In all words, work hard and work smart is the most fundalmental way to achieve success.

how "successful"?

See....that's what i say not friendly manner. It is like you are challenging him. Dreamer has lots more experience than you (although i dont know him personally) and you are young without concrete prove of success, so, why not lie low, and respect the seniors. Perhaps, they can put $$$ in your pocket which you may not know.  Cheers and Cool..

I had this manner in the first place but people don't appreciate. Chinese say "play the piano in front of a cow", which is useless, especially to Mr. Dreamer.

Any way, as said, those who know me well will know if what I'm succsesful or not.

debbieyss,

LOL.

We ALL KNOW how successful you are....  And, WE know your opinion of YOURSELF.

Dreamer

Tigerr,

To be more precise, work smart by UNDERSTANDING your own strength and weakness.

Dreamer

Folks,

So, the QUESTION is how can I efficiently and effectively achieve an understanding of myself??

I use Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and cross reference with my real life experience to verify my personality type.  It is VERY EFFECTIVE...

There are FREE TESTS available over the Internet.

Dreamer

Debbie brings up an interesting point of discussion. She IS successful in getting to her goal. You may see her as being unsuccessful because you are measuring her relatively to someone else, not her goals. I should really research further on this Pak Dollah but I honestly can't say he is successful if he is just a wayang kulit player. Others would beg to differ. Just what kind of success are we talking about here?

average people are not rich?wat ur gonna say next?d earth is round not flat?

Dreamer may have lots of admirers in lowyat.net but I do not care; I value one person's teaching NOT by how successful he is in material or monetary.

Before I follow and absorb one's teaching, I value his personality and attitude, then only his material achievements in life.

Folks,

Average people are not rich.  Rich people are not average.

In I-Ching aka book of change, there is no good or bad.  Every strength become weakness under certain environment.  Ditto on weakness.  World / environment are dynamic.  Changes are constant.

From "Art of War" by Sun Tzu, know your own strength and weakness, half of the battle is won.

The KEY to career planning is to know WHAT you are?? What are your own strength and weakness?? What kind of career and environment allow you to be ABOVE AVERAGE?? What can you do that is EASY for you but HARD for others?? Conversely, if you are in an environment that DOES NOT FIT your personality and temperament, you could work very hard but you will not go anywhere.  The best that you can be is AVERAGE in that career.

Most of times, people ask THE WRONG QUESTION!!!

If you ask the WRONG QUESTION, you will NEVER get the RIGHT ANSWER!!

You could be successful in ANY career / business as long as you can EXCEL and ABOVE AVERAGE in that career / business.

To do that, you need 3 things:

1) Motivation -> You LOVE that area.  Then, you could INVEST the extra 10,000 hours to be VERY GOOD in that area.

2) Talent / Temperament -> You are born to be better than average people in doing this kind of stuff.

3) Environment / Industry -> You are working in a country / environment / culture / industry that appreciate YOUR STRENGTH and would not mind your weakness so much.

Do not follow the herd of cows.. Cows get slaughtered.  They just go into any hot areas that pays well.  They do not ask and care whether they could be ABOVE AVERAGE in that area.  That is what AVERAGE people do.

Find out WHAT you are.  INVEST on yourself to be VERY GOOD in the area that YOUR STRENGTH will be appreciated.

Dreamer

Dreamer may have lots of admirers in lowyat.net but I do not care; I value one person's teaching NOT by how successful he is in material or monetary.

Before I follow and absorb one's teaching, I value his personality and attitude, then only his material achievements in life.

If you need to value someone's personality and attitude before listening to what his teaching, then I guess it's very hard for you to learn something or anything..

Have you not seen sports theme movies where in the beginning of the story the person or the team is the worst in the field then come one coach with worst attitude you can imagine then transfrom the person or the team from the worst to the best? Do you think whoever comes up with that idea made up the concept..that is how real life learning is..

1) Motivation -> You LOVE that area.  Then, you could INVEST the extra 10,000 hours to be VERY GOOD in that area.

2) Talent / Temperament -> You are born to be better than average people in doing this kind of stuff.

3) Environment / Industry -> You are working in a country / environment / culture / industry that appreciate YOUR STRENGTH and would not mind your weakness so much.

Dreamer

Thank You Mr. Obvious 

That is movie lar. they can write the script as they like and may not truely reflect the actual. But, it does happen in real life and in fact, anything else also possible to happen.

In old days, a stern teacher is likely to produce a more disiplin student. But student nowadays dont follow this pattern anymore, so, in order to successful teaching the students, we need to change the way of teaching. If we dont change ourselves, we will never or hard to progress far....