Tuesday, July 24, 2007

What I truly can be

I like it if people can respect me for what I truly can be more than what I am because of my actions.

Monday, July 23, 2007

Self Confidence

Self Confidence is the willingness and boldness to take action and accept all of the consequences.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

The Purpose of a Business

The purpose of a business should be to solve a common problem at hand. It should not create new desires and new problems.

This is not my philosophy speaking, but basic economics. For example, consider the automobile industry. The Toyotas and the Nissans and the Hondas solve the problem of a reliable, economic way of transportation to a very good extent. But I would not say the same with the Ferraris, Mercedes, or the Porsches. Do they solve any common problem? I don't think they do.

In fact, they add on to, or magnify the big pile of problems we already have to deal with - envy, discontentment, insecurity. The power of the human mind should be used to solve and eliminate existing problems that make life more meaningful. It is too valuable to be wasted in creating new problems for ourselves.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Accepting Others

I should not ignore and be indifferent to habits of people that irritate me. At the same time, I should not get sucked in, and let their negativity affect me.

Instead, I should be aware of the negativity, work around it, and get my task done.

I should do this because:

- the task at hand is more important to me than fixing people.
- I love to solve the problem at hand more than solving the person.
- I don't associate people's actions with their identity.