What matters is the people.
Sometimes,
people do foolish actions that even the person who is doing that action
can’t give a persuading answer for the reason they do that action. They just
want to do so. The episode 3 of revisionist history shows an example of the
situation when people do something that would be considered foolish for their
career for a certain reason that would not be considered persuading.
In the
podcast episode, there comes up a person named Wilt Chamberlain, who was a star
basketball player in NBA. His only weakness was shooting, but he did well with
underhand form. Even though he could go way up higher in ranking with underhand
shooting, he refused to use it since most of the players used overhand, and
many people tend to look down on players who use underhand form. What really
mattered to Chamberlain was how people looked at them, not the ranking or his
career.
When I heard
episode and thought about it afterwards, one idea came up to my mind: KMLA. The
main theme I’d like to talk about KMLA is peer pressure. KMLA is the best
example for the one that cares peer pressure so much since it makes inefficient
decision that does not really make sense in terms of reasonable thinking. The
most distinct episode was when teachers decided to have KMLA music concert in
one of the biggest concert halls in Korea. Actually, our music concert doesn’t
have much guests coming to see us, except for the new students who have passed
the test and have been chosen to enroll our school next year and the parents of
the students. Additionally, it does not give us any profits. Then, why should
we do this concert in such a big hall? That is because of the peer pressure
that name value of KMLA gives us. Everyone knows that having a concert in a
gigantic hall is extremely inefficient and only leaves us financial loss, but
since they care about how they are viewed by the outside people so much, they
just go through this enormous loss. Then, is this a right thing to do?
It is
inevitable for a person/group to ignore the outside views, and it is not a bad
thing to care about them. However, what we should keep in mind, is that we shouldn’t
change our basic foundation that constitutes oneself. We should set our own
goal, and run for it, even though others may think that we are weird.
Hmmm. I'm not sure what to say about the concert. It's definitely a bit impractical, but to say it isn't impressive and worthy of a top facility is untrue IMO. That said, the whole thing is indeed impractical. Better examples to match the podcast theme? Probably. Perhaps studying habits or club activities etc. Anyways, nice post. I like your style of writing - clear set up and delivery of opinion.
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