Donkey, Father and Son
I have shared this story with a lot of my friends, but thought put it on the blog so that it can benefit more people from this story. So here it goes.
Once upon a time, (of cos I start from this lah, what you expect? Bored? U give it a time lah :D) there was this grp that comprise the father, son and a donkey. They were travelling to the market that is a long distance away from their home.
On the way, two passerbys saw them and one of them commented to the other:" These two people are crazy, got donkey also don't want to ride." On hearing this, the father ask the son to ride on the donkey while he himself walked.
A father's friend came by, talked to the father for a while, then look at the son and said:" You should be filial to your father, how come you are riding the donkey while your father is walking? You should let him ride while you guide the donkey." So down came the son and the father ride on it.
Further down the road, two aunties came along and one of them commented loudly:"Aiyoh, the father so bad, make the son walk while he himself ride the donkey. This must be a bad father." So expected, the son and the father now ride on the donkey instead.
Next, they reach a wobbly wooden bridge that does not have any safety barrier to prevent things from falling off the bridge. Because both of them are riding on the poor donkey and the center of gravity is high, the poor donkey lost its footing and all three of them fell off the bridge and into the rapid flowing river below.
Does this sound familiar? Everytime you want to do something, and when you tell your friends. There are people who are so enthusiastic to give advice. Especially those that are against what you are going to do. For example, "Why you want to do business?", "MLM is bad, they are cheats", "Don't invest in equities, they can make you lose money!" And because of these comments, you decide to halt what you want to do and think again whether you should continue with your decision.
The thing here is I am not asking you not to listen to people's opinion. The key here is these are your friends. You know what their backgrounds are, so I am sure you can access why they said such thing. Why a friend may say that investment is bad? Did he lose money in investment? How he lost it? Why a friend say that doing business is risky? Has he done it before? If he has, why he failed? Are you likely to repeat his mistakes? U really have to assess why they say it. Like I said, you take advice from people who have been there and done it. You want to be rich, you ask opinion of people who are rich or going to be rich. You want advice to invest smartly, you ask people who are already successful in investment.
Don't take people's opinion at face value. Assess and decide whether you want to listen to their advice. You are the best person to assess what you want to do. Do not let other people's opinion affect you until you are paralysed and not do something that can benefit you.
Cheers!
Once upon a time, (of cos I start from this lah, what you expect? Bored? U give it a time lah :D) there was this grp that comprise the father, son and a donkey. They were travelling to the market that is a long distance away from their home.
On the way, two passerbys saw them and one of them commented to the other:" These two people are crazy, got donkey also don't want to ride." On hearing this, the father ask the son to ride on the donkey while he himself walked.
A father's friend came by, talked to the father for a while, then look at the son and said:" You should be filial to your father, how come you are riding the donkey while your father is walking? You should let him ride while you guide the donkey." So down came the son and the father ride on it.
Further down the road, two aunties came along and one of them commented loudly:"Aiyoh, the father so bad, make the son walk while he himself ride the donkey. This must be a bad father." So expected, the son and the father now ride on the donkey instead.
Next, they reach a wobbly wooden bridge that does not have any safety barrier to prevent things from falling off the bridge. Because both of them are riding on the poor donkey and the center of gravity is high, the poor donkey lost its footing and all three of them fell off the bridge and into the rapid flowing river below.
Does this sound familiar? Everytime you want to do something, and when you tell your friends. There are people who are so enthusiastic to give advice. Especially those that are against what you are going to do. For example, "Why you want to do business?", "MLM is bad, they are cheats", "Don't invest in equities, they can make you lose money!" And because of these comments, you decide to halt what you want to do and think again whether you should continue with your decision.
The thing here is I am not asking you not to listen to people's opinion. The key here is these are your friends. You know what their backgrounds are, so I am sure you can access why they said such thing. Why a friend may say that investment is bad? Did he lose money in investment? How he lost it? Why a friend say that doing business is risky? Has he done it before? If he has, why he failed? Are you likely to repeat his mistakes? U really have to assess why they say it. Like I said, you take advice from people who have been there and done it. You want to be rich, you ask opinion of people who are rich or going to be rich. You want advice to invest smartly, you ask people who are already successful in investment.
Don't take people's opinion at face value. Assess and decide whether you want to listen to their advice. You are the best person to assess what you want to do. Do not let other people's opinion affect you until you are paralysed and not do something that can benefit you.
Cheers!
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