Less than a Minute Life Lesson-2410 Promotion and Character

Q&A with a Monk-5-Monotony

D- Disciple M- Monk

D: - I feel Monotonous

M: - can you be specific

D: - My Job is Monotonous

M:- Why do you think  your job is monotonous?

D: -I am doing the same thing

M: -For how many years?

D:- Nearly a decade

M:- Ok. Let me give you a situation. One of your friends has been diagnosed for block in the heart and he needs to undergo a surgery. Your friend has two   surgeons in the mind:

1.  A surgeon with a decade of experience and who charges few lakhs.

2. A surgeon with two decades of experience and who charges a lakh or two more than surgeon 1.

If your friend is asking your opinion to select a doctor, whom will you recommend?

D:-I will refer surgeon 2

M:- Why will you do that?

D:- Surgeon 2 has more experience and would have attended more cases.

M:- Can you define surgeon 2 in simple words.

D:- He is an expert.

M:- Why do you call him an expert?

D:-His experience as well his volume speaks.

M:- When others do a similar job and stay in the same field, we perceive them as experts, but when we do the same job for  many years, we call it monotonous.

Many of us are failing to see the making of expert in us.

D:- But doctors jobs are different, they are responsible for human life.

M: -So does that mean that they should not feel Monotonous?

D:- No I didn't mean that

M: - Remember every job has something or other to do with human beings. Let me give you an example:

A car manufacturer who is working in a shop floor for is responsible for human safety in the car.

A drug manufacturer who mixes ingredients is responsible for recovery from illness.

A Gun manufacturer is responsible for soldier’s life.

A school teacher who teaches the same subject is responsible for building a strong foundation.

There are many such examples. We need to look into bigger​picture of our job to appreciate the power of repetition.

D:- Do you mean, I should see who benefits from my job?

M:- It is not only about others benefits, look into how you will benefit out of it and list down the skills and knowledge you had gained over a period of time, that will help you rewrite your CV.

Re-look into appreciations you had received that will help you understand the efforts you had put.

Reflect on the days when you saw the existing job as a dream job, which will help you appreciate the efforts you had put to reach your destination.

M: Remember, Don't let the monotony in you to kill the expert in you

D:- Thank you.

M.L.Narendra Kumar