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Rockefeller’s advice – 3

Rockefeller’s advice – 3

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 Auto-generated transcript:In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to God, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the messengers and messengers of God, Muhammad and the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and all his companions. From the book of John D. Rockefeller's advice to his son, the nine points. We have seen the first two. First of all, first point was hardship is your greatest teacher. Number two was failure plus persistence equals breakthrough. Third one, he said, love your work or live in misery. Love your work or live in misery. Now, he used to tell this famous story of Christopher Wren, the great architect and builder who was pivotal in rebuilding London. After the great fire of 1666, which involved designing 52 churches and St. Paul's Cathedral. He was an English architect and scientist and mathematician who was known for his work in the English Baroque style. And his legacy is connected to the new look of the city of London. He designed many of the most important structures like the Royal Observatory and the Hampton Port Palace and so on. Now, St. Paul's Cathedral is considered to be his masterpiece. And the design of the cathedral is a prime example of his architectural work and his architectural genius. The story of Christopher Wren goes like this. That he was at the site supervising the work when there were three stone masons who were breaking stones. Sculptors or stone masons who were breaking stones. So he asked them, he said, what are you doing? So the first of them, he said, you know, what can I say? I'm just breaking stones. So it was something like a punishment. This is a painful thing. I mean, why the hell do I have to do this? That kind of a mental attitude. I'm breaking rocks. He asked the second one. He said, I'm earning a living. So he was, you know, a step better than that. So he's not seeing the work as punishment. He's seeing the work as at least getting him some benefit. And he asked the third one, he said, what are you doing? He said, I'm building a cathedral. Now, this is, if you think about this, there's three people doing the same exact work. But one sees it as something which is a punishment. He'd rather not be doing it. The second one sees some meaning in it, but there's not really meaning in the work itself. But in what the work can give him, which is a paycheck at the end of the month or whatever period. But the third one is seeing that work as something which, you know, is a punishment. And he said, I'm doing this. It's a Migration Act, right? The fourth one sees something which reflects himself, which is his legacy to the world. When I was in the Plantations in 1991, 1993, we were planning to leave. And we wanted to, we lived in Kerala or the border of Tamil Nadu Kerala and that place had a beautiful teacote. So we thought we'd, you know, make some household furniture and take it with us. So we sent him back to马 Myanmar and told him that the旨 We asked, we got this carpenter, this Kerala carpenter, very famous for their absolutely fabulous work. So we got this carpenter, he came with an assistant and he told us how much wood we needed and so on. So we got the wood to make a dining set, so a dining table and six chairs. And he gave us a list of materials. So I told him, I said, you know, let me get all the material for you and then you can make, you can do the work. And he was on a daily, per day wage. So I didn't, for whatever reason, I didn't give it to him as a contract work, but I gave it to him on wages. So he was going through this work. Now he, one of the things he gave me was seven grains of sandpaper, his list, seven grains of sandpaper. So I'm thinking to myself, well, this. This is nice. This guy is going to sit around and he's going to be sanding this wood day after day and I'm paying for that. So I, obviously I didn't say that to him, but I said to him, I said, why do you need
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