Daily Deep Thoughts #1 - Human Psychology

First of all thank you for reading my post. This will be an experiment I will probably run for a weeks or so.

The goal or purpose for this new series of entry is to simply start a meaningful and deep conversation with my reader/curators.

I think after I graduated from University and started working back home I started to take interest in human psychology. Just so you know I am a Computer Science Graduate from USNW Sydney and I live in Indonesia.

After looking job for a while I ended up working at a company that is owned by the father of one of my friends. He entrusted me with one of his small branches on East Java. There I went and started working there.

They gave me a position as a manager which at that time I never had any experience with. Before this job I only ever had a sales job and that wasn't very good. When I say wasn't very, I wasn't very good at that job.

Then before I went there and started working, I thought to myself. If I have to manage all these people I better start reading about how to become a good manager!

After that I read a book about managing people by Warren Buffet. Honestly? I don't remember the title but that is one of my books that Warren Buffet wrote that is not about investing.

And by the way! This the an actual picture that I took close to my office there. This is the exact road I went through once a week to meet a client. Goddamn that place looks gorgeous!

So back to my work now! Don't get distracted now. There I was working, managing a small team on my own. And then I started to get more intrigue with human psychology.

Why do these people do what they do?

Why some of them cannot be trusted with the simplest of task?

Why after working for more the a couple of year they still have this bad mentality?

Now when I say bad mentality I really meant it. One of them (kind of) steal from the warehouse. I still can't comprehend it until this day. Not to brag but I worked really hard there. I manage to double sales target and even increase yearly bonus so much that I doubled their salary in 1 year! Imagine that!!

How ungrateful is that? I don't hold grudges but let's get real man. Branch is going great, boss is happy, sales is double, overall salary is double. Think about it! Work for 5 years and you got paid 10! And somebody stole from the warehouse!

After that working experience and as I always say common sense is not common I decided to dig further into human psychology.

I took a free online course on iTunesU about human psychology. But the best source I can recommend from my experience is a book called "Road Less Traveled". That is by far one of the best book I've read so far.

So if you could share your thoughts bellow I would be grateful. Maybe experience you had with friends, co-worker and families? Or do you share the same interest in human psychology just like me? Do you have an actual degree on Psychology? Maybe you are a psychiatrist (I could pick on your brain little bit)?