Of scholars and bonds

Greets,

To me this distinction between fallers and fliers is just a pile of bs – at the end of the day it all boils down to the fit – if suits some people. Nothing wrong with that – if the fit is there – I say, go ahead.

Others – call them what you like, indiscipline, ungrateful or even just plain destructive, but that is how they are hard wired and the harder you try to make them fit in, the more they are going to malfunction and their supervisors will just get high blood pressure – its lose / lose either way you cut it, if you don’t believe me go and do some heuristics and probability analysis – so its best to just smoke a peace pipe and say bye bye.

One way forward is for both grantors and grantees to spend more time clarifying and sharpening the “fit” along side the need to meet long term strategic goals of both parties. I personally feel this should be strategic precondition in the selection process.

Otherwise both are just going to buy into a whole lot of grief two or three years down the road. That’s the case for not only scholarship programs but also marriages, businesses and car maintenance.

When it goes bad, it’s hardly a matter of choice though for some strange reason everyone seems to dress it up as one.

But having said that whatever life choices one makes – you are ultimately responsible for it. Pls remember this, I don’t mince my words here. You are responsible!

Having said that it’s nice to have a sexy level headed bitch like ballerina to rest your tiger beer on in the evenings and give you regular head massages, it takes the edges out of life.

So your main squeeze plays a role here too, you go and figure that part out bc I am not too comfortable with advising ppl on how to lead their personal life.

We live in a world of implications and consequences, so if you find yourself with just your two guli’s sitting down in a trailer park watching the wheel of fortune when you are old because you never bothered to think abt where you’re going.

Don’t go blaming the gahmen or some guy you listened too on TV, aint no one going to break it in two for you except yourself. I want it to be crystal here.

I am just being dead beat honest about it. That’s it, that’s the low down.

Having said all that. You really need to know your sense of worth, aint no one going to give you squat in this planet – thats the first rule.

Doesnt squat matter whether you have a cure for lung cancer, if u dont know deep within yourself what your sense of worth is – you are just worthless and some corporate shark is just going to come along and cap your value.

Thats why I think it is very important to cultivate attitude. You can never have too much attitude in my opinion – a sense of confidence, doesnt even matter whether it is delusional, but attitude is important bc in the business world that is what ppl respect.

So in my view it makes a whole of sense to learn the art of how to slam the table ten or twenty different ways to make yourself larger than life.

That I feel is a key to being financially independent, anything else just reduces you to a salaried slave and it doesnt matter how much you get, 2.2 or 3.0 or even 10 mil – slave you r, but once you take control of your financial destiny things start to change, you see the valence between work and reward – there is a direct co-relation and that goes a long way to give you a sense of confidence.

Thats why when I see an inventor the first question I ask is how much do you think your invention is worth?

If he cannot produce an answer in 2 seconds flat, I will just take it away from him. I will do that, I want to be honest with all of you! I will exploit this man, I will dumb him into servitude – is it fair?

No, but that is life.

lkh,

Hey I don’t even know you and you start the discussion by throwing mud at me? I say you are not giving it a chance. Think abt that.

Calligrapher,

“Being at the right place at the right time.” Granted 10 points. That reminds me after this I need to buy 4 D.

“mentors that befit you,” disagree strongly! 2 points. OK la give discount 2.5 points.

The whole idea of mentoring is passe.

I am not saying for one moment it doesnt work, sure its way of moving forward, like throwing canon balls to propel a boat forward or steam power.

Only the traditional master and apprentice compact raises the issue of long term operational efficiency – does it produce a good return on energy? How cost effective is it? What is it’s underlying operational features?

Knowledge used to be power that no one denies, but let’s look deeper into the whole issue of what mentoring actually is at a systematic level beyond the simple Kung fu master and apprentice relationship; what are the aggregates here? How do they interact with sum which makes up the whole?

Well in a nutshell the whole idea of mentoring leverages on application expertise. That is to say it is mainly an issue of talent and experience rather than theory. A large chunk of mentoring is based on pattern matching; monkey see, monkey do, which is why it’s so dependent on leveraging on past experience. You say what is wrong with that darkness? That’s how knowledge has been traditionally leverage to produce results! I say a whole load of baggage comes with the word “traditional” that suggest to me that it will disable rather than enable producers.

Because I don’t see how it adds any value to the conversion process – mentoring basically is formulaic methodology for lack of a better word. Now I don’t doubt its suitability in certain vocations like candle making, ikebana or how to wear a tuxedo but in the field of engineering, I really question its efficacy and relevance.

What I am saying is it pays dividends to appreciate the limits of mentoring i.e it only works if past performance (necessarily) = future performance. That’s how the relationship is expressed mathematically i.e whenever slight traces of a usability issue is observed, you “must” deduce the underlying implications for design based on an orthodox methodology or error proofing. The ‘must’ here functions as a denomination limiter – I have a problem with that, but then again it could just be me, so I have to insert a caveat here and say, I am not completely certain of the creative process.

So again we are stepping into another quadrant of the hall of mirrors – its one that ask how much of future is predicated on our capacity to cont doing things in the traditional way?

I can talk all day about this but I really wonder who in his right mind would care to listen to such unmitigated diatribe, but you get the general drift.

Ok good the traffic is moving again.