Your attitude and aptitude are playing major role in determining whether you will be successful or not. They will determine how high your life will be (hence, the altitude).We all have our own character. Our character is just the sum of our attitudes toward various aspects of our life. In other words, how we react to our surroundings determine whether we will success or fail.
Some attitudes will no doubt head for destruction. One attitude that I certainly now cannot accept of any human being to have is purposeless. If you do not have the sense of purpose, you are a mere existing. You have stopped living. When you stop living, death is assumed in a very near future.
So stop existing and start living!
Another attitude which is equally dangerous is carelessness. This is having no sense of ‘use your head before you move’ or ‘use your brain before you talk’. That is what we also refer as foolishness (or stupidity). Foolishness is not what you are. It is your attitude, you can change it or you can choose not to have it. People can choose whether or not he is being foolish. People can actually pretend to be stupid, because stupidity is simply a behaviour.
So, stop acting like stupid, because you are not!
I often tell my friend that there are three kinds of people that I could not stand and do not want to have anything to do with. They are the idiots, the nuts and the retarded. (Not referring to the mentally challenged). These three groups are basically the same. If you stop your own foolishness, you will soon be able to differentiate between these three types of people.
STUPIDITY AND FOOLISHNESS.
Stupidity and foolishness is not only rampant in school time but also in work fields. There are lots of people act foolish and think they are being smart. As a doctor, I saw frequent foolishness during my day at work. The most frequent is people who are pretending to be sick, just to get sick leave and skip work. They think they are so clever in convincing the doctor about the sickness. Soon enough, they will fool their own immune system and ended up really sick.
As a doctor we have learned that, your body and your mind are one. If you constantly sending message to your body that you are sick, pretty soon you body will create the symptoms of being sick. The symptoms could be just a headache, next time it could be cancer! You want to know more about mind and body, please read Anthony Robbin’s Book Unlimited Power.
Just the other day, my wife’s work mate was fired because she was abusing the company telephone. Her bill got to RM2000 when her salary was only RM600 per month. Previously her telephone abuse cost the company RM3000 but she was forgiven. Her background was that, she cannot afford to lose the job. She is supporting her elderly mother and two younger sisters who were still in school. They were living in a rented apartment which cost her half the salary every month. To lose the job would mean the end of the world for her and her family. In fact my wife was so disturbed just to know that her workmate was fired; my wife wonders how they could live on.
When my wife relates to me the story, I simply said ‘sometimes I marveled at some people’s stupidity’. What is more stupid than this? You cannot afford to lose the job, but you are doing your very best to get fired. Not once but twice. It is just like pissing and defecating on your own rice bowl. What can be more stupid!
Back in school time, such stupidities were paramount. They just don’t realize it. As I said earlier on, they think they were being clever.
Some examples are; students who pretend to study hard just to impress the opposite sex – it is stupid simply because when one is pretending, the effort and concentration are absent. Consequently, they will fail miserably in their exams, regardless of whether they manage to impress their friend or not. Believe me, failing in exams is a great turn-off of any showing-off.
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students who tried to do art (drawing) in SRP and SPM just so they can boost their aggregate – it is stupid because while their unit may be up, but their mental ability will remain the same. When they get to Form Four or to pre-university, once again they will be having problem in facing the mental requirement needed for the qualification.
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students who smoke and drink – it is stupid because the money they use to buy cigarettes and alcohol is supposed to be helping them in their quest for success. Furthermore, each puff of cigarettes and each sip of alcohol will kill some of their brain cells. Not to mention the health problem they going to have.
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students who got pregnant while in school – what do they think! It is simply stupid because, how are you going to continue your study if you have a baby to look after. Please do not even think that you can give the baby away, throwing baby will get you to jail (end of story) and getting caught being pregnant will guarantee you to be expelled from school.
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students who play truancy – it is stupid simply because they refuse to be successful in life. They are in fact planning to fail.
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students who had relationship with teacher so they get a high mark – again it is stupid because the achievement will be artificial and you will have trouble when you encounter the real challenge.
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students who cheat their parents money by using study as an excuses – it is stupid because they are cheating themselves. Their parents already lived their life and it is not them who will reap their son’s stupidity. When the parents are no longer around, the cheater will realize that he actually succeed only in cheating himself. I have real life example of this. Read the example in the next page.
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students who cheat in their assignment and exams – it is stupid because, again the success you going to get is an artificial one. No wonder they will be among the stupid employees later in the work force.
Many more examples, I just got sick of telling them. (Please read on ... more sickening storries).
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