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To be frank, I can brag for a minute non-stop while talking with a friend or meeting with someone I know well. But I never try bragging the way I bragged to my close friends in front of someone I don’t know well. In real world, you know how to brag. But have you actually thought about trying to brag for a minute in your blog through writings?
(Picture taken from Brag!)
What have I ever done that’s worth talking about?
The whole idea of this bragging thing is about me: This blog was started by a short yet handsome guy, Daniel. He came to earth after spending nine months in a dark compartment. His life was plain normal in his early childhood/teens until he made the boldest decision to fly across the South China Sea to study Civil Engineering. Civil Engineering doesn’t seem like a tough field somehow because this dweeb got a four flat (4.0) once. He was not only academically good but also a very busy body who ran an organization called PELTAC from 2004 to 2005. He met many leaders and great people from there. After a whopping five years, he managed to graduate, god willing, with an Honour and was conferred a degree by one of the Top 500 University called Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He even met the Chancellor of UTM, Sultanah Zanariah on the graduation day. Most of his friends upon graduating went to seek for their first job while he decided to continue to stay in the University, another bold decision. Let’s brag about the present now and let the bygone days be left aside. His three months old blog has only 3000 plus visits which is considerably not so okay for a not-so-famouss people like him. His spams are only about 60 plus and he received some 260 comments for his blogs mainly from those residing in Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Australia and USA. He has been featured in YSN and he even got his blog anchored as one of the “Links to Blogs by the Young and Successful” in Waste Time Wisely. Left aside those routine and boring contents, he really has nothing to write for his blog except bragging and bragging. Sometimes he even wonder why his faithful friends are still following his stimulating posts despite rather hebetudinous.
I bet that’s almost one minute, perhaps more than one minute. Do you get the idea of bragging? In my humble opinion, you have to sell yourself in this real and competitive world. You have to sell yourself be it making friends, looking for an ideal partner, attending an interview, getting a job and so much more to list down. To me, others are only looking at how confident and how sincere you are.
Look, if you are not telling others what you want them to know and think about you, who will? I believe most of us would want others to think of us the way we want them to think about us. That’s one of the reason why we get up, dress up, speak up and out, and show up in our everyday lives.
By learning to self-promote like a pro (the right way, of course, without being boring or obnoxious!), you’ll impress people with your confidence and personality. Before you know it, everyone will be giving you the respect you deserve.
Quoted from BRAG! Party.
[Note: I bragged about myself on purpose in this article, if you find it too boring or too obnoxiouos do bear with me. I find it that I simply need someone to talk to since I have been deprived of chances to converse with human after spending almost one week in the laboratory. I just cannot stand a day without talking or meeting with friends.]
8 comments ↓
Great post, Daniel! I went to my first speed networking event last night and had trouble trying to “brag” about myself in 2 minutes. Wish I had read this earlier!
LOL, Daniel, a very unusual post of yours here. Don’t sound like the normal you but hey, it’s cool to brag, especially like this one… Post some more brag techniques, and I’m sure people from around the world will start to notice your presence! =)
aaahhh. bragging…
To me, the true art would be..
Being completely humble, and yet still be able to tell the messages (brag lah) that you want to sell, without making your audience feeling challenged or alarmed at any way.
It is like, telling people how good you are, doing it in a manner they feel comfortable hearing it, do not mind you talking about it, and even wanting to hear more.
Thats not bragging of course, but its not something easy to do. takes time to practice ahahahaha..
Lets call it, “sharing stories/successes” rather than bragging.
Anyway, im in Kuching !!! Woooo hooooooo
Jovie: It’s still not too late to discover my post. I am sure you have a lot of opportunities to brag in the near future with your current portfolio.
ColourfulWorld: Ya… Knowing me so well, you know I don’t usually brag. The idea of bragging is somewhat motivating at times. About people noticing my presence, I am currently working on that.
robin: Oh oh oh… Welcome back to the kolo-mee town! Bragging in an interesting as well as moderate way! In other words it is all about sharing your stories/successes with your friends/audience… That’s true!
its a very interesting post! the purpose of bragging is to explain one’s success. I found out in the working world (or more like for my case), one really needs to be kiasu in bragging to get noticed (being unnoticed in work is bad!). But then there’s the trick to brag w/o seeming like you’re bragging. Or better still, or to have someone brag for you which is quite susah la. But I have to say. Bragging gives you a temporary boost of confidence that ‘Hey, I’m not as crap as I think I am!’
nadz, explaining one’s success is very vital in the working world. Whenever I feel down or demotivated, I usually try to brag something on my achievement so as to drive my spirit up. At least it work for me.
Nice post Daniel. I think that humility is the key. It’s important to brag about your successes, but not to the point of brashness or arrogance. Keeping your accomplishments in context while bragging about them is important, i.e. “I increased sales by 75% in my time with the company, but a lot of that has to do with the good relationship I had with my coworkers.” In this way you’re deflecting the arrogance but proving another positive about yourself; you work well with others.
Again, good post. Congrats on your success so far.
Rob: I like the way you put it “with the good relationship with my coworkers”. This not only prove that you are a goal-getter but also a team player. Reminds me of paying more attention to others and giving them the proper acknowledgment.
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