We are all born educated but we were sent to school to become uneducated. The word education came from the Latin root word “educer” which means ‘bring it out’.
However, we went to school to ‘load it in’ rather then ‘bring it out’ – as best we were learning only what others have discovered. There is a big difference between Intellect – descriptive information and Intelligence – in born knowingness.
If one never makes mistake he will never learn – but only protecting his ego.
The history of successful people, many has hit right down to at bottom before they success – this awakened them and they are prepared to do any kind of job to succeed.
The founder of united motor works, Mr Chia Yee Soh who came form China with sandals and worked in a bicycle shop; he then became a self learned mechanic. He opened his own bicycle shop, and then started to repair motorcycle, also self-learned.
This brings out the second point: Challenging our capability – this is the the only way to advance.
Successful people do not wait for others to teach. In fact, all multi-millionaire did it even without any formal education e.g. Late Tan Sri Dato’ Loh Boon Siew can’t even sign his worn name in English.
Do we know who we are? Are we capitalizing on our capabilities?
Late Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong shared in a TV interview that his secret of success: what ever other contractors do not want to do, or can not do, I do.
Many people go for the easy thing and easy money, but with the expense of knowing their true capability.
What made millionaires successful is that, they did not do all the work; they used their intelligence to generate health.
Who is our best teacher? The mistakes we made.
