Occasional(or accidental) v.s. Destined(or inevitable)

This article is a follow-up reading for this one "how to develop your strategy in 3 steps".  It's about how I came up with that strategic model.

Here is the idea. "For everything happened around you, if you looked at the result, it seemed like such a result is destined to happen(like Kaohsiung gas explosion event). But if you pulled the time frame back and looked at the most beginning, the result seemed like a combination of a series of occasional events which made this result accidentally." There is nothing that is absolutely occasional or destined. It's all about how you perceived this world.
如果你把目光放在結果,那麼一切似乎都是必然,如果放在原因,那麼一切都像是偶然,其實沒有所謂的偶然意外或必然,一切只在你的眼光中...

It's a little bit philosophy, but it's true.  It's all about where you put your focus. Like playing chess, if you focused on the beginning of this game, the winning/losing result seems like you accidentally made several right/wrong steps. But if you focused on the result of this game, it seemed like definitely that's the case. That's inevitable.  If you were a sales person, every time when you won a project, people around you might think this result in this way.

• "It's quite easy to understand why you can win."
• "If I were you, I could win also."
• "I know you can make it. I knew this will happen."

But if you pulled the time frame back to years ago while this project isn't real yet.  It's just a lead at that time. Do you think anyone can image the win or lose result? Never! No one can image the future.  So how can you come out a strategy? Why are you so confident you could win? It's really hard to say, right? especially if you put your focus at the beginning of the story.

In order to make it easy, let's put our focus at the result in advance. Then it's clear what are the factors that could have impact to this result.  Although we cannot control the future, but we can try to make it happen, by strengthening or weakening those related factors as time goes by. Look at those factors, we already know it's there.  Known vs unknown, which one is easier to start with? Even though some factors might be uncontrollable, but at least you still have the control of your presentation, your product, your approach, and your attitude.  You cannot control everything, but you can affect many things. Isn't that easy?


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