One day a tortoise met an elephant, who said angrily "get out of my way, weak tortoise,I might step on you!" The tortoise was not afraid and stayed where it was. The elephant angrily stepped on him but couldn't do any harm to him.The tortoise then said "don't feel so surprised, I am as strong as you are." The elephant just laughed. The tortoise didn't like the elephant behaviour and invited him the next day to meet at the hill to prove his power. The next day early in the morning, the tortoise run down to hill to the river, where he met the hippopotamus drinking water. The tortoise said "Mr Hippo, you are the weakest animal I have ever encountered before!!I bet i am as strong as you are." The hyppopotamus laughed and finally agreed. The tortoise produced a long rope and asked the hippo to hold it in his mouth and to not start pulling until he hears the word "GO!". The tortoise went to the other side of the hill where he met the elephant and gave him the other end of the rope and asked him to start pulling once hear "Go". The tortoise run and hide and shouted "Go". The elephant and hippo started pulling and pulling but no one can do move the other because they are of equal strength. The elephant thought that he was pulling the tortoise and the hippo also had the same idea. They both agreed that The tortoise is as stronger as they are. The rule of today is: "Never do what others can do for you better". The tortoise intelligently made use of Hippopotamus strength to prove to the elephant that he is as strong as him.
Life is short, there is a lot of knowledge you should gain, life is not a life without knowledge. You should use other peoples' knowledge. You should go and ask them directly if you already know they have answers for you. Don't waste time browsing the internet or reading books many hours. what you want to know is already in the brain of other people next to you. They have already wasted a lot of time to get that answer for you so just go ahead and use it.
This would save you a lot of time to advance your knowledge in more areas. You should be like a machine that collects infomation and knowledge from peopls' minds.
Use the past, a store of knowledge and wisdom. Isaac Newton once said "Standing on the shoulders of giants." He meant that in making his discoveries he had built on the achievements of others. He had many genius and smart people working for him.
Also there is a well known proverb saying "Never re-invent the wheel!" meaning use the wheel but concentrate forces on improving the motorization or on the design; Don't aste time thinking about how to create a wheel, what dimensions what material to be used... this is already done for you. Thnk about advancing rapidely, use what you have out of the box this is your gift.
Why some popliticians are very famous, they have delivered some high quality speeches. if they wrote those words themselves, I bet that they won't won any single vote. But the used the writers' skills and perfection in writing and all what they did is reading the sentences. At the end, the politicians are the famous ones and writers forgotten.
You should do as the tortoise did, you can challenge the stronger and make sure you will find one thousand way to beat him. Look for the most intelligent people to work with. Look for a job whithin a well reputed company, you will see how much appreciation you will get from your freinds. Always start from what other people achieved don't start from scratch, focus your energy in innovating.
If you think you can do all the work yourself, then you will not get that far, believe me. other people will take over what you started and will generate benefits from it. This is how it works. Find people with skills and creativity that you lack, join forces with them to be more powerful. Their success will be yours.
The rule is: "Always look for and use the wisdom, knowledge and hard work of other people as a double force that pushes you toward success quickly. This would save you more time and energy while providing you with assistance. You would look very brilliant and efficient. Never do by yourself what others can do for you".
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Be the one who select the environment and freinds, it is your gift to success. Use it!
