Engine Vs Horn

Original Post Date - 21 Jan 2011

Today, while riding on my bike on Pune road, I realized that “No matter how powerful your engine is, you must have good loud horn to move forward on Pune roads”.

How true this is in life also, isn’t it? No matter how qualified, experienced or capable you are, until you have good (self) marketing skills you can not get what you deserve.

We are living in modern world where that sharp eye sight which could see the difference between real and unreal is not there. Therefore, we need look polished to look good. J

I remember one childhood story about the old man and his sons…it was something like this..

There was a wood merchant living is small town of India. He was having good sense of which wood is good or bad and which is precious like sandalwood. Unfortunately, none of his sons were in this business. During his last days when he felt that he may not live longer, he called his sons and told that after he dies, he should be burnt using the sandalwood logs kept on the roof and remaining wood can be sold and they can share the money.

After few days when he passed away, his obedient sons went on roof and tried to find the sandalwood. They saw there are two types of woods on roof, one were in large quantity and in very raw form and another one was smaller in quantity but in finished and polished form. All of them saw each other and questioned which one is the sandalwood?

Based on the logic that our father must be keeping only better quality wood in fished format, they picked up the finished form of wood and used that for burning the merchant’s body.

After few days, they called one buyer to see the wood; he immediately found that which one is real sandalwood. They realized that how great there father was as he left tons of sandalwood for them. However, they could not fulfill his last wish.

So the moral of the story, be presentable!!

Sanjay Sonar