Lessons in Life
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
There some lessons in life, that you’ve heard others telling you, but you just shrug it off, most probably coz you’ve never faced something like that, or you think you’ll never face things like that.
But thankfully, I’ve kept those lessons in mind.
Fact of life #1: you’ll always meet difficult people. These “difficult” people gets much, much more “difficult” when they know they’re difficult, and they couldn’t care less about it, ’cause they’re your boss.
Procrastination kills: it really, really kills. We humans are always over-confident. We always think “hey, that’s easy lah.. 2 days kau dim”. But there’s always some pesky problem or challenge, lurking, waiting to pounce on the unwary.
One’s base personality, never changes. That’s what my cousin told me when asked why do some employers look at an interviewee’s SPM results. An employer can look at one’s youth, and come to the conclusion that there are some habits/attitudes that may resurface, or that one is more prone to. The better your present track record, the less one will be worried ’bout your base personality.
Last but not least, there’s a Cantonese/Mandarin saying that goes something like a day passes if you’re happy, and a day passes if you’re unhappy too. There’s no point in being angry, frustrated and harboring all those stress you get from difficult people.
Some things you can learn from a book. Some things, you can’t. Some things have to be learned from observation, from thinking “what have I learned during industrial training? What would I learn, if I did industrial training again?”
