You can have anything you want
… if you want it badly enough.
If you want to be a professor at a university, then you’ll do research there for 10 years until you get your professorship. If you want to buy a new computer with all the latest features, you’ll earn your own money, forgo nights out to save every penny, and get your computer. If you want to build a company, you’ll set up a company. If you fail, you’ll set up another one.
When you choose what you want, and you want it so badly, all of your actions become consistent with what you’re out to achieve.
However, you can’t change the past, you can’t change the minds of Google’s recruitment team and you can’t make a bus coming towards you stop just by wanting it to stop.
Unless you can time-travel, you can’t change the past. So what happened, happened. Get over it and move on. With recruitment, make yourself and your application so compelling that you give yourself the best chance for the job. Want to be a software engineer at Google? Code like crazy! Learn the tricks and immerse yourself in what you’re interested in, contribute to open source projects, do stuff for recognition, don’t do stuff for recognition, do stuff. Learn! Work on yourself to have what they want so they want to have you. Want to make a bus stop? Stick our your arm.
If you want something badly enough, you’ll get into action. Just don’t forget to have fun along the way!
March 31st, 2009 at 12:27 AM
“Want to make a bus stop? Stick our your arm”
Interesting strategy, I’ll try it out the next time I’m standing in the middle of a road
:)
On a more serious note, excellent blog post :)
April 1st, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Hey Mark,
Sure, have fun with that one. :) Just make sure you give the bus enough stopping space!
Thanks for commenting!
Marita