This is a story told by my CS1102C (Data Structures and Algorithms) lecturer Dr Tan.
There is an old woman who has two sons. One son sells umbrella, the other sells ice-cream. She was always worrying, because on sunny days, no one buy umbrella while on rainy days, no one buy ice-cream.
One day, a friend of hers said "You should feel lucky. Because on sunny days, people buy ice-cream, and on rainy days people buy umbrella. Through a whole year, neither of your son have to worry about their business."
That is the story Dr Tan tell in the first lecture of every semester. He encouraged each of us to be positive. We can choose to be optimist or pessimist. Charles Dickens said "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. " Our attitude does matter.
One day, a friend of hers said "You should feel lucky. Because on sunny days, people buy ice-cream, and on rainy days people buy umbrella. Through a whole year, neither of your son have to worry about their business."
That is the story Dr Tan tell in the first lecture of every semester. He encouraged each of us to be positive. We can choose to be optimist or pessimist. Charles Dickens said "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. " Our attitude does matter.
2 comments:
my marketing prof described this as "glass half empty" and "glass half full". unfortunately, im the glass half empty kinda ppl. =(
I believe that if one thinks in half glass empty mindset,it can only lower down expectations.
I believe that setting high expectations and hoping and working for such expectations to be fulfilled always helps. The expectations might be insanely unattainable, but at least it sets one to work harder, perform better and achieve more than by having lower expectations.
I also believe that if you doubt yourself even before embarking on something, there's high likelihood of failure than if you have convinced yourself that you can do it. If we have our self-perception as a first level filter of what we can do and achieve, how can we perform better if we already think that we cannot do it? After all, our attitude affects our behaviour and hence our performance! Hence, I always think a degree of self-belief, a high degree of it which many label as narcissism (oops!) always helps.
But I guess you already know this - it's the Perfectionists' Creed :)
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