{"id":45089,"date":"2018-09-28T15:27:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roblilwall.com\/en-my\/?p=45089"},"modified":"2025-04-29T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T07:18:05","slug":"successes-failures-keynote-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roblilwall.com\/en-my\/blog\/2018\/09\/28\/successes-failures-keynote-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"What role has luck played in your successes (good luck) or failures (bad luck)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had an interesting September being a keynote speaker, as well as having the opportunity to listen to other keynote speakers.<\/p>\n

Good Luck or Bad Luck<\/h3>\n

Prior to my speech at the Singapore Management Festival for<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Singapore Institute of Management<\/span><\/a>, Idris Jalal, former CEO of Malaysia Airlines gave an excellent speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

He challenged us to think about the ten most important events in our lives, and then consider how many of them were due to our own efforts, and how many were due to things outside our control. He estimated 60% are outside our control. I think that’s about right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s the same on expeditions – good luck or bad luck can make all the difference between success or failure (accidents, illness, weather, meeting the wrong people along the way, c.f. no accidents, no illness, good weather, meeting the right people).<\/span><\/p>\n

Recognising the role of luck\/things outside our control keeps us humble when we do succeed, and helps us keep perspective when we fail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is also vital we are continually improving our abilities, attitudes and mindset, because then when we have tough times (bad luck) we are better able to get through them, and when we have great opportunities (good luck) we are better able to make the most of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thought for the Day<\/span><\/h3>\n

There is a lot of uncertainty about the future right now.\u00a0<\/span>
\nUncertainty makes us afraid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the summer I had lunch with the inspiring<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>NiQ<\/span>\u00a0Lai<\/span><\/a>, co-owner of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>HKBN<\/span><\/a> (one of my favourite clients in Hong Kong \ud83d\ude09 )<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked\u00a0<\/span>NiQ<\/span> what he thought the future held. I really liked his answer. He said:<\/span>
\n\u201cI don\u2019t know what the next ten years hold, but what I do know is that in ten <\/span>years time<\/span>\u00a0we all will look back on today and say: \u2018wow, there was so much opportunity back in 2018\u2019!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Wise words, thanks <\/span>NiQ<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Keynote Speeches in Asia<\/h3>\n

This month I have given speeches for Ferrero in China, Sunlife in Macau, an education conference in China, AIA in Hong Kong, and two speeches in Singapore for Singapore Institute of Management and Bank of Singapore. A fun start to the busy autumn speaking season. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was great to see Red<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Hong Yi<\/span><\/a>\u00a0give a speech at the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Sun Life Financial<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>MDRT<\/span><\/a>\u00a0event in Macau last week, where I was also speaking.<\/span><\/p>\n

Red is an artist – who makes extraordinary works of art out of things like fruit, tea-leaves and chopsticks! Her clients include the likes of Google, Facebook and Jackie Chan (by whom she was commissioned to create a portrait of him out of partially burnt chopsticks!).<\/span><\/p>\n

In her speech, Red gave some very helpful reflections about creativity and the artistic\u00a0<\/span>endeavour<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n