Watch New York Times bestselling author Mark Albion’s 3-minute animated movie Based on Mark’s book, More Than Money. “The Good Life” 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. … Free Range Studios MBA Business School Career Planning Money Mark Albion Fisherman The Good Life Parable Success Contribution
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Big business has NOTHING to do with technological development. They are only the middle man that put it in the market to make money. Not all reap the benefits as well. The system feeds off the middle and lower classes with debt. So, your wrong.
nice message
this video reminds me of a work i got from school the other day!
Let’s change the fishing industry!
“Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime”
A little fix. And I wholeheartedly agree with you. I hope you won’t judge me based on my username, seeing as you are open-minded.
really good
I think this is about quality over quantity. Quality of life instead of over abundance of it.
I think this is about quality over quantity. Quality of life instead of over abundance of it. Give a man a fish, and he will eat one day. Teach a man to fish, he will feed his family. I think that too many people rely on money for material needs. when in fact, the essence of life is not found in materials, but truly in our love for our loved ones and our own self. I see that fisher man as one that is grounded, and in touch with his real needs; not in touch with the needs society wants for him.
beautiful
thank you.
I don’t get it. In his imagined cannery business, he could bring fish to markets that didn’t have them before. He could help families store food in a way that wouldn’t spoil within a day. That and more.
Don’t get me wrong, the story is lovely, but if we all sat around sipping wine and playing the guitar, would we have computers, electricity, and cars right? I mean, let’s not take big business for granted, because we all reap the benefits. That is, if you like being able to go to a supermarket.
Thank you.
I loved the simplicity of the story for such a profound message.
amazing video!!!
fantastic film! amazing!
Thank you. Most appreciated, to be appreciated. . . . mark
Let me tell something about this video: you should go on doing this kind of stuff, cause it touches so much and it is so vital, so important to hear these messages from time to time! I openly cried the first time I saw it and I thank you that! God bless you!
think a little guys. . . . lisoka is right. . . . all of you say you agree with the video. . . but is it what you will really do? the good life comes with feeling that you have achieved what you wanted to achieve. . . and you will never be happy until you do so
Yes, I wrote it in the late 1990s; researched it this past year and found a very similar story was written in German in 1962. So if you heard it before 1996, it probably was “Anecdote to Work;” after that, it came from my writings which were posted on over 100,000 sites that we could find over the past dozen or so years. Free Range did a great job of making it come alive, with beautiful watercolors by Reuben deLuna. All our good stories are archetypal, with many roots of shared humanity.
Nice video – I’ve been telling this story (pretty much the same version) for years without realising it came from you.
As you said in the first paragraph, yes, I was just trying to get us to take a step back and think about “why we do what we do” before just simply going ahead and doing it, with values imbedded in what appears to be a simple act of building a business, but actually is laden with values. I wanted us to consider what success means to each of us, knowing myself that I could never be the fisherman, but maybe a “blend” of the two models, with varying priorities at different times in life.
Yeah thanks Mark Albion/Free Range for this great video. Anyone trying to impose political ideologies on this is really stretching things! Isn’t it a simple parable about having some balance in life and smelling the roses a bit?
Let’s face it, the Laissez Faireists would have sold the fishery off to some foreign longliner who left after all but destroying it; the Marxists, sold the fish and invested in huge iron statues. . surely achieving some balance is the message!
that is an absurd argument.
well, if the Scientist is passionate about what he is doing, will keep the job. If he is unhappy and earning just money after long studies, he would be better be a fisherman if he likes to. Society will see a happier person, with less income that will use it for good fish instead of wasting it for useless goods. No Marx involved.
I love this. thanks to the creators
to Zantrua – I understand your point, but this parable should not be taken so literally. It’s about simplifying our lives, and then perhaps we won’t have “over-fished” our waters, and polluted our Earth, so that the human race won’t parish along with the Earth. I don’t think anyone would consider that progress.
of course, capitalism is evil and repressive, and the way to happiness is by being a marxist. . . you know, if you pick, say a scientist, and tell them, “oh, no, you should go fish instead” then society will not progress.