By Romora Edward Sitorus
The new trend of today economy is its superdynamism. The truth is no longer simple. It is not just all about the fundamental. It happens to be more case-per-case approach. No longer has Panacea been found. Therefore, in this fast-changing environment, if we think ‘smarter then everybody else’ should we’d better wake ourselves up. Since when we start to listen lesser than required, and doing less than we needed (not only lower bound requirement), we are throwing away chances to find the additional clue to the next big innovation. As economy runs in a blink, people have to be more sensitive. And the thing is, feeling so smart can make people being numb of changis.
Being ‘Foolish’ is the new standard for talent workers, professor, professional who want to do something in life, to create state-of-art, and innovative solutions. The one who persistently believe and prove at those remark is Steve Jobs. He started being ‘foolish’ and ‘hungry’ as early in his life and takes the step to develop his dream and vision from listening to voices.
In the knowledge economy, the ‘smart’ will be extinct and the ‘foolish’ will persist.
-Romora Edward Sitorus-
Picture: Bettina Arnold
I am doing my final thesis recently. And I am hardly familiar the new mathematical approach that I need to adopt. If I don’t nurture this attitude makeover, it is hard to imagine how I can’t deal with it. For me, it is to keep trying new things, stop thinking about how people see you even when you seem to be ‘lose’ because of being ‘foolish” in the beginning. Sure, how could you master something without falling to error? Error is inherited in every learning process. And it is about trying in quantity to make you better in quality. According to Pandu (2008), Quantity goes coherently with Quality. If you want to get better, you can’t start to look smart and back away. You have to open your mind and heart, and start making errors to gain excellence.
Looks like a beginner is better than looks ‘smart’ but half-baked inside. People can seem to respect us at times even when we do wrong things. But this is not the right way; good people will correct us and form us with a fine approach. Ther are people back then that will stay with us when we are in the top but if we seem to fail, they will quickly turn their back on us. Therefore, we should see ourself from the objective insider eyes, The God within us. Don’t get sway by the herd. Choose carefully our success team, our circle, the one we can really share with, the one who are happy for our success and feel bad for our failure, but keep on supporting you when we are in need. This is the real friend. The standard should not be changed, we should be changed. It needs some part of us to being hungry for change, meet the objective changer person around us and keep our brain fresh by always keeping aside a room for improvement.
