In the 20th
century the key to success in business, politics, law and other professions was
to dazzle everyone and smother the brightness of the opposition. It could be
called the century of illusions and it has landed the world in the mess that we
are faced with. In the 21st century let us base success on sustained
brilliance and only positive thinking. We have already wasted thirteen and a
half years, so we have to work swiftly to make up for the lost time.
Some time ago
I read a story about how five hundred participants of a seminar were asked to
sign their names each on a balloon and throw them in a room; then everyone was
asked to find the balloon with his name on it. Everyone rushed in and burst
most of the balloons. One or two lucky ones got the right balloon. The exercise was repeated with people going in
one by one and picking up the nearest balloon and finding its owner and giving
it to him. It worked and everyone got his balloon.
In real life
assets and ideas do not have names of the people who deserve them written on
them. But with a little commonsense we can tell whether what we have is
necessarily useful to us or not. If not, it should not be too difficult to find
someone who needs it. All you need to do is to post it somewhere or send emails
to those who you think would be glad to receive it.
