Is it better to be smart or lucky?

These few days have been doing Feng Shui audits for families that have growing childrens and also friends have been voicing concerns and excitement of their children school major examination.

From my own experience of being in formal school for 16 years, much of the 11 years are more about examining or testing how good my memory is compared to the rest of my class. Only later years in my college and uni that started to require me to use my own analysis and viewpoint into a subject or discussion.

I still find it true that examination in primary and high school has nothing to do and not a way to gauge how high a person will achieve in society.

From a Chinese Metaphysic conclusion, if your youth luck is favourable, then likely you will perform above average as a student. If you have unfavourable luck during your youth, you will encounter alot of difficulties and distraction in your study or shall we say memorizing capabilities.

Then the answer is obvious, from purely a grade standpoint in school, it is much better to be lucky than smart. If you are lucky and smart then you will be a top student.

Sometimes I find parents over stress themselves on how will a child perform in school. I would be more concern on how their prime age luck would turn out and which area that they can most likely be successful with what they are already being equipped from the day they are born. Each person character traits and luck phases or cycle will be different. It is doing the right thing at the right time such as venturing into own business OR maintain in a corporation during those times will ended differing you from a mediocre achiever or a high achiever in life. Timing is everything, knowing when you luck trend is in your favour and when to lay low is a critical part to master if you want to win in the game of life.

Then as a parent, our job is to provide and guide our children to best maximize their destiny in life instead of just preparing them to be good at the memory game in our school system.

Prepare them in life skill such as politeness, able to engage in a friendly conversation, rapport skills with others, how to think constructively and critically, how to stand up and speak up fo your rights, respect others, how to get into a real win-win solutions with others, how to enjoy finer things in life, how to laugh at yourself, laugh with others and many more that is not taught in school. But critical to their survival and success in any our modern society aroun the world!

-- Posted from my iPhone