Sticking with the status quo
Posted on July 20, 2010 by Tom
Some people don’t have the confidence they can do things they haven’t learned or that they don’t know. They fear that the lack of proper guidance will ultimately make them fail at whatever it is they’re trying. The result? Nothing actually happens. They stick with the status quo.
Japan, 1946, the country was crushed by allied forces and had to be rebuild, some places even from the ground up. The same year the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation was founded by 25-year old Akio Morita. With money from his parents, 20 employees and working out of a former bomb shelter, things didn’t look too prosperous. But Akio defied conventional business methods, didn’t believe in fancy diploma’s, found new ways of creating and selling electronic consumer products. In 1958, the company was renamed to Sony.
Nobody likes to fail. We all want to have the perfect lives pictured in numerous books, magazines, television, movies,… Successful people are being portrayed as either a from ‘rags to riches story’ or ‘the boy that made all the right choices’. Nobody seems interested in knowing that some famous mediamogul founded 4 companies and had to borrow money from almost everyone before he got it right the fifth time. Or that famous actor that played in over twenty really horrible pictures before he got rediscovered. And don’t forget those techguys that just knew they had something good at their hands but struggled over a year to find funding.
Failure is a part of life and ignoring that fact could be the biggest failure of them all. Accepting the fact that you’re probably going to drop the bomb over some projects will at least get you moving forward, instead of keeping that precious status quo.
