The Secret To Success — an eye fixed fixed opening story

Ranjeet Singh
3 min readMay 27, 2021

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Once upon a time there was a young man who worked at a factory his mentor an old technician taught him to speak less do more and never stop developing his skills in every aspect of the factory’s operations ten years later the old man retired and therefore the young man became a technician himself he continued to undertake to his work with an equivalent dedication and diligence as he was taught at some point he visited his mentor the old man saw that he seemed unhappy and asked what was troubling him the young man sighed and poured his heart out I even have been following your instructions exactly of these years regardless of what i work on i shut one’s mouth and specialist in the work i do know I even have done good work on the factory and that i have learned all the talents which will be learned there what don’t “> i do not understand is that the blokes who do not have my experience or capabilities have all been promoted while I’m still making as little as i did before once I was your apprentice the old man asked are you positive that you simply became indispensable to the factory the young man nodded yes the old man paced back and forth to think after a short time he turned to the young man must request the time off using whatever reason you wish it’s time for you to offer yourself an opportunity the young man was surprised by this recommendation but the more he considered it the more it made sense he thanked his teacher and left quickly to form a time-off request when he returned to work after his time off the manager called him into the office to inform him that things didn’t go well at the factory while he was gone others encountered many problems that normally would be handled by him and that they had no idea the way to solve them realizing his importance the manager decided to market him to the position of senior technician to thank him and encourage him to stay up the great work the young man was grateful for his mentor’s wisdom surely he thought this was the key to success from that time on whenever the young man felt like he deserved quite what he was getting he would take each day off when he came back subsequent day things would improve to his satisfaction this pattern continued for months at some point the young man found that he was blocked from going into the factory much to his shock he acknowledged that his employment was terminated he couldn’t believe it not knowing what else to try to he went back to ascertain his mentor to try to figure out how things had gone so wrong why did I lose my job he asked with wounded pride did I not do everything as you instructed actually you probably did not because you heard only half the lesson the old man shook his head you understood directly that nobody pays any attention to a light-weight -weight -weight bulb that’s always ………. Read more

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