Learning from the Universe

Every day we can reflect on all the events going on around us. There is so much we can learn from the universe, for the examples:

1. Learning from the fish. Fish placed in flowing water will be faster growing than if it had placed in a still water. That is, we will mature more quickly when our lives are filled various exams and problems. The Problem will helps us to move toward to a dream. Without any problems we may never being strong, this will never be as successful.

2. Learning from the water. The flowing water will stay fresh more durable than the silent water. Still Water will decompose faster. The Lesson is when we only yells rather than moves , berate rather than action, keep staying rather than struggling, then life will decay faster and far from quality.

3. Learn from the stars who shine brightly in the darkness of night. We’ll know in order to be a stars we must dare to face the darkness of night. Dare to face the complex problem of our life.

4. Learning from the laws of the universe named “the law of attraction” . Thoughts and feelings will draw anything imaginable in the universe, according to its frequency. So if we are in happy then we’re appealing, or invite happiness. Conversely, if we are angry, indulgence in emotional, then we’re appealing emotions other emotions.

Thus, if today we are close and often get together with people who behave negatively, then we are actually negative. For, good people often just hanging out with good people, hanging out with criminals are criminals, the dead gathered with the dead, corrupt gathered with other criminals. Remember, anything as sweet oranges, but if the orange is in the middle of a pile of rotting garbage, then most people would guess that it was rotten oranges.

So, everything around us is a reflection of ourselves. Make us coloring the environment and not the environment coloring us, except when we were in a good environment already, then thank to God. And color further with the best color that we have.

Taken from “Motisakti” written by Zen el-Fuad

Your Career is In Your Hands

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish”

Steve Jobs, in a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005

Honestly, i don`t know that quote above until Apple announced that Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56. Some peoples has retweet that quote on the twitter and some peoples has update their facebook status with that quote. I really curious, what kind of that quote is ? So, i was in rush to googling what story behind of that quote and i went into this link :

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/steve-jobs-told-students-stay-hungry-stay-foolish/2011/10/05/gIQA1qVjOL_blog.html

(written by Valerie Strauss )

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Steve Jobs, the late Apple co-founder being called the Thomas Edison of his time, revealed in a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005 why he dropped out of college — and why he thought it was one of the best things he ever did. Yet he had other advice for the students.

Jobs, whose death at the age of 56 was announced Wednesday night, started that speech by telling about being adopted as a baby, and why, 17 years later, he attended Reed College in Oregon for only six months before dropping out. He said:

“My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: ‘We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?’

They said: ‘Of course.’

“My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

“And 17 years later I did go to college.

“But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

“It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.

“Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

“None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.”

At the end of the speech, his advice to the students went like this:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

“When I was young, there was an amazing publication called “The Whole Earth Catalog, “which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960’s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

“Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

“And I have always wished that for myself.

“And now, as you graduate to begin a new, I wish that for you.

“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”

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I really like this article, expecially when Jobs advice to the student.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Yes, i agree with Jobs. We can`t always living in someone else`s life, including our future. Everyone have a destination as their goal (maybe), so we can`t lying on their destination.

So, how could we get our independence and live as ourself ? Be Your Self. Do what you want to do. Do What you have passion on it.

If you are a network engineer, be an expert network engineer. If you are a photographer, do as an expert. If you are a car driver, do as an expert. Do as you want to do.

Somehow, i met a person that he didn`t know what he want to do. But, in other side, i saw he has a skill that he can`t realize it. So, i believe that God create a human with advantage and disavantage that he/she carried on.

..back to the topic..

In recent days, i have met with my old friends, either via instant messenger or email. Several of them asked me, how to escape from their stuck career and several of them just sharing their confusion, how`s life after their retirement (their company have done a lay-off programm), whereas as i know, they are a good employees with good skill on the past days.

One thing that i have get from their story: they are really not prepare anything for their future and skill.

For example, i have a friend that he have good skill with Time Division Multiplexing network and he always keep in his mind that the company still need him with his skill. When several devices migrated into IP base, he don`t want to touch the devices and only want to keep with TDM network devices. So, now he is one of my friend that listed on lay-off programm from the company.

yes, the time always changes and this life sometime too cruel to be. So, be prepare for that. Keep learning and keep upgrade your skill. Only you that can changes your life, not anyone. Your career is in your hands, not in anyone else hands

So, Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

 

*this articles have been published on http://projectavatar.net also on 4 Desember 2011