Saturday, December 4, 2010
Amazing finish
How can we get our players to fight like this after 12? Here. Have you ever seen our juniors play? What happens later and why?
A real story
After I graduated in Optics, my first job was with a fast growing Optical chain that eventually became the first Optical chain to achieve public listing in the UK. The boss then sold his shares and retired to a big house with a heated indoor swimming pool. I was told that this was also his first success in business. All his other attempts had failed. He was nearly 50yo by then.
I remember my first week there. Some of the Opticians and other staff were sacked on the first day, some after 20 minutes. He paid the highest wages in the industry and he only wanted the best.
One day I was working at a branch and there was an underground strike for 4 days. The business was down in that branch and the manager was called up and given a shelling. I thought that was unfair then but now I understand better. The point was not the strike. The point was the manager did nothing to try and improve the situation. He could have picked up the phone and call the customers. Anything to compensate for what he could not change.
This is the lesson our kids can learn from chess. The world is not "fair". But dont get bitter. It only hurts you. There are many things you can do within the rules to change things. If you continue to try, to learn, to improve, you cannot be stopped. But dont sit down and whine.
Then we will have global Malaysians.
I remember my first week there. Some of the Opticians and other staff were sacked on the first day, some after 20 minutes. He paid the highest wages in the industry and he only wanted the best.
One day I was working at a branch and there was an underground strike for 4 days. The business was down in that branch and the manager was called up and given a shelling. I thought that was unfair then but now I understand better. The point was not the strike. The point was the manager did nothing to try and improve the situation. He could have picked up the phone and call the customers. Anything to compensate for what he could not change.
This is the lesson our kids can learn from chess. The world is not "fair". But dont get bitter. It only hurts you. There are many things you can do within the rules to change things. If you continue to try, to learn, to improve, you cannot be stopped. But dont sit down and whine.
Then we will have global Malaysians.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Tournaments galore
Read here. I dont see the all malay tournament, so I think its cancelled. This speaks well for us as a community. Wishing the 1Malaysia tournament every success.
Beyond negative thinking
If you really join all the dots on this topic, you will start to see why so many continue to stay in the rut despite so many opportunities to change their condition. Me included.
The consequence of having our hopes and dreams denied can have ramifications that are lifelong. We start off by feeling bad about ourselves but eventually find a way to put the blame onto others in order to avoid those bad feelings.
That is the beginning of our self delusions. We start to explain away all our failings.
If we had continued learning and developing our judgement and taking opportunities as we travelled in our life, we would have rediscovered and accomplished our dreams.
Why take personal responsibility when you can so easily blame someone else? Blame the situation. And so we instead spend our creativity on self delusions. I think chess is a very good tool that shows us this. Move by move, game by game and tournament by tournament. If we can learn this from the game we have so much passion about, our future will be bright.
I know this will be very hard to stomach so I hope you wont just reject this outright. Take some time. Reflect on this and then observe the many who will sit down and whine when the answers are in front of them. Good luck.
The consequence of having our hopes and dreams denied can have ramifications that are lifelong. We start off by feeling bad about ourselves but eventually find a way to put the blame onto others in order to avoid those bad feelings.
That is the beginning of our self delusions. We start to explain away all our failings.
If we had continued learning and developing our judgement and taking opportunities as we travelled in our life, we would have rediscovered and accomplished our dreams.
Why take personal responsibility when you can so easily blame someone else? Blame the situation. And so we instead spend our creativity on self delusions. I think chess is a very good tool that shows us this. Move by move, game by game and tournament by tournament. If we can learn this from the game we have so much passion about, our future will be bright.
I know this will be very hard to stomach so I hope you wont just reject this outright. Take some time. Reflect on this and then observe the many who will sit down and whine when the answers are in front of them. Good luck.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Further on negative thinking
It is not "obvious" but the basis of negative thinking is the self. And the genesis is the non fulfilment of our hopes and dreams. This is a serious whammy. So I'm going to leave you to reflect on it for a while. The implications are enormous, if I am right of course.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Further negative thinking
The first thing to notice is that negative thinking is an emotive term. Negative thinking is accompanied by negative emotions. So any attempt at defining this term must necessarily include emotions.
But not just any emotions. It must accompany emotions of the conscience. Why? Because the conscience knows. Not easy to prove.
Lets look some people around you. I have met many people who have a terrible fear of being alone, of being quiet. Have you wondered why? Could it be that the moment that they stay still they will be assaulted by the things they have done, things they didnt do, how things could have been? etc etc.
Could we say that they are in a state of negativity? If that is true, then can we say that it is negative thinking that lead them there?
More next posting. At the end of this, I hope to show why you cannot see you are negative if you have negative thinking.
But not just any emotions. It must accompany emotions of the conscience. Why? Because the conscience knows. Not easy to prove.
Lets look some people around you. I have met many people who have a terrible fear of being alone, of being quiet. Have you wondered why? Could it be that the moment that they stay still they will be assaulted by the things they have done, things they didnt do, how things could have been? etc etc.
Could we say that they are in a state of negativity? If that is true, then can we say that it is negative thinking that lead them there?
More next posting. At the end of this, I hope to show why you cannot see you are negative if you have negative thinking.
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