I found this parable in one of my favorite blogs. Read on. My take is - like most of us, we often neglect to "upgrade our life skills" as we journey. Some reasons out lack of time. Others argue its because of lack of interest. Still, most find they are comfortable and would find change to be altering what was once a comforting tool to use.
However, examining a few sports personalities here and there showed even the most prolific of them needed a re-tool. Tiger Woods for one. Imagine! A Worldclass athlete still not satisfied with his swing!
Even Michael Jordan's life, long considered the greatest basketball player of all time, is littered with anecdotes of consistently improving his free throws practice after practice after practice.
What more with ordinary people like us wading thru the rudiments of daily life!
The Parable Goes:
Miao Zhen was a scholar of the Song Dynasty ( 960 - 1279 AD) who had previously ranked fourth in the civil service exams. When there was a new court examination for new vacancies, he applied. The Prime Minister informed him, “ you have been an official for so many years. Before you take the exam, might as well spend some moments to review your literary skills, and some of the classics.”
Miao Zhen quite confidently replied, “ Could an old midwife who’s been doing it for 30 years ever wrap a baby upside down?”
After the exam, he found out that he had indeed failed. When the prime minister met him, he smiled to Miao, and ask, “Miao, how could you have wrapped the baby upside down?
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