The economic crisis generates opportunities

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02-03-2009 | Javier Gomez

The Chinese popular culture provides us with a traditional knowledge that reflects the knowledge of many years of history; of knowledge, and especially, of experiences. And nothing better than the Chinese knowledge to find this light in the middle of the thunderstorms, be personal or world, be in familiar topics or be in economic topics.

It is true that the economic crises set against the wall to many, which the debts drown, which the financial problems grow, which does not find work, there is no money or we cannot live as we would like, but it is not less true, that behind every crisis opportunities always arise, and the patience and the wisdom are fundamental factors to get up even more fortresses.

The curious thing is that in the Chinese language, the word “crisis“ is composed by two signs that, read independently “danger“ or “risk“ and “opportunity“ mean. Who or how did this signs combination form to form the word in question in this language, probably nobody knows it, but what it is not possible to doubt, is that the Chinese have a special gift to receive the extract of the things. Oriental philosophy that is called.

危机: “crisis“ in Chinese

Wēi (危): I "am in danger"
Jī (机): translated between other meanings as “opportunity“

When the crises are too tight, the opportunities ring at the doorbell. It is the good of the human creativity: that nuestor emulation for surviving makes us move us and find the door of leakage (or of march forward, as it looks). And although it is true that many are comfortable and prefer not to move and to stop to cry, also it it is that others will do it for them, and sooner or later, this light always appears.

Let's try then to make use of the crisis to reorganize us, to make our life simpler, to discover what things are superfluous in ours every day, to eliminate all that remains us. It is the moment to look in our interior; of uncovering, of finding our values and looking for what we want. And when we have the force and the necessary courage to go out forward, we will feel, finally, freer mentally to find an exit to our financial "stopper".

For whom we are spending this crisis, when we have gone out, we will realize that we have learned to manage better; to buy better and cheaper, to rationalize our resources, to manage our patrimony and to live and to optimize every day. It is not learned when everything is fine. There are the falls, the holes and the bad moments, which more they teach us.

Chinese philosophy, yes. That many people will consider it to be a cheap philosophy, also. But it does not serve of anything puts a blindfold in the eyes because after all it is a knowledge worked for centuries …

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the little that he goes so far as to read is encouraging, I like the Chinese philosophy very much.
Comment for carmen
03-03-2009 22:13

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