Life Expectancy: 65 Years
Claud
An avid collector of your hopes and worries, a romantic at heart.
She thanks her fairies, for blessing her with people who know compassion down to an art.
For accepting her for who she is, who never fails to turn up,
in times of need as well as happiness, or just there for a loving hug.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
What is Success?
Hmmm...after watching a video on TED of a talk by Alain de Botton, I realise that i should pursue what i love more. It justifies the things what i've been doing, and all.
"Not everyone can be Bill Gates, although that's not what the magazines tell us. They say that if you have a bright IT idea, and a garage, you can make anything happen.But I think success is something that is subjected to large randomness. An accident, something dropping on your head...it's very difficult to be successful.
Success should be your own idea and not based on what other people suggest.
A meritocratic state is an ideal, we should work towards that, but it is extremely difficult. In the Middle Ages, someone who is from a lower social class is deemed as "unfortunate" while, today, that same person is "loser". It shows how we have shifted in our ideas of who is in control. When we fail, we take it personally. This idea was proposed by Durkhein in sociology and how it has accounted for reasons of suicide."
=)
A man after my own heart.
10:29