The real life
There was once a
businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small brazillian village. As he
sat, he saw a brazillian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having
caught quite few big fish.
The businessman
was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so
many fish?”
The fisherman
replied, “oh, just a short while.”
“Then why don’t
you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.
“This is enough
to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.
The businessman
then asked, “so, what do you do for the rest of the day?”
The fisherman
replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch
a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap
with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink –
we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”
The businessman
offered a suggestion to the fisherman. “I am a PhD in business management. I
could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should
spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have
saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon
you will be able to afford to by more boats, set up your own company, your own
production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will
have moved out of this village and to sao paulo, where you can set up HQ to
manage your other branches.”
The fisherman
continues, “and after that?”
The businessman
laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and
when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the stock
Exchange, and you will be rich.
The fisherman
asks, “and after that?”
The businessman
says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the
fishing village, wake up early in the morning catch a few fish, then return
home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when
evening comes, you can join your buddies far a drink, play the guitar, sing and
dance throughout the night!”
The fisherman
was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing
now?”
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