Dejavu. That word took quite a while to come out from my brain. It has been stored inside my medula oblongata for quite a while. Oh my goodness. Here comes all the Form Four Biology term. Since now the company has decided to throw in another new guy to join the testing, I have the duty... to take him around Hong Kong.
I remember a story about a sifu mechanic who has a disciple under him. Those day if you are a newbie, you'll spend 2-3 years tighten the bolt and nut before the sifu mechanic thinks you are experience enough to dismantle the engine. To the sifu mechanic, this 2 to 3 years is used to gauge whether his disciple's character, attitude and loyalty. In his mind, what's the use of teaching someone who has the ill-intention to leave the shop once he has mastered all the skill from his sifu and worse still, his disciple open a shop just opposite the sifu's shop.
My Hong Kong colleague told me that Chinese people often practise the attitude of reservation in passing down knowledge. That's what separate Chinese and Japanese according to him. Japanese will sit down in one dining table sharing their views on certain idea while the others offer their invaluable opinion. From here, they share knowledge, expand idea and come out with new invention. Chinese on the order hand tend to keep their highest skill (bi sha jie) to himself because of the fear that people around him learn it, improvise it and then turn on them. That is why, most of the knowledge go down to drain when one passed away. Come on. You think you write some script and pass to your son and ask him to understand your ugly drawing or writing without you guiding him and then you go to heaven, you children can master it 100%?
When I was in my university days, me too encountered this ancient philosophy practice. I do my homework. My coursemate borrowed my homework (I was trying to practise the Japanese ideology of sharing knowledge), furnished it with better hand writing and and a few bombastic words and then improvised it further by referring another coursemate's homework. In the end, I'm sure you know the result right? I got lower mark than them. Reason being the lecturer will think the one with bad handwriting must be the one who copied the homework hastily and missed out certain sentences.
However, on my final year, I attended a talk by this Dr. Gue See Siew. A famous local geotechnical engineer. In his speech, he told everyone that he published all his study and finding in the Internet. Some same field competitor asked whether he scared of his knowledge being learned by others. He came up with this theory of his.
Everyday, a new good book is being kept in the library. But the library is closed for the public. After 50 years, the library is filled with all the priceless books talking on all sort topics. One fine day, fire struck the library. All the books are burnt. Because it's closed to public, no one has actually read or learned anything from there. Is it such a pity that all these books can't be shared to others who might make good use of it? Then, he drew the comparison of the "books" as the knowledge we've learned, "library" as our brain, "closed library" as our reluctance to share the knowledge, and the "fire" as death. It's a sin to do that according to him.
From there onwards, it does hit me in the head that you can't progress if you don't share your knowledge. Reason being you will always stay in the comfort zone and never move one gear up. Only when you share, you will see that someone has known your theory and he/she might think of something new. Life is like that, he/she might embark on this ancient Chinese mindset again of improvise it and turn it on you. But fear not, ain't no mountain high enough. You will find another way that is even better and this is how you improve. On top of that, you'll learn what type of person he/she is too then. He/she is a tiger is pig skin waiting to pound on you.
In the end, if everyone practises this Japanese concept and don't look back in anger, you won't find this working world as a place for battle of wits.............
at least not today....
Admission fees: Free or recommended Exhibition Hall + Po Lin Monastery vegetarian lunch ($60 HKD)
I remember a story about a sifu mechanic who has a disciple under him. Those day if you are a newbie, you'll spend 2-3 years tighten the bolt and nut before the sifu mechanic thinks you are experience enough to dismantle the engine. To the sifu mechanic, this 2 to 3 years is used to gauge whether his disciple's character, attitude and loyalty. In his mind, what's the use of teaching someone who has the ill-intention to leave the shop once he has mastered all the skill from his sifu and worse still, his disciple open a shop just opposite the sifu's shop.
My Hong Kong colleague told me that Chinese people often practise the attitude of reservation in passing down knowledge. That's what separate Chinese and Japanese according to him. Japanese will sit down in one dining table sharing their views on certain idea while the others offer their invaluable opinion. From here, they share knowledge, expand idea and come out with new invention. Chinese on the order hand tend to keep their highest skill (bi sha jie) to himself because of the fear that people around him learn it, improvise it and then turn on them. That is why, most of the knowledge go down to drain when one passed away. Come on. You think you write some script and pass to your son and ask him to understand your ugly drawing or writing without you guiding him and then you go to heaven, you children can master it 100%?
When I was in my university days, me too encountered this ancient philosophy practice. I do my homework. My coursemate borrowed my homework (I was trying to practise the Japanese ideology of sharing knowledge), furnished it with better hand writing and and a few bombastic words and then improvised it further by referring another coursemate's homework. In the end, I'm sure you know the result right? I got lower mark than them. Reason being the lecturer will think the one with bad handwriting must be the one who copied the homework hastily and missed out certain sentences.Moral of this story: Learn to write better.
However, on my final year, I attended a talk by this Dr. Gue See Siew. A famous local geotechnical engineer. In his speech, he told everyone that he published all his study and finding in the Internet. Some same field competitor asked whether he scared of his knowledge being learned by others. He came up with this theory of his.
Everyday, a new good book is being kept in the library. But the library is closed for the public. After 50 years, the library is filled with all the priceless books talking on all sort topics. One fine day, fire struck the library. All the books are burnt. Because it's closed to public, no one has actually read or learned anything from there. Is it such a pity that all these books can't be shared to others who might make good use of it? Then, he drew the comparison of the "books" as the knowledge we've learned, "library" as our brain, "closed library" as our reluctance to share the knowledge, and the "fire" as death. It's a sin to do that according to him.
From there onwards, it does hit me in the head that you can't progress if you don't share your knowledge. Reason being you will always stay in the comfort zone and never move one gear up. Only when you share, you will see that someone has known your theory and he/she might think of something new. Life is like that, he/she might embark on this ancient Chinese mindset again of improvise it and turn it on you. But fear not, ain't no mountain high enough. You will find another way that is even better and this is how you improve. On top of that, you'll learn what type of person he/she is too then. He/she is a tiger is pig skin waiting to pound on you.In the end, if everyone practises this Japanese concept and don't look back in anger, you won't find this working world as a place for battle of wits.............
at least not today....
Location: Tian Tan Big Buddha
How to get there: Tung Chung MTR Station then Ngong Ping Cable Car ($96HKD - return) or New Lantau Bus 23 ($17.2 HKD one way)Admission fees: Free or recommended Exhibition Hall + Po Lin Monastery vegetarian lunch ($60 HKD)
4 comments:
agree on the sharing knowledge part
agreed.
Everyone agreed also no use. out of 100 only 2 agreed. How many people will think like that in such a competitive world where people who is on top is the one who knocks off all his competitors.
how do u know its out of 100? maybe it's out of 5 leh... lol.
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