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Brains or Money

Thursday 3rd July, 2003 1 Comment

Referring to PaulZag’s blog entry Brains or Money

So, if ‘A’ students go on to work for ‘C’ students and ‘B’ students go on to work for the government, yet I tend to be quite inconsistent with my results (get As in some subjects that I really enjoy and Cs or worse in others that I think are a complete waste of space)… then am I actually doing myself a financial disservice by persuing those areas which I enjoy and thus do well at ?

Should I actually be persuing those areas which I can comprehend and thus pass an exam about, but don’t actually enjoy, so don’t do well at in school ?

mmm… I’m sure this bit of reverse psychology wasn’t the intended outcome of that statement – maybe I’m just a little screwey :)

Actually I think it’s more an attitude thing. People who do consistently well with everything they do tend to have an attitude that they MUST do well, and work hard as a result. These types of people tend to be quite compliant in their behaviour and will generally go along with what is expected of them – and thus will make model employees.

I tend to be more emotion driven about stuff – if I enjoy it and see the benefits of doing it, then I will do well at it. For everything else it is a real struggle to motivate myself to put the effort in. Some people call this an attitude problem. I call it looking for meaning in life.

So I think I am probably better off sticking with the things I enjoy and staying clear of the areas where I am forced to do things I don’t think should be done. Where there are things I’m not good at, I should delegate them if it is important. Where there are things I am good at, I should delegate them if it is something I don’t need to be doing myself.

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