something funny i saw as someone's MSN nick:
' i wish my grass was emo - so that it would cut itself'
lol!
Anyway, i was just thinking about this saying 'Aim for the stars - for if you miss, at least you'll reach the clouds' , which means that we should set higher goals, so that if we cant reach them, we'll reach at least something quite good.
THIS DOESNT MAKE SENSE AT ALL.
Assuming we always try our best in whatever we do, what we can achieve should be determined by our innate (natural) ability, not by the target we set. A simple analogy would be a high jumper - how high he can jump (his maximum) is determined by how powerful his leg muscles are - not by what target he set. He can set as low as he wants, but if he is a good jumper, he will be able to hit a certain mark.
The target we set should not have any effect on our achievable level, probably only to spur us on more. But if we always try our best, then it wont matter what target we set! Because we will always achieve our maximum achievable level, which is raised by PRACTICE (i had a tirade on the saying 'practice makes perfect' once ) , not by setting high standards.
Then some people argue that setting higher standards spur us on more, hence we will achieve something better, and we will be able to get closer to our maximum achievable level than if we have a lower target set.
But the problem here is not about the target isn't it? It's about our attitude. It's our lazy procrastinating slothful nature that seemingly makes this false saying true. If we truly want to succeed in what we're doing, we will/should put in our 101% to do something, what our target is should not affect the outcome! It's only because if we set a lower target, the laziness makes us slacken and work less hard and hence we achieve something below the target or something and we believe in that stupid saying.
At this juncture, i shall bring in my own saying -
Don't aim so high, so that you will be pleasantly surprised more often
=D
Isn't this true ? I dont see any possible rebuttal.
If you are capable of achieving like let's say an A or something. Then you aim for a B. Then when you get an A won't you be like yay! i exceeded expectations =)
That's what many students today do isn't it? That's why so many idiots go to school the morning of the exam and boast about how little they've studied, and how they're screwed. I don't know why everyone loves to compete to see who've studied less.. 'oh i just read through abit' and stuff like that. They want to create the illusion for themselves that they're gonna score low marks, so that when they do better than that, they are pleasantly surprised.
That's what i did for Block Test 2 too. I really slacked and played alot, so i didn't want to hope for much. So i aimed for poor grades, liek average Cs or something. In the end come out B B C, so i happy la, better ma.
Thus, we shouldnt set high targets just to hope we will get something slightly lower than that and still be not bad. We should just give our 100% in whatever we do, and set lower targets (but work your hardest!) , so that when the results come , the chances of being happy are higher =D
whee.
