The Huge Opportunity
Not a long back, I witnessed a guy about to join a position. That was a very good position & truly he was lucky to join it. What confused me is that he was not all that excited. He told me that he wanted a different profile but because this is a good position he is joining it. Precisely he told me that IT IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY.
That was sharply shocking for me at once. I mean I have seen people doing it always but that time, I was forced to think about it. More I thought about it more evident it became. Once in a lifetime opportunity is just a fact & it is no greater fact than 'this is a blog not a book'. That's it. It is not a reason. Now I knew that guy, he was not lazy or stupid. So.. Why was he doing that?
Answer to that question brought me to a basic weakness in most of us. We lack character to say NO to anything that is 'Once in a lifetime'.
I applied same principle to what drug addicts do, they went for it just once in a lifetime, its a different matter that they got addicted. Most of us don't make that mistake because we already know about the addiction part. If we are untold about it, surely all of us take the 'Once in a life time opportunity' The analogy is absurd I agree but it makes the point.
At base of both the cases above there is one similarity. Our lack of character to say NO to Once in a lifetime opportunity. Its property of being Once in a lifetime makes its so tempting for us that we take it unconditionally.
Akio Morita (The Co Founder of Sony) faced the same situation in early days of Sony. He was offered a deal of 100,000 radio sets. Now assume me or you. If are a CEO of a newly born company with a production capacity of 1000 sets are given such an opportunity. We will call it Once in a lifetime for any CEO of a small company & will say yes.
What Akio Morita did? He said No!!!Was he absurd? Most people from his management team at that time believed he was! But he thought that such kind of growth would not be sustainable for his company & employees. He can not hire a lot & fire it next year. It was against his ethics. He refused to expand unless the momentum is sustainable. That was the character of Akio Morita & we all know how far he took the Sony.
The point is that it is good to jump from stair 1 to stair 10 if you think that it will not hinder you from moving further. The man who jumped 10 stairs at once & now taking a full day to recover is far worst that a man whos taking one stair per minute. But for that we all need to make a choice at stair one. The choice is to move 1 stair at a time or took once in a lifetime Opportunity to jump 10 of them at once. I agree it takes a lot of character to refuse the temptation of standing at stair 10 ASAP. But Its a brutal fact that Once in a lifetime opportunity is just a fact. Not a reason.
Begin a thinker I believe that you all will base your decisions on reasons not on emotions.
Arpit
That was sharply shocking for me at once. I mean I have seen people doing it always but that time, I was forced to think about it. More I thought about it more evident it became. Once in a lifetime opportunity is just a fact & it is no greater fact than 'this is a blog not a book'. That's it. It is not a reason. Now I knew that guy, he was not lazy or stupid. So.. Why was he doing that?
Answer to that question brought me to a basic weakness in most of us. We lack character to say NO to anything that is 'Once in a lifetime'.
I applied same principle to what drug addicts do, they went for it just once in a lifetime, its a different matter that they got addicted. Most of us don't make that mistake because we already know about the addiction part. If we are untold about it, surely all of us take the 'Once in a life time opportunity' The analogy is absurd I agree but it makes the point.
At base of both the cases above there is one similarity. Our lack of character to say NO to Once in a lifetime opportunity. Its property of being Once in a lifetime makes its so tempting for us that we take it unconditionally.
Akio Morita (The Co Founder of Sony) faced the same situation in early days of Sony. He was offered a deal of 100,000 radio sets. Now assume me or you. If are a CEO of a newly born company with a production capacity of 1000 sets are given such an opportunity. We will call it Once in a lifetime for any CEO of a small company & will say yes.
What Akio Morita did? He said No!!!Was he absurd? Most people from his management team at that time believed he was! But he thought that such kind of growth would not be sustainable for his company & employees. He can not hire a lot & fire it next year. It was against his ethics. He refused to expand unless the momentum is sustainable. That was the character of Akio Morita & we all know how far he took the Sony.
The point is that it is good to jump from stair 1 to stair 10 if you think that it will not hinder you from moving further. The man who jumped 10 stairs at once & now taking a full day to recover is far worst that a man whos taking one stair per minute. But for that we all need to make a choice at stair one. The choice is to move 1 stair at a time or took once in a lifetime Opportunity to jump 10 of them at once. I agree it takes a lot of character to refuse the temptation of standing at stair 10 ASAP. But Its a brutal fact that Once in a lifetime opportunity is just a fact. Not a reason.
Begin a thinker I believe that you all will base your decisions on reasons not on emotions.
Arpit
2 comments:
Emotions provide us strength also .Like what a father can do for his hungry child might not able to do under normal circumstances. Decision making must have all the ingredients in proper ratio to make it a good decision. There is nothing useless until and unless u make its ur weakness or don't know importance of it
You are right sandy.I didn't intend to call emotions useless.Emotions inspire us. That's right.But emotions hinder in right decision making. That's exactly why a doctor father is not allowed to operate his son.
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