Sánchez-Ocaña Alejandro Suárez. TIME-sector employer since 1998 CEO of the Group Publispain, the network of blogs Entertainment Networks SL and Leisure Blogs, Chairman of Inversora Foley, Director and Founding Partner of Yes.fm, advisor and investor in several companies in innovation, new technologies and internet.
Returning to the culture of Effort
He had little time writing in this blog. Not that take much doing it, only took a year and very little. But I remember they were a few days or weeks and in a post I wrote something related to the effort. I campion llvoieron some that left me somewhat confused.
I still remember a comment that is approved and cheerfully and said something nasty like this:
"It is not science fiction that possibility, it seems that what we want all the" young "is that, shit receivable (EUR thousand and little, hopefully) and off (does having a life, perhaps?), Also working as minimum ( "40 hours, perhaps, and never paid no extras?) But what are you going? Go back to the real world, your trabajao something almost no personal life (because being married to an aunt who see two hours a week and get the kid to the park is not to have life) and occasionally go out of Majadahonda. "
The comment was anonymous, signed "Maria" with a fake email and followed by a similar one from the same IP with another name, but not stopped publishing it, I very rarely comment on this modest blog. The reality is that even a year later I remember, is one of the comments that have been reported to have more fresh in the memory, I thought hard about it Mary, and I did not live in Majadahonda.
So when I said that to return from vacation I wanted to write about 20 words / concepts other than s, and I would take and do every Tuesday, this is the first and "effort" the first word that popped into my head.
Clearly, the effort for this girl and for me is different. I did not know, thought it was a universal word full of values in itself, without question, and I discovered surprised me to see that does not have to be this way and that there are other positions, respectable of course, but I do not share to the effort .
Therefore, I would like to explain something out loud. For my effort is the way they attempt to alleviate my weaknesses, because I am aware-and this is my only merit-that I have enormous weaknesses as a person and professional, and so on give it all is important for two reasons. The first is a matter of self-realization and motivation, if not I try, if I filled what I do and I find it simple, soft, and limiting myself to meet goals, I have no motivation and delegate this task. Do not know if it's right or not, but what I do. If there is no challenge there is no goal.
I am an extremely critical of myself and what I do. I also laurustuinus sometimes with others, true, and that's because I presume to be sharply critical and demanding with myself and I "skinning" at certain times in the mirror and find in it an extra motivating factor. I'm walking complacent.
Unfortunately I do not have enough capacity if I find other people, an aura that makes them intrinsic to achieve goals over and over again with ease. I have no quality that can make a difference to anyone, and my only way is to work and try harder. Yes, on occasion, as Maria says somewhat dismissively, as these periods devoted to try to give more push something has invaded my personal life, is a topic that as I meet more years, and have more family obligations, attempt to control and maintain some discipline.
With a simple analogy, when I look in the mirror I see that I am-not nearly-Usain Bol t, a guy who will run and win without messy, is generally always someone around to see if I think, always there is someone who will take me out 10 meters of difference in the finish line with ease. There is always someone who seems to have been born to the goal that I seek, and is always another person, a person that the only way to overcome or at least try to reach his level is the effort, work harder than him, knowing that They may not still get it.
We spent a few years when everything was too cheap even access to jobs and money.
People with salary of 1,000 Euros acquired 250,000 or 300,000 homes, now have to pay and that's going to have to work hard, if you were going to work a few weeks were at one with what was worthless endeavor, whether it was something stupid and now we are on track to incredible 20% of unemployment (as in cultures of effort and self-made man like the USA are shocked to have a 9%). If any good has this situation, it might at least put fashion , as it was at many points in our society, a culture of effort.
I love to see Bolt run, I enjoy it, is spectacular. It's the best. It has some innate qualities that are pure spectacle, something historic. But those who really admire is the three or four that are behind that have to literally "kill" to be at a level close, when Bolt runs at 90%, others manage to overcome to 110% in order to be close to knowing that even so, do not expire, nor will beat any record. They are truly the Dream Team, which inspire me most admired and trusted.
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Bravo! is all I can say, I felt totally identified with your reasoning.
Very good post Alejandro!, Now is a time for effort (much!) And we will be very useful to assess things as they deserve and learn so that in future we do not happen again.
