What is your Dream?
February 11th, 2006 by 
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Loading ...In one of the webboards, we got into talking as to what is the American dream. Then somebody came in and said what was the European dream. Being Asian, I talked a little bit about the Asian dream.
This might be too generalizing a bit, and hardly accurate, but the American dream is usually meant to be understood as having great wealth and power. The European dream is normally about self fulfillment, education and respect from peers. I am more Asian, and has always been made to believe that the Asian dream is about leaving a good name, and making your children successful. In fact, a lot of Asian Entrepreneurship is about owning a small business that you can give to your children. The greatest accolade an Asian businessman can get is to be the founder, the honorary chairman, or the PATRIARCH of the numerously successful business of the next generation.
I have been fortunate to be influenced by many cultures, and I always say that I want the best of 3 worlds — so if you note my motto, “to be a learned scholar, a successful businessman, and a good father” it is really a global dream, a meeting of the east and west mentality.
I hope that I am not alone in this, about wanting my next generation, my children to succeed because I think that is the acid test of a man’s ( or woman’s) success. I remember a while back somebody did comment in one of my post that success outside cannot compensate for failure in the home, and I agree. More recently, this has also received a lot of attention, and winning companies, like GE and Intel make it a point that the greatest success criteria of a CEO is actually how well you groom the next CEO and how well he does after you have left. Having to go outside the company to get a CEO is normally looked at as a desperation move, and hardly a sign of management excellence.
To be successful, and passing on the success to others would be my goal, and hopefully yours too. Training the next in line or the next CEO thus becomes my greatest success factor and challenge. People might think this is too early ( my eldest is still barely going 11, but I figured I have 5 more years. After that, if I don’t have his trust, I’m a goner.). What do you think?
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February 11th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
“I may be a learned scholar, a successful businessman, or a good father and husband, but until I am all three, I have not succeeded.”
… well & good, but for me i’d make it four:
I may be a learned scholar, a successful businessman, or a good father and husband, but even if I am all three, I still have not succeeded, unless I realize and accept that there’s someone up there who really made all three possible.
February 11th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
“I may be a learned scholar, a successful businessman, or a good father and husband, but until I am all three, I have not succeeded.”
… well & good, but may i extend it a bit…
I may be a learned scholar, a successful businessman, or a good father and husband, but even if I am all three, I still have not succeeded, unless I realize and accept that there’s someone up there who really made all three possible.
February 12th, 2006 at 2:06 am
I am from the UK, and until a few years ago I used to believe in what my mother(my father died when I was very young) used to tell me in that I should strive to own my own house, work hard, marry a wife and have children and then and only then could I call myself a success.
However something changed in my a few years ago and I realised that I didn’t want the same kind of success that my mother used to tell me about.
Infact I realised that I didn’t actually want success if it meant that I had to live the same life as everyone had before me.
I didn’t want to be the same as everyone else and live a life of ignorance of what really goes on in this world.
To me success isn’t the same things my mother still believes in…
Success to me means no matter what in my life I should always seek the truth, the truth behind environment problems, the truth behind too many poor people in the world and only so few rich people.
To me if I seek the truth behind these things and many other things and continue to do so until I die, then and only then will I say that I have been a success.
I am not afraid of being different than other people if it means that I seek the truth behind everything I am told in life!
February 12th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
thanks for your comments.
I agree that to a certain extent, a success also means that you have a higher purpose in life, and acknowledge also the supreme creator.
As for Mike, I guess for all of us, success can be slightly different. Many people will say that if they have a million dollars, they are already a success!
February 13th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Even GOD has no power over man’s FREE WILL.
February 15th, 2006 at 4:52 am
My American dream is simply to be happy. To me this means spending as much time as possible with my family and friends, and being successful enough at work to allow that to happen.
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