Clayton M. Christensen's Essay 'Choose The Right Yardstick'

“Life is not permanent”; this sentence came to my mind after I finished read one topic of Dr. Clayton M. Christensen article, “Choose the Right Yardstick”. He confronted with serious disease and he does not have much time left to do thing that he want. However, he proceed his normal life and feel happy with his every day because he already know that what is the most important in his life. Therefore, the purpose of this essay is to illustrate the most three important ideas of the author that inspire me to be a better person.
To start with, money is not the right yardstick of the life. In these day, people doing everything because they want a money as the result. The competition in the society is high and each person have different among of money. In addition, it seem to be that the person who have a lot of money will be success in today society. It is possible to say that many people use money to be judge the yardstick of the life. Anywise, the real yardstick that people should aim for is not the money, but it is the assistance. People will remember every moment that they received the help from others and they will
Because the higher competition in the society, people always do everything that make they look distinctive from the other. In other words, in these day, people only focus on the way that they will be promote to higher level. They believe that job level is a guarantee of successful life. However, the job level is not everything in the life. People still need to be the foremost giver in order to achieve the truth yardstick of the life. The person who never give to others will be judged as selfish person, and at the end of life, everyone will forget this kind of person identity even he or she stand at the top level of career. As the author said, “Don’t worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better