Good to Great

Do you can differentiate the meaning of “Good” and “Great”?

This kind of thing I heard from a meeting on a day of Industry Training semester. Something I realized was quite meaningful. What is the different between “Good” and “Great”? It cannot be denied that “Great” is better than “Good”. There are 3 levels: Bad, Good, Great. Someone can jump from “Bad” level to “Good” level or “Great” level. But he/she is unable to jump from “Good” to “Great”. Someone can be good but not great. And, someone can be great but not good. This one I can’t explain why because I also don’t know. Last time the discussion was talking a lot of points about this issue but all of the points was almost disappeared in my mind and just remember the idea.

Everyone also know that humble can make someone to be better. In a chinese proverb said, “Humble brings benefit, proud makes loss”. Now you should know why someone cannot jump from “Good” to “Great” but can jump from “Bad” to “Great”. It is relative with the proverb. If you think that you are good, you will think that your idea and solution to do something is good enough and it is not necessary to accept any another way to do. You will ignore someone who gives you a better way to solve the problem. Then you will lose the chance to learn something new. That means, your knowledge was always remaining at the same level. So … how can upgrade to “Great” without improving yourself.

SO … Always think that yourself is very very bad. Then you will ask for help from someone may better than you. Saying about programming, there are many ways to do a program but the different things will be performance and complexity. Something may be actually easy stuff but you may use a complex way to do it and write a long long code. As the result -> performance slow … Anyway, although you know how to do but you pretend that you don’t know and ask for better solution. This is a good way to help you to be great!