Anyhow, without further ado, I will present my idea of Talent Creation formally. This is a full departure from my previous 2 posts that are more like a preview of this boring topic that I'm going to talk about. However, it is part and parcel of life that everyone has to go through. Yes, parenting, and a bit of politics.
Before I jump into the details, I wanted to differentiate between my ideas, parenting and politics. My idea is a very philosophical and generic view of life. Since it is generic, parenting is difficult because it requires a lot of trial and error. Politics, however, should not confuse my ideas. It is just a more fashionable way of setting up a factory to create intelligent humans that can do very complicated work but not rebellious enough to circumvent the owners, aka politicians. Now, not all people in politics are bad, but we all know, the truly good ones are rare.
Now, back to the 4 A's. Again, they are Aptitude, Ambition, Academy and Adversity.
Notice that in previous post, I singled out Adversity as the one hardest item to quantify. The reason is, while all 4 items are fairly ambiguous at times, Adversity is required as an input for the other 3 A's in order for someone to develop his talent enough to overcome Adversity. In fact, Adversity itself is its own input to inspire more Adversity.
Aptitude is often overqualified as the true variable of talent. However, just like we know that there are "many fake prophets", the same applies to talent scouting. In fact, I would like to draw the similarity of religion and politics as the masses following the directions of a leader, spiritual or physical. Hence, the truth I wanted to say is, be glad with the talent you have, seek the talent that can be found, but do not overdo your greed for power by seeking talent that might not be there. False gold is a common phenomenon.
Ambition is often under qualified actually, at least when it comes in contrast to talent. Ambition is often matched to talent without the knowledge of talent creation, and that often leads to dysfunctional talent sourcing. An example, one comment I always hear is that, how can a less capable person be promoted over a more capable people. The common conclusion is nepotism. It is mostly true, but another point that we should understand is, talent can be nurtured. There is a limit through each of our aptitude, but producing beyond expectations set upon us is not uncommon. If such is the case, the leadership is fairly well read into talent creation. Unfortunately, the reason why I'm writing this is because I feel it lacking abundance right now.
Academy is probably the easiest to qualify but often unrealized until after the fact. This is because Mother Nature is the true parents of us all. It provides all 4 A's without most of us knowing it, yet it is part of us as well. A less educated person can go through the same amount of academy through experience rather than literature. A less talented can compensate for its lack through industry with experience and literature. All in all, an academy should be as forgiving to everyone as Mother Nature. The problem with humanity is the shortage of such forgiveness. It is such that causes academies to become dysfunctional and decline in status.
Adversity, as before mentioned, is the hardest to qualify. It is in everything we do. It is life. Life is difficult. I feel that Life is the toughest lesson among all my lessons, yet it is the one I enjoy most and I think I have a decent handle of it. Not an A+ student, but maybe enough to pass. I can provide many examples of failure due to a lack in adversity, much more than the other 3 A's. As such, I think saturation is when recessions happen, factually of metaphorically. We know monopolies are bad, we know dictatorships don't last. Why? Lack of adversity.
Adversity is the key element of evolution. There is a problem, we need to solve it. If it is one off, we will forget it. If it keeps occurring, we will find a way to solve it completely. That shows you how difficult it is to contribute adversity into talent creation. How can you tell 2 talented individuals not to kill each other? It is almost impossible in a push and shove situation, yet, it is necessary and doable.
This is where tolerance for mistakes comes in. If we recognize that we are mere humans and cannot exist alone, accepting compromise and yet trying to outsmart one another without trying to destroy one another. The lifetime opponent as you might have heard. That is the ultimate adversity that is most conducive to talent creation. However, as all good things in life are, it is limited and it cannot be faked. One view I want to present is that propaganda is often aimed at achieving domination through suggestion and implied and fake adversity is one of politics' most common tactic. What is more satisfying to a greedy man if he can get other men to steal from people other than himself and enrich himself in the process? What is more important than keeping your society sufficiently educated and curious if you know telling the truth will make everyone lazybones like me.
Finally, I want to conclude this post with the 5th A, an item which is actually not really relevant to talent creation but one that I realized to be very crucial as well during the drafting of this post.
Acceptance. Yes, acceptance in both oneself and others. While commenting on tolerance, I noticed that I was able to come up with this post because I accepted my flaws. I accepted the flaws of people around me. In being honest to whatever I can think of, I was able to learn as much as I can from every scenario. I cannot learn everything, which I accepted, but I did manage to learn what I would have thought I couldn't. I remember I was told to give up subjects for good grades, which first, I do not accept and secondly, since it made me unhappy, the teachers did not get good grades out of me either. Deny others too much and you will be defeated.
