Theory of Glass of Water

What would you describe "WATER'?

Okie, how about you are assigned to accomplish 2 missions as below:-

Mission 1:-
There is an empty glass placed on a table, and a jug of water placed just besides the glass.

Your mission is: You are required to fill the empty glass with the jug of water that prepared on the table, amount of the water is not limited.

So, how much water would you pour into the empty glass?

Mission 1: How much water would you pour into the empty glass?

Mission 2:-
So, you had made up your mind on the amount of the water that you wanted to fill into the empty glass, and you had filled it up.

Your mission now is: You are required to fill in the remaining water from the jug of water into the same glass. Hence, you are required to pour out the water from the glass you had just filled before fill it up again.

So, how much water would you willing to pour out from the glass before adding in the remaining from the jug?

Mission 2: How much water you willing to pour out from the glass you filled just now?

Do you know what is the aim of these two missions?
What did you learnt then?
Well, it's just a projection of the real-life situation.

In Mission 1, the empty glass actually represents an individual who knows nothing, and the jug of water represents the hunger of knowledge or desires to exposure this individual possessed. After the glass filled with water, the remaining unfilled space basically represents the room for the individual to grow.

In Mission 2, the filled glass represents the knowledge you gained through the experiences. So now, the question is: Are you willing to pour out the water from the filled glass and refill it with water again? Which this actually implies the question of "Are you willing to empty your mind again before crave for new knowledge?"

Try to think in this way:-

• Are you willing to give up everything you have now and start all over again?
• Would you open your heart to accept the opinions from others?
• Would you set yourself free from expectation or assumptions before trying something new?
• How much sacrifices you willing to make in order to achieve your goal?
• Are you flexible enough to adapt into different circumstances?
• etc..

So, by adopting the lesson of water into our real life scenarios, as below:-

Scenario:

"RT is a Senior Consultant in a company, and have serviced for more than 2years. Throughout the 2years services, she is the Top 3 performers in the company, she was given a lot of opportunity to involve in charity management, account management, client management and people management. However, she is well-aware that what she is currently doing basically just wouldn't helps much in the professionalism development she dreamt for in the industry, and there are not much rooms for the career growth in this company, if she wants to go further in this path"

"Now, she has an offer on hand with a reasonable salary package from a MNC company, but she has to start and build her career all over again, which is back to the junior consultant role and prove to new employer of her capability again. But on the other hand, she is already well-established in her current company. She is basically in the team lead list and she knew that she is gonna promoted to be team lead officially in 2months time." 

So, tell me, what would you do  if you are RT. Would you let go everything - sales record, title, knowledge, clients, reputation, client and candidate database - that you have built throughout the 2years in the company and restart and reestablish the reputation from zero again in new company?

The above scenario is just a small portion from our real-life. There are a lot more real-life scenarios happened 24/7 and 365 around the world. I believe, yourself, do experience this kind of dilemma..

So, ask yourself today: "Am I willing to empty my glass of water?"