What are you going to do with your lucky lottery ticket? That’s a question every MBA faces. A lot of time and money has been invested in you, and once you graduate you’re supposed to cash that ticket in for as much money and status as you can. Your parents and peers expect it. And you may feel that there’s really no other choice. You can’t risk wasting that expensive education. It’s the safe thing to do. Isn’t it? Mark Albion doesn’t think so. In “The Good Life”, a movie by FreeRange Graphics, Mark takes you to a chance meeting between an MBA and a fisherman on a small island. As the MBA tries to teach the fisherman about business, the fisherman teaches him about life.
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Me too. And hopefully leads to conversation about what is success and why we do what we do. . . before doing it!
This story make me smile
Brilliant!
So, oh, so true. . .
WE forget; this system is ruining us! We forget.
Reuben de Luna at Free Range Studios did the illustrations.
Feel free to send it around. thanks, mark
so beautiful.
The movie’s intent is not to glorify the fisherman or demonize the MBA (me!). It is meant to show two value systems and as done in the More Than Money book, give you a multi-dimensional way of measuring success, in which you choose what works for you. In fact, in the teaching note for the film, I mention that I could NEVER be the fisherman. I’d go nuts! But the point is self-awareness: how do you measure success and are you spending your life energy aligned with that.
well done!
what a beautiful story, thank you!
What the fisherman has is a community–friends–who will support him and his family in times of need. We tend to think “I need X money, in case this or that happens. ” What you need is yourself and a community in case. . . In my life, I have made decisions that result in making less money, but have friends and a community who when necessary are happy to support me. Does your “security” come from a stash of money or a tribe of friends and family happy to share with you and your well being? “Ubuntu. .
Unless of course the fisherman already had an MBA himself.
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Is what I liked most about it was that it makes me realize how money has control over our lives. We make ourselves sick to make money. Even at the expense of making others miserable, including ourselves just to try to find peace. Because that is what money is, our peace. The fisherman realized that. But in todays world, it means if his air condition, refigerator or his car breaks, then his family will suffer. We have to earn a living somehow, we just don’t need to have millions to enjoy life.
Glad you enjoyed. Please sent it around to friends. Love ot hear what they think.
I love it.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks; explained in More Than Money footnote: I’ve since seen this parable in many forms to which my monthly readers have directed my attention, so it is clear that others have written similar stories. The earliest I’ve
found is Anekdote von der Senkung der Arbeitsmoral (Anecdote to Reduce the Work Ethic),
written in 1963 by the German Nobel Prize laureate Heinrich Böll, nearly identical but used differently. A similar tale apparently also appears in a Buddhist story and in Russian folklore.
well already posted it, but it isn`t mark`s story it`s from Heirich Böll named “Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral” and he wrote it in 1963
the point is that it’s MARK’s story! Pretty amazing how far it has traveled.
great. I remember you telling this story at SVN one time. And now I’m thinking about talking a walk, consider my options
if you heard the story more than 10 years ago, would love to know the source. glad you enjoyed, mark
an old mentor/friend of mine told me this parable many years ago . . . i told to it to my father years after that as a way to explain the life path i was choosing . . . such a simple yet powerful story . . . so wonderful to see it in film form, thank you : )