I remember when I was a child, my parents and elder always taught me, we must share our toys, books and etc. I’m sure every parent taught their children sharing. However, when we grow up, we seldom do sharing. Most of us will become selfish; keeping everything as secret or the thing that they thought should keep in secret.
Asian love to keep their knowledge secretly, that’s why many of ours ancestor’s knowledge are lost. And the classes’ concept or respect to teacher or senior is higher than everything. Last time, you cannot point out the mistake made by teacher on the sport or in front of everyone. Even now, most of the Asian also will not point it out. Respect is good, but just does not too over. Over will make the thing from good to bad. Respect is giving from both sides. However, westerners love to share their knowledge, they will not keep something behind, discussion is the way they share their knowledge and gain the new ideas.
Example when you having a first meeting or discussion with your seniors. If you are with Asians, juniors sure will sit on their seat quietly listen the seniors giving “speech”. This is so call respect? Or maybe this is first time juniors feel shy? Or scare the ideas in mind are wrong and make fun by others? Or scare the idea which against with the senior and will get angry by the senior? I have no ideas, but this happened always. Let’s turn to another way round, if you are with westerns, you can see peoples around you excited getting involve discussion. They will not care the ideas sound out are correct or wrong, just sound out and discuss. If not you will never know what you think is agree by others or not.
Listen and sound out ideas are good, we able to gain different ideas, and many of it are we have not think before. If is just listening, you will forget it faster. Because you are just listen and not thinking. Unorganized information is unable to stay in our mind longer. If you are just speak out your ideas and never listen, you just stay in you world. You just follow what you think. Therefore, listen and sound out is equal to sharing. Sharing is good.
Why peoples scare sharing? I believe you able give out many answers. But, think back is it the answer or is an excuse? You scare others will steal your cheese? But, think twice. The more you share, the more you earn. Your knowledge is increasing but not decreases. Sharing is like exchange. Example, we go restaurant buy our meal, chef serving food to us and we going to pay for it. It is exchange and every one agrees on it. It is same as sharing knowledge. Why can’t we exchange our knowledge?
PS: I’m not comment on how good westerners were. It is just an example.
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i also believe in the more you share the more you know, that’s why i always share my knowledge.
well, i think that’s the problem with our system, they value seniority. even if the are only old.
and it gets worse in our field, seniority in our field is actually half bad, a super-super senior that noes pascal or c may not worth as much as a junior who know their .net or java.
Although i must admit, their advantage will always be their experience.