A Farmer’ Son – Reflection
Our professor instructed us to view the video on YouTube
entitled “A Farmer’s Son”, and also instructed us to write a reflection about
the video. The video is all about the son of a Filipino farmer who is now an
engineer, and also the one who designed the first personal computer chipset,
and it is now inside every personal computers nowadays, his name is Diosdado
Banatao also known as “Dado”. Dado was once an Overseas Filipino Worker in the
United States, and he encountered many failures but eventually he built his own
company. And now, he is using his own success to help his own country which is
the Philippines and also to all Filipino Youth with his job at the PhilDev. The
Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev) is a nonprofit, innovation
organization that accelerates science and technology for national development
through initiatives, programs, and partnerships (www.phildev.org). The Philippine
Development Foundation was founded by Diosdado Banatao. The foundation is
developing scalable solutions to domestics needs and it is also advocates
innovative and revolutionary ideas
then lead that ideas to global platform. Also, the foundation is
providing scholarship opportunities to the Filipino Youth who wanted to be
successful.
The story of Diosdado Banatao is very inspiring because he
was a son of a farmer who is always get bullied and get inferior with others.
But despite of this situations he was determined to achieve his dreams in life,
he wanted to be successful which he now accomplished. He even established his
own companies, especially the “The Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev)
that helps the Filipino Youth for them to now to stop studying, and for them to
more knowledge on how to be successful. Also, the foundation is helping school
to have internet access which is in the Philippines, the internet access is
very poor. Because Diosdado Banatao once said “We know hardship, it is time we
learn success”. As a college student, I never thought of this kind of mindset,
maybe because I do not feel hardships in life by the mean time. All I ever have
in mind is that I should get good grades and graduated for me to have a
high-paying jobs in the future. Moreover, I am not that determined as Sir
Diosdado Banatao was to achieve goals. I do not even sure what I really wanted
to achieve in life, and instead I should have to get good grades, to be
graduated, and to have a high-paying job someday. I never thought of having my
own company, so that I could provide more available for the Filipinos who in
need. I never thought something that would help the others, and all I even
think of is myself and goodness for my family. Maybe it is time think the
differently, because in life is difficult, especially here in the Philippines,
which is in the crisis of lacking of opportunities. After knowing the story of
Sir Diosdado Banatao, it made me realize that I should really have to do my
very best, to have a goal in life, and to be determined to achieve that goal so
that I could provide opportunities to the others, especially for the Filipino
Youth for them to also have a hope for achieving their goals in life, and also
for them to establish their own companies so that they could also provide
opportunities to be successful in life.
Furthermore, from the story
of Sir Diosdado Banatao, I learned four things for me to achieve my dreams as
well as to be successful, namely: I should be creative, innovative thinker, passionate,
and most especially I should have determination for achieving my goals in life.
Currently, as a college student, these things are the things that I do not have
right now. Maybe I am creative but I am not just aware of it, maybe I am
innovative thinker but I just ignore that ideas, maybe I am passionate to the
things that I have to do but I am not that sentiment. But what I am really sure
is that I am not determined to achieve the goals in life and to be successful
in the future. Because for me, it is even difficult to just think of what are
the things that I really wanted to achieve, and I do not know the things that
makes me happy, and all I ever think of is myself and my family. And all I ever
think is to graduate in college to have a high-paying job for me to help my
help and having high-paying job is the current and only I am thinking right
now. And also, I do not feel passionate and determine it is because I do not
feel the need to be passionate and to be determined. Because I do not feel the
pressure or the hardships the Sir Diosdado Banatao once had. The only pressure
I always feel is in the academics, I feel the pressure of finishing my homework
on time, submitting the projects on time, and I even always do cramming most of
the time, and that is it. There is nothing special of all the thing I do. Even
though, we are not that rich and abundant, I am still not determined, maybe
because of the mindset that I am having right now, is to get good grade, to be
graduated and to have a high-paying jobs someday, and there is no pressure with
this at all. Because for our life to better, all I have to do to graduate in
college so that I could eventually help my family. Maybe it is not the time
change our mindset we are having right now. Changing it to “Get good grade, to
be graduate, to be graduated, and create our own company and be the boss”.
Moreover, because of the story of Sir Diosdado Banatao, it made me realize that
I really have to change the way I think in life, that I have to think like a
technopreneur, so that I could achieve the goals in life and to be successful.
