26 April, 2008

Attitude + Aptitude = Alttidute???

Today was the Division S International Speech and Table Topics Contest. It was quite an inspiring day.

During the table topics contest, 8 speakers were challenged their minds with an interesting topic. Attitude, Aptitude and Alttidute

Besides the difference that all 3 words starting with the letter A, each has an unique meaning.
Alttidute - high or important position, rank, etc.
Attitude - manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, esp. of the mind:
Aptitude - capability or ability; innate or acquired talent for something

There is a clear winner when he shares his own equation:

Attitude + Aptitude = Alttidute.

He says that with the correct attitude and skillful aptitude, you will get alttidute. But its not neccessary, there are many external factors involved. So I came out with my own equation:

Attitude + Aptitude + Opportunities = Alttidute.

No matter how good we are, we need to have Opportunities to do it. We need to see the opportunities coming and grab it.

The true accent of this equation is we must learn to FOCUS at the right thing at the right time. A lot of times we are just focusing on the daily stress and challenges that we need to handle and forgot about our DREAMS in life.

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