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28 January, 2011

The Mind of The Teenagers Today!

I watched a News program produced in Hong Kong, interviewing two successful persons today and their views on today's young people's view towards work and opportunity. Both of them, almost of same opinion that, they prefer to be born in today's Hong Kong as the economy are much bigger and opportunities are much more today versus the ninety seventies in Hong Kong. Then, it's about the mindset of the teenagers today that their level of endurance of work challenges are much less than before, and even assisted by their parents. There seems only a few youngsters who have the right mindset and are willing to endure pressure and willing to work harder in order to achieve more than their peers fellows.

Reflected on above, I was looking back at my work life as well as a few of my fellow friends and classmates. Indeed there are opportunities that we faced (during the eighties and nineties) which are no longer there, e.g. the open-door of China and our ability to bring in latest technology and products to mainland China. Meantime, it's almost indisputable that at the time, any person like myself, seems don't know "how to complain". We basically worked and worked, and for both the solution and the results, the goals. We seldom stopped and looked around of us and complained (and delayed our actions).

In my occasion, I tried to engage young people in order to get a better feeling of their mindset. They obvious grow up in a different environment, basically more comfort than what we had during our time. It's not that they cannot endure work challenges, or that they easily complain. It's mostly their mindset is developed with a different social background than ours. They have also witnessed success without paying much effort, e.g. in financial and investment fields.

Life (and work is part of the life) is full of challenges and pain and sufferings, and it also contains rewards and happiness. Main thing is to walk through it and enjoy it while you can. Endurance of pain  can train and grow you stronger. We shall not purposely avoid pain, but when pain comes, let it educate us and teach our body how to accept it.

(*This photo is taken by Edward.)
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2 comments:

  1. Raymond28 January, 2011 23:57

    Values are also important. Young people today have fairly different set of values than people growing up in the seventies.

    And you are right on in saying that generally they complained more. Now if complaints are constructive and taken in the proper perspective, I encourage it. But complaint without a solution merely serve as an excuse to delay or even avoid actions. That's the kind of values a lot of young people have these days. They complained, but they don't grow and learn as much, and use that as an excuse to inaction!

    Last but not least, let you and I be comforted in the fact that we both do not possess as much wealth as some people do, and we don't have 4 wives!

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  2. Matthew29 January, 2011 11:06

    Can't agree more! And thank you for your continuous love and care.

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