Nay Zin Latt - A good person or a bad person?

The saying “Chinlekt Patmyar Rau” once referred to the fact that the mountain people were too honest to appreciate their value. It is a symbol of “honor” and is worthy of praise, but today, there are many people who doubt honesty and do not value it. If we do not accept that everything has its own value and worth, no matter how valuable it is, it will remain like “a fool’s hand”. It is true that everything has its own value. We just need to learn to take it and hold it.

Everything that has value includes not only materials but also experience, knowledge, ideas, insight, and wisdom. For the young people who spend their days sitting at roadside tea shops complaining that they need a lot of money to be successful, I would like to read about the richest people in the world, Microsoft and Bill Gates. You will see the hard work that went into combining their wisdom and experience without much capital and working hard for many sleepless nights. Capital is needed everywhere. That capital is not just money. The world is built on compromise.

It can be seen that financial capital is only a small part of the capital, and for the richer, “knowledge” and “knowledgeable” capital are the main ones. In Myanmar, the services of the bank are not yet sufficiently developed, while in other developed countries, everyone can get the support of the bank. It is not as if you just ask for it for free. When submitting a project proposal, the officials consider how feasible it is and how much it can be developed. The amount of support from the bank varies from manual labor to knowledge-based capital.

If education is not the main thing, if education is not the main thing, no one will call today's world an era of education. When it comes to education, is it necessary to learn the knowledge in the classroom to become a doctor? In the time of Mahatma Gandhi, MBA did not yet exist. There was no Ph.D. either. The basic education was taught in 18 subjects. By teaching subjects in a proper classroom, you will basically get the ideas and concepts that are deeply rooted in various religions. The wise who pass through the educated tend to be more brilliant. If you graduate to be educated, you can conclude that you are more "self-sufficient". There are some talented people who become educated without having access to basic education, but most of them are not talented people, so they need to be graduated first.

Even in the classroom, graduates who have been educated in backward and substandard education should be aware that they are inferior to graduates who have not yet graduated. The fact that the United States has changed its curriculum every two or three years and improved its teaching skills in line with the times, and has become a leading world country, shows the value of education.

Even outside literature that is not included in the curriculum is valuable if you know how to read it. If you read it for fun, you will not be any different from those who do not read it. There is value in all kinds of literature. Some people read. Some people read poorly. Readers do not understand the information and do not apply it in practice. They usually have little direct application and have to adapt it cleverly by combining it with their own experience. Compromise. The knowledge that “you must act accordingly” is a kind of “knowing”. Without considering all aspects, without expecting the consequences that will happen, they follow the theory and the text as it is.

If you do, you will only be a "knower." You are only a "knower," not a knower. You are not someone who can gain any value.

Experience is also valuable if you can keep it. It is good to gain experience by doing it in practice, but if you only take extensive experience in practice, you will not be able to finish it even if you have many lives. You will never be able to get the “personal” experiences of the fifty-year-old class, and the “thirty” age will never be able to “personally” get them. If you can take it from the advice of the elders, by expecting and preparing, you can get it even at a young age. You just need to learn how to take it. If you can take it, it is valuable. For those who can take the “experience” and “ideas” of the elders with the words of the elders, they will become a person who can wisely correct the proverb that time cannot be stopped. They will not only be able to stop time, but also increase their ability to stretch time.

Ideas and concepts often arise differently from one person to another, depending on the life they have experienced and lived. Except for those who are extreme, everyone has the ability to distinguish between truth and error in their minds. Young people can gather “mature” ideas and concepts by discussing them with “older people” without having to spend time searching for them, but by passing them on. Everyone has acquired the knowledge, thoughts, and experiences they deserve by the time they reach the age of fifty. If they acquire them at that age, there is nothing special about them. A person who acquires them ten years earlier can be considered to be ten years ahead of others and can be described as more capable. They can also be praised as someone who has fully acquired the “value of time and value of knowledge.”

It is a good sign that young people are taking courses today for knowledge and experience. It is seen that they can present certificates from various courses when applying for jobs, but they are not able to use them professionally in practical work. It is sad to see that they are not able to do it properly in practice. It is like a big fish that is not good at fishing. When you are young, you should specialize and specialize in a subject, and gradually become a leader with experience and age. Specialists are only responsible for one business, and they are only responsible for the application of expertise. When you are a leader, you have to have a multi-dimensional view in order to succeed while properly guiding the sub-businesses and taking into account the future, so you must necessarily go towards generalization.

In today's globalization, where communication, transportation, and information exchange have become a global village, vision is also of great value. A person without vision is successful today.

But there is no guarantee that it will continue to be successful tomorrow. Bill Gates, who foresaw the importance of computers and the inevitable use of computers in every office, founded Microsoft with the vision that there should be a computer on every desk. Bill Gates, who was able to foresee this, experienced the results of his vision and hard work as the richest man in the world.

Everything is ‘valued if you can keep it’, but you need to be able to see. That is why a writer and journalist once wrote, ‘He who sees sees.’ But there are many people who see but do not see. As the object of the eye, those who see cannot know the true value. Only through the eyes can the true value be obtained. How diligently and effectively one works gives additional values. Those who do not have vision often have a future, but those who have vision often have a future. Even if those who have vision do not achieve great things, they are not always able to cope with the situation.

Today's modern era is no longer a time to think and build a life according to the old ways. It is an era that is meaningful only when the important knowledge, views, and experiences of a life are combined with awareness, filled with energy, and used. A person who thinks lightly for a day or two is nothing special, but by the time he reaches his twenties, he will be far behind those who think deeply and build a life. It is also an era where even if you try to regain your true consciousness for a while, it is impossible to catch up due to the conditions of the times.

Once upon a time in Myanmar history, a great king was touring the country and saw a poor man eating rice. He appreciated the incident. The lesson of feeding “pigs” rather than letting rice go to waste opened his eyes to the poor. The fact that the king valued even ordinary events and taught the people to use them systematically was one of the reasons why the country prospered. If even a “king” who could live could value things, then ordinary people who are in charge of their own lives today should value everything. In a seminar, I once discussed that rich people work more. It can be understood as valuing work and working more.

Once upon a time, a queen fell in love with a “short haired woman” for a moment, so she left the palace and married him, becoming a “short haired woman.” The queen did not change, but she was a king and a queen, and her value changed from that of a queen to that of a short haired woman. This is just an example to illustrate that everything has its value, but its value can vary depending on the recipient and the heir. You just need to know how to set a value and how to evaluate its true value.