A Difference of perceptions

Glass Half empty/Half full???

Well its known world-wide. A professor enters his classroom with a glass filled midway with water and asks the 100 odd students a simple question “what do you see?” Some answer “Glass half full” others “glass half empty” some try smart comments like “why no beer!” but the general response is agreed on “the glass is half full “ or “the glass is half empty.”

It is said that if you look at the glass as “half full” you have a positive approach to life. You see the good things the stuff that can be of some value etc. If you see the glass as “half empty” you have a negative approach. You see things that are missing and in general are a “party pooper.”

But I have a question.

Are the above the only 2 options? Is it that you only look at the glass as half full and be satisfied? Is it that if you see the glass as half empty you have not achieved anything?

Lets go to history.

From the time of the Greeks the thought of “world domination” is... well... dominant. “The sun does not set on the Roman empire” is famous (Of course same was true for the British as well). With the rise of trade it’s now the economic dominance that’s come to the forefront. I myself had (still do) already created my dream company and already had an “empire”. We all in our lives have done at least in dreams. That is the key word “DREAMS”.

Why would I be satisfied with something that is “HALF?” Do I not see the empty space which can be filled? Do I not want the glass to be “FULL?” can I in reality achieve my dream by having “half!”. NO

That’s the bottom line. Its all good and nice to say stuff cuz it sounds good and is the “Right thought” but I ask you do the people who come in “Forbes list of Billionaires” look at the glass “half?” Of course not! Do you only look at the glass as half empty? How can you ever go ahead if you do not see the base you have created?

Both of the thoughts are missing a key element. The element of “Building on what you have.” You must always strive to make your glass full.

The glass is to be seen as both “half full and half empty.”

Half Full because you must see whether what base you have is good enough. If you “choose” not to look at it then you fail to see whether your efforts have the “Potential” to bear fruit.

Half empty because you must see the space to grow, to build as without it you can never be able to have your “dream” in “Reality”.

Think about it.