Read this article to find out if you are potato or an egg ?
Yesterday I came across an impacting story.
One of my connection told me that he is unemployed for more than one year, he left his last job as a project manager to join an international company with much better condition.
He went back to his home country to process the work visa when the new employee informed him that the position was cancelled.
28 years unemployed and living with his parents is not a comfortable situation.
After one year struggle and getting no answer to hundreds applications, he became depressed and couldn’t find the energy to continue searching for a job.
I found no words to console him then I told his the following story:
Samir’s father placed an egg, a potato, and some tea leaves in three separate vessels with boiling water. He asked Samir to keep an eye on the vessels for ten minutes. Once these ten minutes were over, he asked Samir to peel the potato, peel the egg and strain the tea leaves. Samir was left puzzled.
His father explained, ‘Each of these items was but in the same circumstance of being in a pot of boiling water. See how they’ve responded differently. The potato is now soft, the egg is now hard, and the tea has changed the water itself.
We are all like this. When adversity calls, we respond in exactly the way we have.
Success in Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it
What’s your opinion on this?
Clyde & Co
6 年Challenges and obstacles in life should not be taken negatively but the proper approach to it instead is to look at the brighter side of it. Because, in reality, howsoever hard a situation becomes but if you choose to take it positively, everything will still fall into its right places. Besides, any bad situation (the challenges/obstacles) one has to undergo, will not be given to him by the supreme power up above, who created it all, if He knows that that individual can’t handle it ??
Subcontract Manager at McDermott International, Ltd
6 年I think, we can generalize it, being humen we are programmed to react to situations the same way. As did the egg, potato and tea leaves as they have inbuilt instinct to react this way. We have never seen an egg reacting differently when put in water and boiled. Not disagreeing that one must evaluate the circumstances and react judicially, but don't bend backward to be an egg if you are a potato.? Regards Asif
Reliability | Inspection | RBI | NDT | Mechanical Integrity | RCA | Welding | Corrosion Management | Quality Assurance
6 年Today understood why Chinese and some other Asian nationals value Tea so much. Be the Tea.
Gerente de operaciones e I+D
6 年Impressive story.. I decided to be a tea leave.
Chef de Ventes Afrique du Nord
6 年I would like to be a tea leave but I am afraid I am more potato than egg.