Very good post Alejandro. Totally agree that the current situation may help to standardize some aspects like to discuss. As Fernando Trias de Bes says in his book "The man who changed his home by a tulip":
One advantage of the crisis is a recovery of the essential values. Reevaluate what is important: weather, calm, work, risk, money, savings, endeusarse caution.
By the way, totally recommended a book like "The black book of the entrepreneur"
Indeed, the effort has fallen from grace during these boom years. We attach great importance to education and insurance does, but the fact remains that the attitude is much more necessary than aptitude.
Even more painful is that we have always been a hard worker and a country used to earn a living. "I am Galician and tired of meeting people who a generation or two ago went out of Spain to make a living without a penny in his pocket and no longer without knowing the language of the country who were (English, German etc.). but without even knowing how to speak Spanish well, I testify that this is totally true.
This picture for example has only 50 years (http://www.laopinioncoruna.es/estaticos/domingo/20071028/imagenes/PAG-3.jpg) and reflects well what I say.
Work hard got us a reputation for working people and noble that we lost.
Now we really like to go out to practice, Erasmus etc., But no one lives here very well.
"If there is no challenge, no goal." I think people need that we are quite self-demanding, a challenge and internal motivator to help us strive always a little more.
I find it useful, to be fair to myself and not fall only on the self, to apply the famous "SWOT" (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) for the analysis is balanced and able to know my starting point and what my real chance of achieving what I set, and so "focused" effort in the right place.
I believe it is our generation that has lost the culture of our best effort and is recovering.
Our parents spent any real penalties in order to get where you are and it is possible that without the "personal life" citing "Maria".
Arrive each day I remember seeing my father at about 9 pm and leave home at 8 to pull out 6 children. That if it was effort PUSSY
We are fortunate not to have passed and now needs a crisis to the minimum than in other countries is the daily bread we complain.
For it was necessary to know its true value in a job.
I agree to the example of Bolt and his followers.
I've never set at 10 I prefer 7, 8 and 9 are required to reach 10.
Hello Alejandro,
excellent reflection. Only a small point. For a little over two years I read biographies of people who I think is interesting for several reasons and I can assure you that no success has come without effort.
What Usain Bolt easily wins is the fruit of hard work daily. Of course he has the natural instincts, but each day he works and strives to improve.
I recommend Playing for Keeps, about Michael Jordan and see what I mean.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary says a quote attributed to various authors.
Good article but one thing with which I disagree.
"For me, the effort is the way I try to overcome my weaknesses"
What I think is not fair to put in the hands of a free personal interpretation objective meaning (conceptual and academic) of a term.
That you use the effort to address weaknesses is another matter, which otherwise I totally agree.
On the other hand I would add that the effort has consequences "personal virtue". You value more work with everything else involved: you are most grateful, better manage time (yours and others) and you know best.
Good post!
The fact that we have to strive much to overcome this stage ... is still hard for me but as they say will chegado Galicia Os tempos! (or something similar) ... Everything happens, the only thing is to reflect on all this and continue to strive to be more professional and better person.
Strongly agree with what you say. But we must also bear in mind that we must strive to have a decent personal life, and these also need to eat. It is clear that if you produce less value to society unless you win. That's the rule base. We must guarantee minimum levels for those who want currar is right, then it also fair to charge no more and no less. But not wanting to have a life beyond work are lazy. They may strive to maintain their friendships, strive to take care of his family, and yet go to work with the attitude of least effort. It's a bit unfortunate that will not print the same passion in all areas, but for the majority Invensible work is a cross to be made, and that usually lasts from 8 to 8 (because let's face it, in Spain are overtime like hotcakes). Basically it's a matter of priorities.
In my case, I greatly appreciate the work, but because my personal life is a bit poor, or perhaps the reverse feed back ... sure ... the more work (for others and personal projects) less leisure time I have left, less time to hang out with friends and meet people (do not have networking friends) ... and at the end you're alone and you do nothing but work. If you are aware of it and it's your choice, go ahead. A passion for me since then I force myself to get something and have the satisfaction of having given everything but not get my goal. I think that attitude always compensate for the long term. But try to be aware not only of what I do, but also from what I have to do, what sacrifices it entails. You break friendships, couples do not have, in the family who do not care. You have to be minimal, and from there, give everything!
