The only requirement
Once upon a time, there was a king who made a particularly difficult rule: no one was allowed to turn the dishes at the king's feast, but only the top part of the food, or else he would be killed.
Once, a foreign envoy came to visit, and the king gave him a banquet. The waiter brought a fish with spices, and the envoy turned the fish over, ignorant of the rules of the country. The ministers shouted in unison: "King, you have been insulted, he has turned over the fish, he must be executed." The king said to his envoys, "You have broken our rules, and if I do not put you to death, you will be ridiculed by the people." However, for the sake of the friendly relations between your country and my country, you can make a request to me before you die, and I will certainly fulfill any other request except to avoid death. ”
The envoy thought for a moment and said, "In that case, I will have to wait until I die, but I ask the king to gouge out the eyes of everyone who sees me flipping fish before I die." The ministers were shocked when they heard this, looked at each other, and stood up one by one and swore to the heavens, saying that they had not seen the envoys turn over the fish.
When the envoy heard this, he smiled and said to the king, "Since no one has seen it, it is all right, and let us continue to eat." ”
Wisdom is the key to solving difficult problems.
Camel dung with fighters
During World War II, Rooney worked as a logistics officer in the British Air Force. The army stipulated that the leather seats of the fighters should be maintained with camel dung, which made Rooney distressed because the smell of feces was so unpleasant.
On this day, Rooney's father came to visit the army, and his father, who had participated in the First World War, saw that his son was busy wiping the seat with camel dung, so he asked suspiciously: "Why are you still using camel dung to maintain leather?"Rooney replied with a straight face: "It's the rule." ”
My father smiled and said, "When we were fighting in the desert areas of North Africa, there were a lot of supplies that needed to be transported by camels, but the leather goods used to control camels were made of cowhide, and the camels would not leave when they smelled it. So, someone thought of using camel dung to wipe the leather goods, so as to cover the smell of cowhide, and sure enough, the camel obeyed. Thirty years later, you have applied this method to the plane, which is ridiculous!After hearing this, Rooney was skeptical, and immediately went to look through the historical materials, and the result was just as his father said.
Passing on outdated experience without thinking about it is like blindly using camel dung with "special effects", which will be laughable and generous.