Bah. Just wasted an hour re-listening to the first ETC lecture of the semester. All Brett did in that one was talk about general stuff >.< ahhhhh… and I was listening for important things =P darn.
On another tangent, Howard posted a set of demotivation pix on the MCAC website some time ago. After some reading of the posters, I got thinking, and I decided… heck, I’ll just post up a series of thoughts on the posters, if and when I feel like it… starting from today =P Be prepared to be bored out of your minds in the coming days, people!
Poster “One” on the list: Tagline, Defeat
“For every winner, there are dozens of losers. Odds are, you’re one of them.”
This was an excerpt for despair. It is supposed to make people feel down, feel useless, give up trying, etc.
Strange.
It doesn’t quite have the same effect on me.
To me, this isn’t demotivational. In fact, it is MORE motivational than some Motivation posters that I’ve seen. Talk about irony XD (this was posted as being Demotivational ^^”)
The way I see it, this Defeat statement is just a telling of the truth; there is nothing degoratory about it, or falsely motivating. Just the pure, simple, lay-out of facts.
I mean, you can’t really expect yourself to be the best of the present crowd at your field, much less all fields, can you? There will always be someone better than you near where you stand. Maybe because they can naturally grasp concepts on that better, or have worked longer on that issue, or have used up more time and worked harder than you at it, etc. Maybe because you haven’t worked at it. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
There are lots of ‘maybe’s that you can think up (I’m too lazy for the moment coz I want to go and boil water for tea now). But facts remain as facts. Not everyone puts the same amount of effort and hard work into something. For every person who comes out tops, a hundred more, or five hundred more, or one thousand more, or EVEN more, more, does worse than that person. Lol. On a list of 600 candidates, for example, if 10 people share the top mark, they come out as the winners. Everyone else loses because they failed to get the extra mark, or extra MARKS.
So yeah. For every winner, there are dozens, and more than dozens, of losers.
And honestly. What are the odds that YOU are that winner? Be honest with yourself and size yourself up against the other people who camp out in the libraries, do all their homework, have never skipped a class in their life, etc. Compare yourself against those who actually work for what they want, instead of relying on pure luck/brains/natural talent. Hmm. What are the odds that YOU will have better results than them, who have done all that (and more) because they can and want to, even if and when they are intellectually already on the same footing as you are?
Heh. Nothing to say?
Therefore, the poster not demotivational, but is merely a grounding in reality.
“If you aren’t a winner, the odds are that you are one of them.”
Disgruntled at that? Unhappy? Irritated? Tough luck.
If you don’t want to be, then buck up. Try harder. Do more. Stop slacking.
Aim for the sky, and clasp your fingers around a star.
Be a winner.
^_~
TBContinued. Going to boil more water now, then drink my tea, and go to bed. Ja, guys!
