Hi and thanks for stopping by. This second post is a continuation of the first one titled 'the law of the vital few'. I am very delighted at the the number of comments it received. In this post I’d like to share my views on the subject.
My take is that your results are largely dependent on your behaviour, in other words how you act within a given situation. Some people call this your attitude. How you behave on the other hand is a product of your thoughts determined by what you know about the situation. Put in another way, ‘what you know influences how you think which then affects how you behave and ultimately determines your results’.
Let us use an analogy by asking a classic question; trust me this is not a trick question. What comes first - the tree or the fruit? Without getting bogged down will all the twists, you would agree that the tree comes before the fruit. The bible says that a good tree brings forth good fruit and that one sure way to make the fruit of a tree good is to make the tree good. We can therefore say that fruits are nothing but derivatives of the tree. The same portion of the bible also says that a ‘good man’ out of the good treasures of his heart brings forth good fruits. That is a man’s fruits or in other words his results are derivatives of the man measured by what he has in his inside. One can conclude that your results are a mirror image of who you are. If you want to know who you are look at your results. If you what to change your results - don’t ! Embark on a journey of re-engineering your paradigms by challenging your beliefs about issues and seeking new knowledge.
Let me illustrate this better. Imagine waking up to a nauseating smell emanating from the wastes in your bin bag. Do you go applying deodorant to the house? No. There three things you should do
1. Get the rubbish out of the house
2. Open your windows to allow fresh air into the house
3. Apply you choice of deodorant
If you want to change your results, you need to get rid of those outdated information and paradigms that have outlive their usefulness. You need to open up to fresh information. We are in an information age and the world is moving at internet speed. Tomorrow’s landscape will be crafted by children who do not know a world without the internet. Are you preparing yourself to compete in that world?
You will notice that I have emphasized the word derivative; this is because it is a word I have just added to my vocabulary by reading from one of the pros of our generation – Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad Company. I will be devoting some of my future posts to share some of his views about the word derivative. For people that have been following the recession you know that one of the words that have been popularized and also blamed for the recession is the word ‘derivative’. For starters let me say that the word is not as devilish as it has been portrayed to be. At least you agree now that fruits are nothing but derivatives and I hope you now agree that your results are a derivative of what you know.
One concept that was expressed in some of the comments on my first post is the concept of randomness. I am inclined to be sympathetic with the concept to the extent that one can argue that the opportunities that come our way in the journey of life are products of random events however our ability to harness or even recognize those opportunities are anything but random. Furthermore my belief, which is also shared by most ‘great’ people I have listened to, is that if you want something bad enough and look for it hard enough it will eventually come to you.
Keep your comments coming and watch out for where this takes us next. Please use the comment field below.
Stephen Ayorinde
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