Instead of asking "where can I find my 4-leaf clover?", I recently realize the positive thinking of "sowing the seed for my 4-leaf clover".
I read an article from the local BusinessWeekly magazine. The fabled story described a King was looking for the 4-leaf clover. He then asked three of his best knights to get it for him.
The first two set sail fast, and worked hard on "finding" it, on the mountain, in the forest. On their way they kept asking people "where can I find it?", and of course, most people told them to give up because it's just too difficult. They felt upset about the reality and believed that the King was picking on them.
The third one did the same thing in the beginning. However one difference he made is to listen carefully from the people about the "conditions/criteria" which help grow the 4-leaf clover. Although the chance of actually growing one is low, he decided instead of giving up, he should at least try to sow the seed.
All of them failed. But the King rewarded third knight eventually.
On the next edition of the magazine, the titled article was about one poor hard-working student who aggressively asked for part-time job in Mckinsey Taiwan, which they do not even hire part-timers. 5 years later, 2004, this part-timer's own company, which design Java application for handsets, became a multi-million dollar enterprise. On the day of his company merging with his Japanese counterpart, he was in the hospital, with his handset, laptop, and other seeds he is about to sow.....
(zh-tw)其實工作的因緣很奇特, “因”就好像種下的種子, “緣”就是成長發展的路徑. 而未來的結果因人而異. 如果自己能積極去播種, 去拓緣, 就能在不經意之間, 看到幸運草!
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