Great simile of Usain Bolt and the other runners.
Alejandro, I identify completely with your thinking.
Here in Argentina things are very hard for everybody, and while we intensify efforts very difficult to make ends meet and the truth is very frustrating.
Te mando un beso
Laura
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Complex issue, by George!
I am struck by the paradoxes. The post talks about the effort as a virtue and yet is illustrated with an emulator of Sisyphus, the effort meaningless and as a punishment.
To get something valuable in our effort we need to know enough to know which direction to push. Or at least experiment with intensity, trying to find our strength.
I think Bolt is a good illustration, and the effort of this man does nothing but enhance your natural, born to run. Bolt runs playing, but playing as a kid would do 3 years, without limitation or qualification, fully.
+1 For the good treatment of the critical
Bolt is killing a few short hours in training, hours of scientists in the analysis of their movements and hours of development of technology for their shoes ...
And those who are behind him, days before they were on top! or is that bolt has always been that fast???
I feel very identified. Sometimes I think we reached an old-school effort, the involvement and fight for something. Three values that were lost for about 7-8 years.
As you say, are values that have to go back, but not that new generations to believe in them, but because they need work. In this case we must be educators, our experience can be helpful to give them something beyond the economic.
I never fight for these values to make money. I did it to survive, to progress, evolve and get better myself.
But mostly, I did (and do) for myself and my wife and kids.
Maria: do not know if I spend 2 or 3 hours a day to mine. But I can assure you that when I do use all the intensity of my being and in my moments of solitude without them, the mere thought that through my efforts may have a present and a future, fills me with satisfaction and hope.
But in the end it is about being happy?
It scares me a little speech on the efforts and the true values. I think the ultimate goal is to be happy for yourself and try to make other people do too with a more fair and balanced.
Jorge's father who worked 13 hours a day had much merit but should be the role model? Is not it better for creating concerns or personal motivations to search for people to move?
Maybe it is that we are a generation that has seen it grow unhappy about working parents to pay a piece imaginary needs and we have no illusion continue to maintain these goals. Maybe we've discovered is that it is absurd to expend much effort in the end money is what are the usual suspects and we prefer to live happily in our 'mediocrity'.
@ Christian
I can assure you that my father was not unhappy, just had some responsibilities and was consistent with them. He gave us the best education possible and we always devote his time to 100% and I can assure you that is a role model.
We talked about effort and hard-to value what life offers us.
"It's not the happiest but most have the least need"
I am happy working and with my family is happier now that I work more hours as an entrepreneur (entrepreneur) than before as employees very very well paid and with more time and trying less, I can tell.
I think the effort is an issue that is related to our way of living life, as it not only at work requires effort and sacrifice. Without going further yesterday after a meeting of 4 hours and not get home until I sat 23.15 (I have 2 children) I struggled to devote the best of my time despite being exhausted ... ...
and when I sat down I felt happy
Christian, I agree with almost everything you said in the sense that everyone is free to choose what compensates more. You may even depend on different stages in life, of family obligations or the sacrifice that each one is willing to make. And I look just as valid all the options.
The only complaint about your comment is that so far I do not think there was talk about the money. We talked about the effort to pursue a challenge, a goal and the satisfaction of reaching it or try giving it your all. The money usually comes as a result of work well done. Not always true but is usually well.
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Hi,
very interesting concepts that party. I personally think it's effort is the only way of overcoming oneself, and therein lies its value. Whether we fame or lazy workers, who change jobs or not be easy, with 1000 euros per month you get into a mortgage of 50,000 ... I do not think it has anything to do with the effort, but with culture capitalism in which we live, sometimes obscures rather than clarifies, the true goal of striving for something.
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Christian, I do not know if the goal of life is happiness, but in any case, we should define what makes one person happy.
Surely not all the same, some will spend their lives talking about movies (and be a Garci) and others spend many hours to sort the information (and you'll be a Larry P.).
The speech of happiness and culture of the effort of speaking Alexander are not at odds. Indeed, Garcia and LP have probably worked hard.
Alejandro, thanks for the input. Very good.
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