Keep dream big so that the dream will keep growing up.
Alan has two dreams; one is to buy up the Manchester United Football Club with an amount of 75 billion for its market value. The other dream is to become a CEO before he is 35 years old. A normal person must think he is so crazy. Yet, Alan insists that the Gamanian should always set up a higher goal for himself or herself through a piece of advice. It is motivation and it is the magic that keeps your dream growing.
Starting to earn his first pay check $NT 28,000 per month when he first entered society. He earned an annual salary in 22 months in his second employment when he worked for Toyota Tsusho Corporation. He got a managing director job in his third employment to deal with Japanese affairs at Gamania. Then, he went to work in Europe on behalf of Gamania as a senior ground breaker. After going through a few major Japanese game factories, he becomes the first employee to work for Twitter in the Greater China Region. Alan is a humble person who is willing to learn and dares to ask for what he wants in his career path. He took every single chance as his kinetic energy to work to the top. That’s why he can look deeper and think bigger on his broader career path.
Five keywords for the formula to dream big
Keyword 1: Curiosity
The stage when people learn the most and fastest is when they started to ask “why”. Each time when people ask “why”, they get a chance to quickly accumulate a bundle of knowledge. You are not an IT person, but you ask why. You will know why the server’s carrying capacity is 5,000 people instead of 500 people. Therefore, Alan encouraged every Gamanian to think of himself or herself as a sponge to absorb all knowledge and turn it into a personal asset.
Keyword 2: Dam
Alan shared his concept with the Gamanian about what his past supervisor had told him so that when he worked for the Japanese corporation. He said the so-called dam is like the reservoir. If the reservoir has stored enough amount of water, you can increase your potential energy. When you get a chance, you can do your best and show what you’ve got with your best performance by releasing the flood; that is, you can show your capacity, all at once.
Keyword 3: Film Director
Alan won the championship of 2 consecutive inbound basketball games once. He smiled and said people must be amazed of his body shape and wonder how he got such an excellent score. He said it was all because he knew how to be a film director. As a film director, you have to know how to find the good actor or actress, the gaffer and art director to make an epic film by letting people to do their best. Likewise, as a project manager, you can close a great case if you find the right person to do the right thing.
Keyword 4: Be a volunteer
Alan explained to everyone that what he meant about “being a volunteer” is to do the job right, and then go and explore your full potentials. So people will not excuse themselves to get away from the job they cannot do it correctly. In that year, Alan told his supervisor that he would like to try to be a Project Manager after knowing well about his job as a marketing specialist. After he reached his goals, he asked the supervisor again that he would like to learn the job description of new games released; Alan was assigned the job to go to Europe on behalf of Gamania for breaking grounds due to such a proposal he made. With such great responsibilities, he was one step further towards his big dreams.
Keyword 5: Capability of solving the problem
Alan said whoever wants to join TWITTER needs to pass a job interview from an American supervisor. The American supervisor would always ask one question. “Excuse me. Do you know how many guests are there in all Starbucks branches in Taipei City”? Some candidates may get stunned at the moment, and murmured how come I should know about this question; however, if you see through the question, you’ll know the American supervisor is not trying to give the candidate a hard time. What the supervisor really wants is to test the candidate’s capability of logical thinking. And this is exactly the capability of problem-solving, and a way to know what your values are.
Take roots at Gamania and explore the whole world.
Five-year work at Gamania helped Alan lay the solid foundations for his career. He also filled himself with confidence through this work experience. He began to challenge the whole world and explore his business scope by combining what he has experienced when working for Gamania. Among all these, it also includes an expansion of the new domain such as keeping track on the effect of digital advertisements and evaluating its marketing value. You might want to ask how come Alan can get started with such a new tool so fast. How come he can get familiar with it so quickly? Let’s look back at these 5 keywords. You will find a solution to the problem to allow you to absorb all knowledge, just like the sponge metaphor, with curiosity. You will then volunteer to exert your capability to solve problems; therefore, you can dream big and start to explore your full potentials!
