There was a farmer who grew superior quality, award-winning corn in his farm. Each year, he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honors and prizes.
One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew his corn. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.
"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors, when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" The reporter asked. "Why sir?"
The farmer replied, "Didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen grains from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I have to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors to grow good corns."
The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbors' corn also improves. So it is in the other dimensions and areas of life!
Those who choose to be in harmony must help their neighbors and colleagues to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others live well. The value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.
Success does not happen in isolation; it is most often a participatory and collective process. So share the good practices, ideas and new knowledge with your family, friends, team members and neighbors and all. As they say: "Success breeds Success."
Malays lack this sort of winning mentality! EVERYONE IS SO KARIT. It's one thing to be kiasu and all, but gosh, annoying much if you're like that ah... Share the f-ing knowledge.
What's so great about being a big fish in a f-ing small pond ah? You think you have a competitive advantage by not sharing and teaching people? PFFFT! Sure, go on and keep on believing that.
If you were like, REALLY ambitious you'd want to challenge yourself. Try being a big fish in a bloody ocean or something! or just a lake xp hee... wow, I'm speaking in fishy metaphors :p I find that amusing~
My birthday is NEARING! Whoop whoop!
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