12.0 My Best Mistake!

12.1. What is "My Best Mistake"?

First and foremost, this topic of My Best Mistake is an inspired-adoption from one of the popular article series in LinkedIn wherein leaders share their insights of best mistake that greatly have shaped them. Mentality Evolutions will now share the Founder's best mistake: How he rejected a startup offer by a bank in year 2012, and is consequently followed by multi-national companies' meetings in year 2013?

12.2 The Beginning

The scenario in late 2012 to have been offered two startup jobs at the same time: Banking industry versus Food and Beverage (F&B) industry. Comparatively, it was the battle of promising remuneration versus insignificant remuneration. So, what made The Founder opted for the F&B company over the Banking company? Long story made short, it was due to insufficient disclosure. The Recruiter from the Banking company offering The Founder a job was unable to disclose sufficient information, whereas the Recruiter from the F&B company disclosed extensive information as to how would he begin his career in the company and its consequent rough mapping. The key point here is transparency in disclosure.

12.3 Meanwhile...the Continuous Improvement

To have opted for the F&B company's offer, The Founder then encountered another not-to-miss opportunity: The Productive Muslim Seminar 2013. The decision to attend it was purely out of self-initiation. What made The Founder self-initiatively chose to attend the seminar? It was due to his acknowledging that he fell short in being a productive person both in personal life and working life. The result from attending the seminar was astounding for The Founder. One of the practical knowledge acquired from the speaker - Mohammed Faris, the Founder and CEO of Productive Muslim - was the Productivity Equation.

The Founder read articles, journals, and attended seminars to constantly self-improve, but it seemed insufficient. There was another element for continuous improvement, which was having great contacts. Great contacts who love to exchange personal opinions on ideas. It was them that made the partial significant contribution to The Founder's development as both parties exchanged insights.

Summing it all, The Founder's continuous improvement revolves on interpersonal self-development and great contacts.

12.4 The New Beginning

The new beginning was when The Founder encountered meetings with multi-national companies. It began in the early third quarter, year 2013. All in all, in what way have they contributed to The Founder's development? The key answer: Questions. They questioned his abilities, and it resulted with him realizing his own shortcomings. By acknowledging his own shortcomings, he could then come up with a solution to each of his shortcoming. In its overall aftermath, he has discovered a detailed career mapping (to be posted in the future), along with how can one work passionately (previous article or click here).

Here is a key in wrapping up this topic: "Success in failure".

"For every success story there's a 100s of near-misses. Every entrepreneur fails before succeeding." - Richard Branson

I hope this topic aspires you as much as it has aspired myself, wa la hawla wa la kuwatta ila billah. Insha'Allah, the next topic will be posted in the near future.