What are our motives?
“… In a flash of certainty,” he wrote, “I saw
that if one’s motives are wrong, nothing can be right. It makes no difference whether you are a
mailman, a hairdresser, an insurance salesman, a housewife – whatever. As long as you are serving others, you do the
job well. When you are concerned only
with helping yourself, you do it less well – a law as inexorable [unchangeable]
as gravity.”
-
Arthur Gordon [as quoted in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,
Covey]
When I was reading the book from which
I quoted above, this article stroked me.
It was Sunday at dusk and me, having a cup of tea in a certain café
around my neighbourhood. I had no pen
but did not hesitate to borrow from someone around and extracted it on a piece
of paper hoping that the issue would be something worth discussing. Unfortunately, I don’t know who Gordon was or
is. But he gotta be a great man because
he’s got a great saying on who we people are.
