Wednesday, August 29, 2012

What's With Your Arrogance?

There is ups and downs in life.

You are not always at the top and you will fall to the bottom of the 'food chain' eventually if not now maybe later. You will experience your downs somehow somewhere. The thing about life is that it will always tests the ones who are arrogant by giving them the goodness in life first before dragging them down the road to the most horrifying place where they will realise that they are not the best and there are people who are better than them.

I have not always understood people who are arrogant and snobbish. I see no point of being such due to the fact that you will never know what the other persons are capable of. They might be better than you in one if not all aspects in life. There must be something that they are better than you. Therefore, being arrogant and snobbish is not the way.

You will have to teach yourselves to the humble and down-to-earth most of the time. Yes, I did not say all the time because there are circumstances in life where you do have to act snobbish and arrogant. When? You will know when to use it when the time comes.

I have one thing that I am not in favour of that is person who is acting like they know everything but in fact they do not even understand what they are talking about. Never had the guts to ask. Never had the intention to learn and never had the urge to be intellectual. This is what we call, in Malay language, as Bodoh Sombong. 'Bodoh' is Stupid and 'sombong' is snobbish. It means someone who do not know anything but acts as though he knows everything and do not have the guts to ask questions. In addition to that, they are very very arrogant.

Another type of arrogant is when the person is having so much fun and joy flattering their titles to others. For example, he had just become an important person to a company and little he know about the actual fact on running a company, he showed-off to everyone about his role in the company, for example, a Managing Director. There is no need to show-off your title when you just got it.

Apart from that, when you are involved or about to get involved in a business or you are dealing with experienced persons, you, as the new kid, must be humble. You are not allowed (the rule) to talk BIG! You are not allowed to show your attitude as though you know everything about business. You are dealing with persons who have years of experience, a degree in business and an experienced accountant. You possess no bragging rights whatsoever.

I called these new people who are getting themselves involved in business as 'chicks which had just came out from hatched eggs'. You are THAT new. Therefore, you did not have the bragging rights. What you have is the game card to impress these people. Impress them, catch their intention, make business, make money and then bragging rights will come in. Even with all that, arrogance will not bring you far.

STOP being so arrogant and STOP being snobbish. STOP being the person who allegedly 'knows it all'. Just STOP! You are not bringing any good to yourself or other people. You are just wasting your time!

Love,
Marl

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