And so that I could also provide opportunities to the others for them to be
successful.
For us to be successful, I
would like to say that we need four things which I learned from Sir Diosdado
Banatao, namely: Creativity, Innovative Ideas, Passion, and Determination.
First is the Creativity, for us to be successful, we have to think creatively,
we have to think something new and interesting, we have to think wisely,
because creativity is not just for tangible things it is could also be
intangible things. We could create new technology that could solve domestic
needs, and we could also create ideas that could help to remain passionate and
determined. Because things starts with an idea, an idea that could change the
life of the others, an idea that could solve crisis, and an idea that could provide
opportunities for the other, and an idea that could help us achieve our goals.
And that is why we have to be creative for to survive in the world of
entrepreneurship. Moreover, being creative is also means that we have to take
all the risk and we have to ignore every doubt we have then we face every challenges
that we may encounter. Being creative, also means that we have break or change
our routine and start doing something different for us to create something
different because do not want to stick as we are right now, we have to change
because life always move forward. Creativity also comes with great
inspirations. We could have inspiration from our family, we could have
inspiration for achieving our goals in life, and inspiration to be successful
entrepreneur. The time that we have inspiration, we could now start challenging
ourselves to a whole new level of entrepreneurial marketing.
Secondly, we have think an
Innovative Ideas, because the advancement of technology is fast, it evolves
very quickly. For us to solve crisis we have to think an idea that is
innovative. We could even use an existing idea and then we have to innovate to
something different and turn it to something new to the public. Being
innovative help to create more effective solutions that could actually help the
growth of Information Technology (IT) industry. Being innovative is also means
changing our own perspective in things that do not expect. Also, being
innovative means we have to adapt to the changes in the environment and everything
around us, so that we could provide better provide products and services to the
life of the people. In addition, there are a lot of ways for us to be an
innovative. We have to find the aspects or ways that would help us to
innovative our own company or business, either we have to do research or we
plan ahead of time and anticipate possibilities. And it will be applied to all
under the company, in every departments, and in every employees so that the
effectiveness for innovative will be successful. Because innovation is the way
for the business to be globally competitive, and then could provide high
quality products and services to the customers. And because at the end of the
day the only matters is the idea, an idea that is innovative and effective
solution to the problems.
Thirdly, the next key for us
to be successful is to have Passion. We have to be passionate for all the
things that we have to do for us to be successful. We have to love the career
we chose to take, a career of being a technopreneur. Because Technopreneurship
or being in a business, requires positive thinking and having a purpose why we
want to be a technopreneur and why we want to achieve our goals to be
successful in life. It help us to be happy for all the things we do every day,
give us the idea that we are on the right path, and gives us hope to have an
exciting future. Because it is not just a career that we should really pursue
eagerly, we have to enjoy everything and get excited to achieve our goal to be
a successful technopreneur. That is why all of the technopreneur, such as Steve
Jobs are successful. And that is why to be passionate is important in our lives.
But of course, too much of passion is also bad for our career, we might hurt
some people in the process. We only need to be passionate enough for to have
energy to do all the tasks that we have to do. In addition, to be passionate
also being a creative, it help to us to be creative because we have the eager
to risk more and put more on the line of Technopreneurship.
Lastly, the last thing that
for us to be successful is Determination. We have the ability of being
creative, we have the ability to be passionate to every work, and we have the
ability to think innovatively but all of these will be wasted if we are not
determine to pursue our dreams. We cannot be successful if we are not
determined to achieve our goals, we cannot be successful if we do not want to
be successful. Because we have to be positive all the time, we have to have a
positive personal character that would help on achieving goals in life. In Technopreneurship,
we cannot afford to be opposite of it, we cannot afford to have hesitations to
every decision we have to make, because we have to be interested in all the
things that need to do of being technopreneur and a successful business owner.
But if we are not determined, we most likely be given up easily, and we tend
not to get things to be done, and more importantly, being determined means we
are eager to have all the rewards that are waiting for us in the future, and
determined means being confident to execute all of the plans and strategies for
marketing. These are the things that I learned from Sir Diosdado Banatao, his
willingness to risk, his ability to consistently be passionate and determined,
and also his high level of creativity which is makes him a very successful
technopreneur. His story is what makes me realize to think different and
innovative, and as well as to be determined to achieve all of the goals in
life, and part of it is to be a successful Technopreneur someday.
