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Peng's Blog. A Different Perspective
Welcome to Peng's Blog. Personal power is a choice we make internally.
| Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010 |
| Audacity's Worth |
| By Peiying Peng |
| Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010 11:06 |
| San Francisco MOMA just celebrated its 75th Anniversary. On that day, the museum is swamped with people. I, too, went.
I am no friend of modern art. While I have personally produced quite a bit of "modern art," for me, they require a lot less energy to produce. So going through the museum, I found myself criticizing a lot of the art pieces. While looking down on those artworks, I do know about quite a lot of the modern and contemporary artists and their works. Some of the artists' pieces have been sold for tens of millions and even hundreds of millions of dollars.
If there's a common theme that runs through the MOMA, it's audacity. The Mac dictionary defines audacity as: 1. The willingness to talk bold risks. 2. Rude or disrespectful behavior; impudence. Either definition fits, depending on how much you love or hate modern and contemporary art.
The artists who exhibit in MOMA stroke out boldly and made statements. In return, the world heard them, and rewarded them handsomely. There's something here we can pay attention to: audacity has its worth (and sometimes, a lot of worth), and are you up for it? |
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| Monday, Jan 18, 2010 |
| Pink Hair, All Eyes On Me |
| By Peiying Peng |
| Monday, Jan 18, 2010 01:44 |
| I got a pink wig last Christmas. Being mild-mannered, this wig might never have been seen other than on Halloween. So as a small challenge to myself, I wore it to a movie last Saturday.
Here's what happened... Everybody who walked passed me on the street was looking at me. Some pretend they weren't looking, some stared, some snickered, some talked among themselves. If you have ever been in a position of being looked at or judged, you will know it's not a comfortable feeling.
And this is just a wig, something I can always take off and tug away. What if you became someone who's big/famous/infamous/wealthy enough to cause controversy? What if what you've got cannot be so easily tugged away? What would you do? Will you be thriving on all the attention? Will you be shriveled away under the weight of people's comments? Or will you calmly continuing your path?
We are so easily swayed by others because we are social animals. To know how we react may help us to keep our own emotion in check.
Perhaps you have a pink wig you want to put on today? |
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| Wednesday, Dec 09, 2009 |
| "You don't know what you don't know" |
| By Peiying Peng |
| Wednesday, Dec 09, 2009 10:44 |
| Above sentence is borrowed from Landmark Education, Inc. It was made case in point today over my rumination over a hot topic--Health Care Reform (henceforth HCR). We are not going to discuss HCR here, but we are going to talk about what to do when "you don't know what you don't know."
I have been tracking friends' comments on Facebook on HCR. Opinions are pretty predictable since most of them are made by educated middleclass Americans. Yes, from both parties. But still (or maybe because of that), the spectrum of opinions is pretty predictable.
So what's that has to do with the post today? What got me thinking is that we, the educated middleclass, really won't know what others think because we just don't have those experiences. To offer our opinion is a very valid thing to do, but we can't say we know about the whole matter.
What? You say that you grew up poor (or rich), and you really know what you are talking about. Good for you. But just on this topic, right? There are other things you don't know, right?
The topic of today's post really applies to everything. "You don't know what you don't know." And you don't even know that you don't know. So what to do? Because "you don't know what you don't know," you can't read about it, you can't take a class on it, you can't even google or wiki it. It's like a blind spot that you don't know that it's there.
You can, however, get a coach, such as us (shameless self promotion here), and let the coach shine a light on your blind spot. It's also like letting us turn the mirror you are looking at just a bit. Suddenly you see what you didn't see before. And voila, once you know it's there, you can read about, take a class on it, google it, wiki it, and more so, do something about it. Or change. Case closed. Contact us. Today.
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| Saturday, Oct 31, 2009 |
| It's All About Perspective |
| By Peiying Peng |
| Saturday, Oct 31, 2009 01:48 |
| One of my favorite perennial topics is on perspective. Events and circumstances just ARE. There's nothing good or bad about them. It is through difference perspective people decide whether something is good or bad.
Let's look at the dollar as case in point. Since the financial downturn, there has been lots of rumors and speculation about the dollar. The dollar's value has been declining. Now is that good or bad? And why does that has anything to do with this blog? Well, if you have been saving in dollars for the last few years in hope for a European vacation; it's probably bad because your money does not go as far as it used to, since lodging, food and tickets all become more expensive. But if you are a real estate agent working with foreign investors, you might suddenly see a surge in your business, as foreign investors rush in to buy the now cheaper properties in the US.
This is, of course, dicing the micro and macro economy to some extreme simple concepts. But you get the idea. How you look at things will determine your state of being. Let me give you a simpler example. Let's say that right now, in autumn, two people are looking at the same tree. One is depressed about the falling leaves on the ground and the bare branches. The other is excited about the building up of nutrients of the leaves that foretells an awesome spring. Events and circumstances are like that tree. You don't get to choose the state of the tree. But you do get to choose who you want to be. You can be the one who's depressed, or you can be the one who's excited.
Which one do you choose? |
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