Whats the Moral of the Story?

In nature, the most attractive male is the one who is often the most brightly colored, loudest, fastest, flashest. It often reflects the genetic quality of that individual. These males that always get the "hot chicks"-a phrase borrowed from Prof. Sodhi- are termed dominant or alpha males.

What about the less dominant males? Can they get any females? Some species, i.e. a certain frog-can't remember the name- have satellite males. Whether they are opportunists, or survivalists, as the female frog approaches the dominant male (attracted by the loudest croaking), this satellite male would, from hiding, then jump into the opportunity and "rape" - another term borrowed from my dear prof- the female.



Man however, is more complicated than that.
There is more to man than just physical appearances.

Sometimes it really doesn't matter how talented you are or how steady you are, sometimes all that matters is how flamboyant, how appealing you are to the crowd, how you play the game that determines the winner.

In this case, I'm glad Taufik won.



In doing business and in sales, its often about the gimmicks, packaging and marketing. Never the content and quality and consumer needs. Its about the appeal. Often making the consumer fall prey to hasty impulses and buying something they don't need.

Often, haven’t we walked into a shop wanting to buy a particular camera and walked out of it with a camera with so many features that seems like its a bargain but you dun use? (But the coolpix 5200 is a really good buy!)

Haven we bought mobile phones with so many features we paid extra for like GPRS, bluetooth , some email ( I don’t know what’s in phones nowadays) capabilities that we don't use?


So whose responsible for us making the ‘wrong’ product choices?

Businessmen like to appear honest, truthful, caring for your needs, and telling you that you're getting the best deal, not necessary price, if you were to buy from them. Heck, some even use reverse psychology, telling you to buy from else where because there are better prices out there, but wanting you to trust them for being truthful.

We often get easily swayed by their smooth moves and grooves, sweet talk, apparent knowledge of what you need, their ability to make you feel good inside and use their of reverse psychology.


Does this mean that we cannot trust such cunning businessmen?

No!
It’s just their way to do business! They are trying to earn their rice bowl! Don’t blame them please!
And not all businessmen who are nice are fakes.
There truly are honest to goodness sales people out there. So who’s responsible?

It’s because of
our personal desire,
our strong urge to want to get that hand phone, of our inadequate product knowledge (do we read reviews?),
our bias (we listen to friends opinions) or
our inability to discern objectively on what we want and
our impatience.

This often results in us buying something we don't really need.

But then again is there a 'right' or 'wrong' purchase?
Not really I feel. It’s all about what you
Feel about what you purchase. As long as you are happy with what you bought, don't bother what others think, its the right one for you!

But if you really made a 'wrong' purchase, don't try to console yourself that you didn't make that mistake and that mp3 player you bought is the ‘right’ one (anyway I think creative is the best!). And that’s the one that you really need and the one that you really want.
If you do that, you're bound to make the same mistake again.

Let’s be patient, knowledgeable, objective and most importantly discerning in differentiating what we need, what we want, and what is good.


What the %!@*& is atll talking about?
Whats the moral of the story?


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I bought the wrong car.
It drinks petrol I tell ya.