Recently one of my friends sent me a 30 second video by CEO of Coca Cola – Mr. Bryan Dyson, which is like a story – “Imagine life as a game in which you are judging some five balls in the air. You name them – Work, Family, Health, Friends & Spirit and you’re keeping all of these balls in the air. You will soon understand that Work is a rubber ball and if you drop, it will bounce back! But the other four balls – Family, Health, Friends & Spirit are made of glass! If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.”
Very good thought, indeed! Moral or crux of the story is – give time to other four balls, apart from Work! I had earlier also received a speech by Narayanmurthy on the same line. I even remember Dhirubhai Ambani having said that ‘anybody who works after six is a duffer’…
My only reservation is that, it would have been simply great if Bryan had said it when he started his career, may be as an apprentice or Narayanmurthy had said it, when he started Infosys with a few friends or Dhirubhai, when he was a gas station attendant in Aden!
Make no mistake – it is not a sarcastic statement but the stark reality of life according to me, and that is why I believe in the idiom – “There are no gains without pains”… Because, somebody will have to pay for somebody’s lunch!
Now, if I rename the five balls as mentioned by Bryan to five human senses and add one more ball called Money, then I remember a very famous quote by Somerset Maugham – “Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five, without it!”
So, moral of the story is – “Be nice to people till you make a million and thereafter, people will be nice to you” (and your statements will also be used as Quotes!). Till such time, don’t get frustrated and work hard (not hardly) with the same concentration and vigil, singing the song – “arre bhaiya - aal izz well...” lol
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