave you in tears. Literally. You may get a few paces ahead of people, but the glory that you will get by treating people like trash or the same will be short. A taste in your lips.
"Empathy. It’s a not a word that usually comes up first and foremost when people talk about leadership.
But it should.
I’ve been thinking a lot about empathy–the capacity to see things as others do. Consider Detroit’s myopic auto executives, Wall Street’s clueless CEOs and the many arrogant titans of industry who have stirred populist wrath. Many have fallen because they’ve failed to understand how their actions–their planes, their perks, their out-sized bonuses–play in the public sphere.
Empathy is critical lately, but lack of it has long been a CEO career killer and will be forever more. Through two decades of reporting, I’ve seen it dozens of times. One of the most memorable: Doug Ivester, the onetime accountant who headed Coca-Cola (KO) a decade ago and knew the numbers cold, never understood the power of perception. A tipping point before his forced exit was a 1999 crisis in Belgium, when parents claimed that Coke products had sickened their children. Ivester dismissed the hullabaloo, leaning on lab tests that indicated no health hazard at all. The data, you see, didn’t matter as much as consumer perception. Ivester lacked the ability to see the problem through Belgian eyes and paid for his errors with his career."
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Relating to the people around him is one of the most important things that a man living in a world where interacting with other people makes or breaks him in all aspects. Ignoring this simple fact will give leave you in tears. Literally. You may get a few paces ahead of people, but the glory that you will get by treating people like trash or the same will be short. A taste in your lips.
Saturday 4 April 2009
A bothersome event
Woke up at 4am from a loud noise. Ah, my alarm worked, good for me. Turned off the alarm, struggled to sit up. This is a god awful time to do anything, let alone go training, I thougt, but it was quickly replaced by my urge to get better in preparation for our upcoming race. Stood up, woke up my brother, then I picked up my bag. Hydrated with 2 glasses of water, went to the bathroom, then we left. Seemed like a normal day, as things were the same as always. We rode the first jeepney that we saw. I sat beside the drive, my brother sat behind him.
My mind was in all sorts of places between sleep and being awake, when suddenly I heard the woman beside my brother scream. Looked up the mirror, saw her terrified expression looking at another passenger. He was ugly, wasn't surprised why the woman was screaming, I thought she was under a attack by a disorder or the sort. Turned my head, everyone on the jeepney was scared of the same man. I looked at the man, shit, he was holding a gun on his right hand. It was a hold up.
Demanding everyone to cooperate and hand over their belongings. I wasn't really shaken, to my surprise I felt that I was only observing. I gave my cell phone over, so things won't get any worse. My brother hesitated to fork over his valuables, so the man demanded my brother to hand over his bag. Yes, his bag. Which contained his cell phone, wallet, PSP, a new pair of shoes, articles of clothing, credit cards, atm card, etc. Maybe that's why he was hesitating. Instead of the additional scare people get when their relatives are in danger, I was covered a rush of anger. This stupid little man was threatening my brother, I wanted to whack him with the paddle that I was carrying.
My mind was in all sorts of places between sleep and being awake, when suddenly I heard the woman beside my brother scream. Looked up the mirror, saw her terrified expression looking at another passenger. He was ugly, wasn't surprised why the woman was screaming, I thought she was under a attack by a disorder or the sort. Turned my head, everyone on the jeepney was scared of the same man. I looked at the man, shit, he was holding a gun on his right hand. It was a hold up.
Demanding everyone to cooperate and hand over their belongings. I wasn't really shaken, to my surprise I felt that I was only observing. I gave my cell phone over, so things won't get any worse. My brother hesitated to fork over his valuables, so the man demanded my brother to hand over his bag. Yes, his bag. Which contained his cell phone, wallet, PSP, a new pair of shoes, articles of clothing, credit cards, atm card, etc. Maybe that's why he was hesitating. Instead of the additional scare people get when their relatives are in danger, I was covered a rush of anger. This stupid little man was threatening my brother, I wanted to whack him with the paddle that I was carrying.
He demanded the driver to drop him off the side of the expressway near the pasay rotonda exit. But it was more like asking him politely, the way two men on the same job talk to eachother.
What a bothersome event.
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