Never Give Up

Quoted from Naruto



What essential here is your will
Yes, if you hit a wall!
If you forsake your will while hitting against the wall... You will begin to make excuses and obtain hatred in exchange for your determination
You have to step forward without abandoning your will


Quoted from Hunter X Hunter




If even a little of the resolve you have now degrades, I'll kill you.


I'm really inspired by these comics, I get motivation and inspiration on a daily basis from all sorts of sources.


Recently, is the period of applications for internships, while I receive a lot of offers for internship interviews, I did not have much success about securing them in the end.


As time pass, I feel like Meryl Streep, even though she was nominated 17 times for the Oscars, she only won twice. A lot envied her but she was also the biggest loser. So should she look on the brighter side that she was nominated 17 times or that she was the biggest loser?


After reading the comic quotes above, I realised that we have all been making excuses. The moment we fail, or hit a wall, we just make up excuses to make ourselves feel better.


Its sort of a defence mechanism. We apply false reasoning and run away from reality. We avoid them as much as possible and hide them deep within us. But by no means is that healthy at all, we should instead confront them, stop making excuses and move forward.


After all, Einstein failed for thousand of times but he did not give up. He continued moving forward, crushing every wall that tries to stop him.


Hence, I will continue searching for internships with a strong spirit and determination, continue to give it all that I have in every upcoming interviews.


I will not give up, I will not fall !

Big Bang Blue

Hugo

I'm having my BF214 quiz tomorrow on Financial Institutions. As I was studying, I multi-tasked as I watched Hugo the movie at the same time.


It is a magnificent movie I must say. Simple story plot, nothing complicated and yet its such a beautiful story.


It has a simple message, it encourages people to dream. To chase their wildest dream and dream away ...





A few key important messages that I brought with me was that we should dream, because thats the thing that keep us alive.


Also, the main character was trying to find a key to fix his automaton (a machine). He loves fixing things and he feels that everything has a purpose in life, even machines.


We all live with a purpose and that if we do not go out there and fulfill purpose, we are sort of broken, just like the automaton.


This really inspires me to push myself to go out there and really achieve what I want. To fulfill my purpose in life. I shouldn't just sit there and wait for everything to come to me, instead I should go out there and chase after my dream.



Unfortunately his father died when he was young, and he became an orphan. The station master who was also an orphan was really obsessed with catching kids with no parents.


Whenever he saw any child behaving sneakily, he will catch them and send them away to an orphanage. He believes that these kids are always up to no good. In fact, as an orphan himself, he was simply activating his own defence mechanism.


Quoted from the movie Hugo, he said "You'll learn a thing or two there. I certainly did. How to follow orders. How to keep to yourself. How to survive without a family. Because you don't need one. You don't need a family."


From his words, I could understand that he was really hurt by his experience at the orphanage. No one cared for him. People merely ordered him around and no one listened to whatever he has to say. In the end, he could only keep everything to himself.


I think from this I learnt that whenever people behave abnormally or aggressively, its probably because its part of their defence mechanism.


You really need to sit down and get to know these people rather than judging them and labelling them as the bad guy.


At the end of the day, no one is bad. It just takes patience to go out and understand them.


Alright, that's all the reflections for now :) :)


Back to studying for my quiz :)

What have we been missing out on ?

Saw this article being posted on Facebook and I thought it was really meaningful.


I believe that a lot of actions and behaviours are being motivated by context. The social context can really play a huge difference and it has been a widely studied area in Marketing and Psychology.


Read the below if you are interested :)





A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by, and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace, and stopped for a few seconds, and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping, and continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally, the mother pushed hard, and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money, but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the most talented musicians in the world. He had just played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, on a violin worth $3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste, and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?

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