The Hamster School Of Management
It can be said that everything you needed to know in life you learnt in kindergarten. “Don’t take what is not yours “and “Always tell the truth”.
Yet many people do not understand what you might consider to be perfectly clearly basic truths of life that are clearly understood and fully comprehended your four year old. That is to “Tell the truth” and “Not to take what is Not Yours”.
These are the simple basics of a happy and secure life. In most cases you learnt them by example- either by a close family member or another very important example in your life.
Many people you will meet in your travels may repeat simple phrases and slogans such as “Those that do not plan – plan to fail” or such truisms as “The job is not done until the tools (or paperwork) is either put away or finished.
Yet the amazing thing is that most of these same people do not comprehend simple truths that you as child learnt. It is amazing that even a hamster seems to know such things intuitively and instinctively.
How can this be? Why is it that apparently intelligent or in many cases non intelligent people cannot grasp these simple and apparent truisms.
The answer comes down to two factors. Firstly the examples these people saw in life whether it was from their home and family environment or other important role models.
It is most important that you set good role models in your parenting skills.
Secondly in life and in many job or power structures a person is promoted not to the station that he or she is best at or most competent but rather to the stage at which his terrible incompetence stops them and their progress up the ladder of life..
Think of it who is it that influenced you to good worthwhile habits in life. What is a family member, an uncle a neighbor? This person may have inadvertently set you on the good path. It is much better to learn from a good role model than have to overcome the mistakes that a poor role model will leave you to overcome
Secondly it should be understood that in life people do not stop at their level of competence. Organizations whether it is at your place of work, your church, school or non profit group tend to promote people until even after trouble begins. Organizational structure is such people are seldom trained for their jobs. They are thrust into a position that they are not trained for and bumble through. To make it worse their role model of choice is their previous poorly or untrained processor… This cycle of life goes on and on infinitum.
Winston Churchill said democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. The same can be said for role models in life. The same parallels can be said about the job site and parenting skills. It is amazing that there are not more homicides in the workplace among staff and management.
William Z. Piker
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March 3rd, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Do you think if one is a clerk in this life he/she will be again clerk in next life?
I have a friend that graduated from top-school and should be prestigious clerk , but she choosed different way in her life and motivated her position saying she feels as hamster in aquarium in offices.
She has proven to be good at building management and projects and in country life.She believes in reincarnation and suspects the High Power didn,t noticed her true value, she is upset may be also about even with her good diplomas she refused the way her father would like to see her to be.
What do you think about?
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Well, she can believe what she wants about reincarnation, but the facts seem to be that there are no past lives and no future lives, and that this one is the only one. Thus "my next life" is an excuse not to make the most of this one (as is the whole notion of fate or destiny…that one’s life is planned out ahead of time by some universal power).
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March 3rd, 2010 at 10:38 pm
according to her deeds in this life she will get in the next life.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 10:40 pm
there is no next life.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 10:42 pm
A skill once learned stays with us from life to life. However, the circumstances under which it will be practiced may change drastically from one socio/cultiral era to another. For instance, someone who studied accounting and was considered a great expert at it in Victorian England might have trouble with the computerized aspects of it if they reincarnated today.
"The High Power" as you call it has nothing to do with it. If she has a karmic predeliction towards accounting, it is HER choice whether or not to follow it in whatever life she goes into. She DID come into this life with a pre-arranged plan – as we ALL do – but SHE, herself, is the one who worked out and wrote that plan – again, like ALL of us. We come into life with a script for that life which we wrote ahead of time with the help of karmic advisors on "the other side", but we are still creatures of free will. As such, we can and often DO vary from the path of our own pre-written lifescripts.
Not to worry, though, when we do, there is always a "plan B" (yeah, sometimes even a "plan C", "plan D", etc.) that will still get us through it and still present us with the karmic lessons we were meant to study this time around. Possibly, she has simply gone to HER "plan B" this time around.
If she totally blows off her former training in clerical matters and goes into something else entirely, it will just give her one MORE skill to take with her into the future and leave her one skill better fixed for the next life and beyond.
By the way, a couple of those guys who answered ahead of me are going to be in for one heck of a big surprise when they finally "cash in their chips" and "buy the farm"!
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