"What am I doing this for?"
I have been listening to Ricardo Semler in his TED-talk "How to run a company without (almost) no rules". He ends the talk with the the words "What am I doing this for" and these words kind of hit me. There are so many things that we do just to please others. And things we do just because we think we have to do them. And jobs we stay at because we need the money to pay for all sorts of things we really don't need. What am I doing this for is a good thing to ask yourself now and then and to take a moment and reflect.
Ricordo talks about a company without no rules and I believe that people (not everybody of course) steps up and take responsibility when they are given a chance. It is not an easy way to run a company, you have to have courage to trust your employees and if it is a large company it's not easy to change the policy of how the company is managed. But in these times with stress and diseases because we work to much I think it could be a way out for many people to feel better.
But I do think there is a snag in it somewhere. Even if you work in a company with no rules there is group pressure. You look at others and you copy what they do. If they work a lot, there will probably be a little devil on your shoulder that tells you that you have to work a lot as well. Group pressure can be a powerful thing.
Finally, what am I writing this for? Probably because I've been taught that education is good, education is important. Hopefully because I enjoy it. How about you?
