Saturday, August 9, 2008

And the Admiration Awards goes toooo......

BEYONCEEEE!!!!!!!!
This is not an article about Beyoncé , there are already several out there on the subject. What I admire about Beyonce is not her fame, albeit it has contributed to me knowing about her, nor is it how much she's worth though that raises eyebrows, but the hard work she puts into her work, her talent, her personality and her who-she-is. This is what I've learned from her and people like her (so to speak): The Williams Sisters, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson etc...I noticed all these people have determined what they like and want out of life and have put everything into motion to realize their dreams. All these people have to sacrifice in order to reach their goal, whether it's by training the bodies (physical, vocal chords, tours, games etc...) several times per day most likely with a coach even if they are already the best. I admire their humility as being coached or trained by someone else requires the ability to accept criticism and the determination to improve. Those people have stopped dreaming and started working towards and finally living the dream sometimes at levels unexpected.
A common root of successful people is that they're doing exactly what they enjoy. Thank God we're living in a culture where such thing is actually possible. However, the difficulty with the hoi polloi is identifying what it is that makes them happy. And as I was listening to an audio book this morning the author mentioned that if you don't know what makes you happy, ask questions, either to yourself or the people who know you the best and then quoted Buddha: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought" -- As the author pointed out, thought or thinking is the essence of creation (a theory inspired by quantum physics although known and revealed by the Bible in Genesis and the Koran centuries ago).
Of course if Thought was all there is to success (regardless of one's definition of it), we will all be successful creatures. And this is where comes affirmative action. Thinking, acting and working towards that ultimate goal that we set for our lives. I remember an acquaintance who used (and maybe still does) to share his dreams of creating a start up, he would talk about it to whoever wanted to lend him a pair of ears ignoring Walt Disney astute advice: "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Beyoncé understood it, so did the Williams Sisters, Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson and several others.

2 comments:

Patrick Jean-Baptiste said...

Come on, P. Entertainers?
Entertainers are irrelevant/useless in terms of societal contributions. Anyone from the two links below would do. Success is not measured by the amount of things one has accumulated but by lives affected in a deep and lasting way.

How about admiring high intellectual achievements rather than these superficial performers, who are nothing more than perfected monkeys at the circus?


http://www.dlmark.net/hundred.htm
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/physics/physics-peeps.html

Tresor De Beaute said...

I mention people those people, first because they're well known even from the average Joe. If life/success was only about things, people like Heath Ledger would still be around us. It's their determination and dedication in what they're doing that is appealing. I'm not an entertainer and I'll probably never be one, but that doesn't hinder me from admiring them and telling myself "I must show the same zest for my work." Another reason I've picked them, it's because we're all GenYers. Now, as far their uselessness whether it's in terms of societal contributions or other domains, I believe the only useless people on this earth are the ones who not only are engaged in the destruction of the self but other people's as well. And I bet ya, A. Einstein was listening to the Beyonce of his time when he came up with his famous Theory of Relativity.

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