For those in Singapore, that is the one thing I want you all to know. Tolerance for mistakes. If there is one thing we want our politicians to know is that their lack of tolerance for mistakes is unacceptable. Especially when they make so many mistakes as well. Until we can tolerate another person's mistake as long as it doesn't hurt us too much, we will never be able to find the person that can truly lead Singapore. Fortunately for me, I grew up in a family that is tolerant and have lots of love to share.
As such, feel free to share my love for the world and the world full of talents. We all can learn from one another, and I want everyone to know that.
Ambition is often under qualified actually, at least when it comes in contrast to talent. Ambition is often matched to talent without the knowledge of talent creation, and that often leads to dysfunctional talent sourcing. An example, one comment I always hear is that, how can a less capable person be promoted over a more capable people. The common conclusion is nepotism. It is mostly true, but another point that we should understand is, talent can be nurtured. There is a limit through each of our aptitude, but producing beyond expectations set upon us is not uncommon. If such is the case, the leadership is fairly well read into talent creation. Unfortunately, the reason why I'm writing this is because I feel it lacking abundance right now.
Academy is probably the easiest to qualify but often unrealized until after the fact. This is because Mother Nature is the true parents of us all. It provides all 4 A's without most of us knowing it, yet it is part of us as well. A less educated person can go through the same amount of academy through experience rather than literature. A less talented can compensate for its lack through industry with experience and literature. All in all, an academy should be as forgiving to everyone as Mother Nature. The problem with humanity is the shortage of such forgiveness. It is such that causes academies to become dysfunctional and decline in status.
Adversity, as before mentioned, is the hardest to qualify. It is in everything we do. It is life. Life is difficult. I feel that Life is the toughest lesson among all my lessons, yet it is the one I enjoy most and I think I have a decent handle of it. Not an A+ student, but maybe enough to pass. I can provide many examples of failure due to a lack in adversity, much more than the other 3 A's. As such, I think saturation is when recessions happen, factually of metaphorically. We know monopolies are bad, we know dictatorships don't last. Why? Lack of adversity.
Adversity is the key element of evolution. There is a problem, we need to solve it. If it is one off, we will forget it. If it keeps occurring, we will find a way to solve it completely. That shows you how difficult it is to contribute adversity into talent creation. How can you tell 2 talented individuals not to kill each other? It is almost impossible in a push and shove situation, yet, it is necessary and doable.
This is where tolerance for mistakes comes in. If we recognize that we are mere humans and cannot exist alone, accepting compromise and yet trying to outsmart one another without trying to destroy one another. The lifetime opponent as you might have heard. That is the ultimate adversity that is most conducive to talent creation. However, as all good things in life are, it is limited and it cannot be faked. One view I want to present is that propaganda is often aimed at achieving domination through suggestion and implied and fake adversity is one of politics' most common tactic. What is more satisfying to a greedy man if he can get other men to steal from people other than himself and enrich himself in the process? What is more important than keeping your society sufficiently educated and curious if you know telling the truth will make everyone lazybones like me.
Finally, I want to conclude this post with the 5th A, an item which is actually not really relevant to talent creation but one that I realized to be very crucial as well during the drafting of this post.
Acceptance. Yes, acceptance in both oneself and others. While commenting on tolerance, I noticed that I was able to come up with this post because I accepted my flaws. I accepted the flaws of people around me. In being honest to whatever I can think of, I was able to learn as much as I can from every scenario. I cannot learn everything, which I accepted, but I did manage to learn what I would have thought I couldn't. I remember I was told to give up subjects for good grades, which first, I do not accept and secondly, since it made me unhappy, the teachers did not get good grades out of me either. Deny others too much and you will be defeated.
For those in Singapore, that is the one thing I want you all to know. Tolerance for mistakes. If there is one thing we want our politicians to know is that their lack of tolerance for mistakes is unacceptable. Especially when they make so many mistakes as well. Until we can tolerate another person's mistake as long as it doesn't hurt us too much, we will never be able to find the person that can truly lead Singapore. Fortunately for me, I grew up in a family that is tolerant and have lots of love to share.
As such, feel free to share my love for the world and the world full of talents. We all can learn from one another, and I want everyone to know that.
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