31 July, 2011

NGAJAR MENSIA NGINTI IKAN

Teach A Man To Fish
  • Teach yourself First not ‘fishing for mercy’.
  • Teach yourself to Fish.
  • Educate yourself to Fish.
  • Force yourself to Fish.
  • Empower yourself to Fish better.
  • Learn to Fish by yourself.
  • Study the Fish so you can catch it easier.
  • Learn to work as a team to catch more Fish.
  • Regroup your team of fishermen to explore the ocean to catch more Fish.
  • Don’t be the Fish in the pond that live on daily feeding, get out of it and explore the seas.
  • Be the Man who gives you the Fish, you’ll be at par and/or better than him.
  • Learn from others who can Fish better than us.
Notes:

Fish is not necessary “politics”.

Fish can be “Food”, “Knowledge”, “Technology”, “Innovation”, “Invention”, “Economics”, “Finance”, “Investment”, “Networking”, “Entrepreneurism”, “Business”, “Law”, “Opportunity”, “Possibility”, and others that is of primary important to you, your family and your community in uplifting your well being and/or standard of living.

F.I.S.H – “Find Initiative Sufficiently and Honestly” or “Finance, Investment, Security & Health” or other synonymous.

We All Know The Old Saying

“Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”.

The wisdom of the old saying that the world is best served by teaching a man to fish rather than giving him a fish to eat rings true down through the ages.

If an aid society, wishing to do the right thing, simply chooses to give food to starving people rather than teaching that same group of starving people how to fish or farm, damage is done that can take generations to fix. Are Dayaks belonged to “Aid Society”?

We have all heard this quote many times to justify many things. A cliché, perhaps, but it is nevertheless a timeless piece of wisdom. And we have all wondered why it didn’t work better than it seemed to.

I feel what is missing is desire, commitment and willingness to learn and/or explore outside the box.

The fisherman has to want to learn how to fish. If he doesn’t want to learn, he will stay hungry. It is part of the art of survival, art of progression and art of modernization.
  • Are “Sea Dayaks” not fishermen?
  • How have they survived all these years?
  • If they are “Sea Dayaks” why have they not going out into the sea and catch more Fish?
  • What make them live ‘inland’ rather than exploring the sea so they can Fish better?
  • Why “Non-Sea Dayaks” can Fish better than “Sea Dayaks”?
The fisherman has to effectively use what he/she is taught and experienced as well. If he/she doesn’t understand the instructions, or misuses the instructions, he/she still will be hungry and/or remain poor.

Maybe that explains why “80%” of Dayaks remain poor, backward and dead broke.

We all want fish, and if someone shows us how to fish, we still won’t really learn. After all, we are entitled to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. Are you?

But is poor, backwardness and/or dead broke what we really bargained for? Isn’t there more to living in Malaysia than just getting by?

All around us people are talking of the bad economy and the corrupt politics; government has no money, and believing it.

But people are still making money. People have always made money. Even during ‘The Depression’, people made money.

We have been indoctrinated ourselves in the “Societal Cultural Hypnotic Trance” and/or with “Problem of Personality, Rationality, Directionality, Communality and Affection” which has kept us from achieving the destiny we were meant to receive.

But there is a way to take control of our destiny. Many have developed systems to build teams and unity or ‘beserakup’, and ‘cooperation’, ‘collaboration’, ‘corporation’, ‘corporatization’ and/ or ‘conglomerate’, to generate income and to be come self-sufficient, self-efficient, self-reliance, self-independence, and inter-dependence.

The key word there is “self,” not “government,” not “entitlement”, but always “self” and “inter-dependence” (and inter-connectivity).

That is what the Dayaks enforced themselves to become “self-development”, “self-determination” and “self-governance” (men and women / rural and urban), and taking a new step and initiative to stand for what they believed in and building a system where it could flourish.

It was built on the desire to become educated and learn Fish, not the willingness to accept fish.

Lastly

You have a choice, learn to Fish or accept Fish.
  • If you accept the Fish, you have to accept that you are part of the “80%”.
  • If you learn to fish, you have the opportunity to be in the 20% and the rewards that come with it!
ARE YOU A FISH THAT NEED TO BE ‘SILVER-SPOON’?

Thank you.

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