Sunday, June 7, 2009

Swimming theory 1

Long time ago, I was always chasing the ultimate goal "Get pay without work", thinking how I can just sit there and money keep coming time to time. I remember when I worked in my first job, every time I went to washroom and stood in front of the mirror, I always smiled to myself and said, "I work here can earn around 0.65hkd per min, this time I shit around 10mins, that's mean I do nothing but only shit can also earn 6.5hkd. The company pays me for shit." This is the beginning of "Get pay without work". Later on, I just aimed on this goal thinking how I could expand it.

After 4 years , I am proud to say that I got a great success in this achievement. Right now, I got around double from salary, this company not only pay for my shit, but also pay for chatting in msn, writing on my blog and reading daily news. Around 50% of my "working" time is only worked for myself. I am experienced in how to transfer my workload to other people and get the result. I am experienced in judging and persuading people to work for me. But after these 4 years working as a node, transfering information but not collecting or using it, I feel there is something wrong, this is not the right system I should keep using for my life.

When I was a child during exam period, my parent always said that, "Go get a quiet place and concentrate yourself on study, if you feel tired then go for a nap and study again afterward." So I believe that lock myself up and concentrate on one thing again and again, that will always have a good performance. So I apply this theory into my work, due to my job nature, I have enough time and space to review all the information, I believe I can learn all the knowledge when grab those knowledge from other people.

But this is wrong. I learn things hardly during this period. No matter how fast your brain can run, if you have never involved into the situation, your brain can't learn from it. "Success gives us ambition, failure gives us experience". Only work can give me the feeling in life, only work can stimulate my brain to grow.

Work is like swimming, once you get into the pool, there is no time for you to stop, you have to keep moving your arms and legs until you reach the other side, you can't dive too long if you don't get enough air, you have to keep looking for the direction in case someone cut in, you have to take care the movement to reduce unnecessary energy lost. Only bring yourself into dilemma and feel sweating, then you know that you are really in learning.

Go out now, to be continued...

4 comments:

ca ca said...

ich freue mich darauf, deine "continue" von deine blog

Anonymous said...

Swimming theory 2...made more swimming competition of yours like the one that we all won long before we born...diudiudiu

mukdaphan said...

Very nice comparison.

You can be a poet.

I love the theory.

S.M. Wong said...

haha, thank you for interest, second part is coming soon.

let go swim then.