Complainers - No. 14. The Oxen and the Wheels - The Essential Aesop? - Back to Basics Abridgment Series
Gregg Zegarelli Esq.
Managing Shareholder at Technology & Entrepreneurial Ventures Law Group, PC
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci. Adopted by Steve Jobs.
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Oxen?were pulling a heavily loaded wagon.?They used all their strength?to pull the wagon but never complained.
The Wheels?creaked and groaned at every turn.?The Oxen, pulling the load?through the mud, endured the work quietly.
Finally, the Oxen cried?out “Silence!?Why should you Wheels continue to complain about doing your job??We are pulling the weight, not you, and your useless?noise only adds to the load.”
Moral of the Story: They who complain?most tend to be those who suffer?least. Complaining over the inevitable is a child's indulgence that only adds misery. Whining does not resolve.
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Introduction ?- The Essential Aesop -?Epilogue
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Why We Loved It: This fable reminds us to do our jobs steadfastly, and not to whine, which has no benefit. Whining simply reinforces a negative in our own minds and burdens others with negativity. Conveying a problem to seek a solution is not whining. Being "concerned" is a cerebral process, being "worried" is an emotional process, which are implemented very differently. Or, as famously said by Steve Earle:
"Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator."
"You whining adult-children, and the new-math socio-psychologists who tell you that it's okay to have riotous tantrums and to make everyone endure you. Like the infant who cries incessantly for the mother's teat, you pray to god with a never-ending give-me, give-me, give-me, and then replace god with government and society. Always looking for a child's allowance.?God is dead.?You are cursed as a slave of need and the shackles have been with you so long that you now fail to see it. You have the key to arise from the average and the normal, and to achieve the greatness that you have in self. Find your own unique power within and become, the Super Man."
~[Eg.: "Nietzschesque" , *grz ]
Gird up your loins now, like a man; I will question you, and you tell me the answers! ...
Do you give the horse his strength, and endow his neck with splendor? Do you make the steed to quiver while his thunderous snorting spreads terror?
He jubilantly paws the plain and rushes in his might against the weapons. He laughs at fear and cannot be deterred; he turns not back from the sword. Around him rattles the quiver, flashes the spear and the javelin.
Frenzied and trembling, he devours the ground; he holds not back at the sound of the trumpet, but, at each blast, he cries, Aha!
God, Book of Job 38:3
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*?Gregg Zegarelli , Esq., earned both his Bachelor of Arts Degree and his Juris Doctorate from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His dual major areas of study were History from the College of Liberal Arts and Accounting from the Business School (qualified to sit for the CPA examination), with dual minors in Philosophy and Political Science. He has enjoyed Adjunct Professorships in the Duquesne University Graduate Leadership Master Degree Program (The Leader as Entrepreneur; Developing Leadership Character Through Adversity) and the University of Pittsburgh Law School (The Anatomy of a Deal). He is admitted to various courts throughout the United States of America.
Gregg Zegarelli , Esq.,?is Managing Shareholder of?Technology & Entrepreneurial Ventures Law Group, PC .?Gregg is nationally rated as "superb" and has more than 35 years of experience working with entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes, including startups,?INC. 500, and publicly traded companies.?He is author of?One: The Unified Gospel of Jesus ,?and?The Business of Aesop ? article series, and co-author with his father,?Arnold Zegarelli , of?The Essential Aesop: For Business, Managers, Writers and Professional Speakers .?Gregg is a frequent lecturer, speaker and faculty for a variety of educational and other institutions.?
? 2013 Arnold Zegarelli? and?Gregg Zegarelli, Esq . ?Gregg can be contacted through?LinkedIn .?Arnold Zegarelli ?can be contacted through?Facebook .
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