Once a street-seller of hand-fans passed by the Landlord's house. He claimed "The fans I sell are unique, durable and would last for one hundred years if used properly." He boasted that no one had ever seen such fans before. So the landlord purchased the costliest hand-fan.
However, after few days landlord found the fan of inferior quality. So he called the seller and said furiously, "The fan you sold me is very cheap, it began to fall apart within three days and was totally ruined before the week ended."
The fan-seller said " But Sir, these fans are guaranteed to last for a hundred years. It is possible that your servants did not use it in the proper manner."
The landlord asked, "While selling the fan, why didn't you tell me how to use it?"
The seller replied, "But, my lord, you didn't ask me. I assumed that your servants know how to use it."
"All right", The landlord said, "now tell me how to use this fan"
The seller replied, "To use this kind of fan the user must keep the fan steady and move only the head. The fan should not be shaken at all !"
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Everyone has different perspectives. Perspective is our angle of looking at an object that gives us partial reality and not the complete one. Difference in perspectives is probably the most treacherous communication roadblock. Everyone is convinced about the validity of their own world view.
Our perspective is built by the position we hold or the role we play which makes it difficult to understand others who have different angle of looking at the same thing. Husbands and wives have different view-points. Boss and employee look at the same thing from different angles. Working women and house-wives can't see few things same way. Parents can't understand their own children and vice-versa.
Tahnks.
Rushiraj Waghela.
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Story credit: G.Francis Xavier’s The World’s Best Inspiring Stories
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ReplyDeleteDifference in Perspective. Truly, the only source of communication failure. Shrewd people use this gap to fulfill their selfish motives as was done by the seller in this story, while wise people use it for the betterment of situation, like Birbal did, in the story from previous post.
ReplyDeleteSo, is this gap good or bad? Having my own perspective makes me judgmental, harsh, stiff, stubborn and hard-headed while not having it makes me naive, fool, easy to use, spine-less and manipulable.
This is very crucial. Perspective is born by the world we live in and when we surpass our world we still create new world depending on these perspectives which are foundations of our thinking and character. :)
If we start looking into perspective that others might have, and think a bit before acting upon our own perspective, miracles would be the only word that will define the changes in our life.
It is just the experience which will truly justify how much should one open up to other perspective.
Then again, this is my perspective, my opinion, which might not be true for everyone.
Thanks for the blog and sharing these nice pieces of thought.
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You nicely connected it with the previous post. Thanks for giving it a new direction...
ReplyDeleteOHHH..GOODNESS SIR...AFTER READING THIS ..I REMEMBERED UR STORIES WHICH WERE TOLD BY U IN THE CLASS
ReplyDeletegood one.
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