Post #597

Jack Ma is Chinese superstar, who's adored by Chinese people and rightly so. Alibaba has helped to bring prosperity to many Chinese families. However, he left operational control of Alibaba and decided to take on the role of a modern Confucius. Recently he had a talk with Elon Musk and this was some cringe worthy reality check for Jack Ma. In this particular video Jack took the role of some kind of practical guy, who's not bothered with scientists(by the way I agree that action is more important than some kind of scientific theory). But he probably doesnt realize that unlike Elon, he's not a practical guy anymore. Elon is running 2 companies and building some mind blowing things while Jack Ma is going around giving motivational talks. If you want to appear smart, don’t sit next to Elon. I was really suprised to see this talk, I thought Jack Ma really was this new Confucius, but the more I listened to him talk it felt like as if he has been preparing to this talk by reading inspirational quotes from instagram. When you are living around people who never criticize anything you say and find some "deep wisdom" even way you say dumb things, you can become delusional and overconfident. And even though I can't call Jack Ma delusional, but he sure was overconfindent about those uncertain issues they discussed. Im sure we all know this kind of people who can talk absolute bullshit with such confidence that you even start to wonder maybe there's some truth to what they're saying. It's painful and inconvenient to hear the criticism, but it's better to endure the pain of criticism from people than get destroyed by reality. There are numerous stories of successful people who destroyed themselves because they were surrounded by bunch of Yes-men. It's important to have one or two people in your life who can tell you that you're being dumb even when you're on top of the world. https://youtu.be/fS_TfL7rrHI