Life is meaningful, only when one wishes to make it. We are creatures of time and we’ll wither away in it. The little moments of joy we find and create are all that will live with us.
I incidentally and very briefly meet Elon on a beach in Zanzibar, Tanzania at new year’s eve 2012 at a time when just a few people knew who he was!
The 10 points he makes now, really hit hard on the real deal in entrepreneurial life. The only other thing for Pakistan I’ll add is ‘manage perceptions’ for TRUST.
There is so much of mistrust in Pakistan that real signals and real deals get lost in the noise of people’s doubts and fictional concerns.
VALUE is my brand and it’s a product of validated authenticity not just the outer shine and glitter of a Mercedes Benz. The way Elon created VALUE. It really takes one to beak their knuckles doing that.
Enjoy a real innovators insight on what is real and what is not.
As a take away from this talk, I feel we should all make a major distinction between ‘Entrepreneurs’ and ‘Innovators’.
Most all of the role models for exceptional entrepreneurship today are basically ‘innovators/ inventors’.
They are never looking at the business (as per say) but simply at their passion to make a difference in their own way, with their skills and potential.
Also note when Bill talk about the major shift in the time when he made it big and now!
If God did not show us the marvels of creation and if we would not have so much tangibles around us to see – would we be marveled at creation ?
Senses are important because they are there for a purpose.
To see to hear to touch to smell to taste and to perceive are all those senses that enable us to connect with those around us.
They are there so that we may be able to form a sense of belief.
A lot of people in our world are not paying proper attention to the vitality of these senses for the purpose of people to people communications.
After all it is only communication that forms the pathways between people – from person to person.
A lot of the people in the world try to form these pathways without the comprehensive utility of these senses.
Some even perceive it to be materialism to emphasize upon the utility of senses.
Yet…
Presentation is extremely important.
It enables and evokes a verifiable sense of belief in the people for a proper connect.
Even the biblical prophets conducted marvels to evoke the sense of belief in people and well God has done it so much that we frankly take the celestial marvels for granted now.
Oh the sun shines so what !
Ha ha man can you put your mind around the process and nature of that creation of God hum !
If we are born with it does not mean it is not a marvel!
If you see and experience it day in and out does not mean it has less significance!
In essence senses are key to winning in life.
So the take away for today is…
Make ‘Presentation’ in every thing you do, say or even think … The hallmark of your identity and self.
I believe it’s the one true mantra to all success in this life.
How will you like the world where one dollar = one euro ?
There are signs that is coming soon – very soon.
As Euro has lost its peg against the Swiss Frank, it may just be that the two dominant global currencies Euro and Dollar will find parity and then perhaps move to peg as well!
That will certainly have far reaching effects on the economic outlook for the next coming decades.
Pakistan has a demonstrated capacity to work with the best in developed nations and contribute to a global economic ecosystem, in more remarkable ways than you perhaps can imagine.
An unprecedented influx of refugees have literally invaded Europe recently.
Coming mostly from the tense spots of the middle east region, these refugees are in younger age brackets with a lot of children and young couples.
My main inquisition is why is it that Europe is welcoming so many in such awkward ways.
Just recently a tiny village of 150 people in Netherlands called Oranje got a major shock when the government decided to place a refugee camp of 700+ people there.
It sounds exceptionally comical that the government would overlook such a major factor of native population and numbers.
This is going on all over Europe mostly in the developed and central regions.
I ask myself why is Europe accommodating so many refugees?
I feel it is all to do with the best answer to Europe’s biggest problem – Age!
Most of Europe is facing a natural degradation of its young population due to less families producing lesser children and most of its people expected to reach old age soon.
Without enough young, Europe faces a major shortage of labor for the next century.
Inviting all these migrants is Europe’s answer to that problem.
It may even make it more competitive as an economic region in this emerging multipolar world where China is giving US and Europe a very hard time.
Supply of cheap and capable labor is the next big economic agenda.
In a unipolar/ bipolar world where US had an undisputed lead, that was not much to be concerned about but now in this multipolar world with US, Europe & China as the market leading economies. This fact is paramount.
Europe is not going under the weight of competition but rather preparing to deploy the tried and tested formula used by US to catapult its economic might.
They have the technology lead, the financial lead and now with a managed supply of labor they will be competitive to use a mix of labor and automation to have a newly empowered economic lead in the new market region called Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
The next 50 years will define the shape of a new world in trade and commerce. New methods and new ways of execution.
I feel it’s an opportune time to benefit from this transformational regional transition.
Coca Cola has announced an investment of 350 million USD in Pakistan. They will open new plants and will provide new employments.
Mr. Ishaq Dar has welcomed this move.
While I personally like Coke and it’s products that are far better than Pepsi. I am not in favor or this development.
Coke is all about water. They need new and cheap supplies of water for their products. This 350 million is a leak in our water systems as Coke will use all it’s plants to produce more for regional export than it will for domestic consumption.
Mr. Dar, please see ahead in the future and add clauses in the agreement that validate a strong control over the use of the nature and type of water Coke will utilize for its products and that should be set against a reasonable limit for export quantities.
I hope you don’t want Pakistan to dry up while Coke makes gains with a mere 350 million USD invested.