I am watching Bangladesh and SA cricket match - Mortaza was so mad at himself for so long for failing to stop a ball surely going towards the boundary when SA was down 6 wickets for a score below 100. I thought hey its reasonable that he did not stop the ball, it was so hard, almost impossible to stop it. Freakishly, it reminded me of a question that my smart, hardworking 8th grade cousin asked when I went to India last time - why not take engineering track, there are so many engineering colleges and there are so many jobs for engineering graduates that I will get a very decent job.
If theres one thing that kills businesses and people its complacency, attitude and all those reasonable people. The business is going alright, why worry ? I will get an alright job, why worry ? Everything works this way, why should I worry ?
Its not that if you have a chalta attitude, you wont a decent tomorrow, you wont have customers for your business tomorrow or you wont survive if you are a reasonable person or you team will lose if you fail to stop one four. But you or your business would be killed over time because the world around you is constantly improving. I have had many businesses cases where complacency killed a product (BMCs flagship product ..) and excessive paranoia kept a company alive (Samsung CEO attitude).
So my answer to my cousin was its not like you wont get a job. Because of your attitude, you would be always complacent and because of that you would be always sliding downwards, if you are lucky in your life. I think that is what Chappel was trying to say to Tendulkar. I am not saying you are not great, I am saying you are not constantly improving. And progress wont happen with reasonable people - A Reasonable Person Adapts Themselves to Their Environment. An Unreasonable Person Endeavors to Adapt the Environment to Their Vision Therefore, All Progress Depends on Unreasonable People (and thanks to JD and JBS for introducing me to this quote).
Guess who won the match today and who got killed :)
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you say unreasonable people with a vision will succceed - but people who have a vision will never be unreasonable. :P
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