Getting Rid of Short-Term Mentality

Foundation to success need to be built painstakingly with a decent amount of effort. The phrase “short-term mentality” has gained more attention than a century ago. Many have proved to fail by focusing on the short-term goals rather than looking at a bigger picture and pursue long-term goals. One concrete example that we can look at is China who believes strongly in long-term mentality and his beliefs have been manifested today. ‘China's extraordinary economic growth and active diplomacy are already transforming East Asia, and future decades will see even greater increases in Chinese power and influence’ (Ikenberry, 2008, p.1). The short-term mentality mindsets are escalating in a group of young adults like fresh graduates ready to enter the working life. This may cause a dire consequence as young adults will be the one who will replace and succeed the leaders today to lead our world. All countries should work hand-in-hand to stop this problem from propagating in society. Our mindset is "an established set of attitudes held by someone" according to the Oxford American dictionary while short-term mentality may be referred to as a mindset of achieving success in an instant. People with this mentality prefer to achieve things in a jiff rather than achieving them painstakingly. They consider the troubles and the pleasures that they are going to get rather than the long-term benefits that they will receive. At the end, the short-term mentality that ruins them in a long-run as “success does not come in a day”. One simple demonstrated by Martin (2010) is when a person is baking a cake while she is hungry. Most probably she will not wait until the timer is up as his emotion feelings say that it is done. One common personal characteristic is the desire for immediate short-term gratification (Martin, 2010, p.1). This means that they want to experience something right now rather than waiting for something to happen in future. Let us study the case of Chinese milk