The Story about Learning Kongfu

Aron and me were discussing this movie about a young guy went to an old karate master to pursue karate practices. The young guy wasn't taught any karate but asked to wash cars and do other physical work for 10 years before the master started to teach him the real martial art. After 10 years of cleaning work, the young guy realized that a lot of moves he had to make are the same as the karate moves (e.g. clearning the car windows). He was learning karate through those cleaning work. His determination of learning karate was tested through 10 years of boring work. (Btw, this story itself sounds very Zen.)

This out of sudden reminded me of my current job. My work is mostly about executing communication campaigns according to the agreement reached between Elux and our advertising agency. In (the cruel) reality, executing advertisement or organizing events to launch products is not as exciting and fun as most people think. I keep on wishing that I can be involved more in the creative concept development. Meanwhile, I haven't shown much enthusiasm in my day to day execution work.

Now I got enlightened by connecting with this movie: First of all, my willingness to learn more in the marketing area needs to be proved through my eagerness to excel in my current role. Then of course, I should try to grasp whatever I can learn through the detailed work I am dealing with. After all, successful marketing is all up to execution and the timing of execution.

Indeed, it is a painful adjustment to join a company from the bottom level after coming out of AI. Nevertheless, I came out of AIESEC to learn. And there is enough to learn!