3 monks and no water to Drink
The Three Monks is about a young monk who lives a simple life in a temple on top of a hill. He has one daily task of getting two buckets of water up the hill. He tries to share the job with another monk, but the carrying pole is only long enough for one bucket. The arrival of a third monk prompts everyone to expect that someone else will take on the chore. Therefore, no one fetches water though everybody is thirsty. At night, a rat comes to scrounge and then knocks the candle holder, leading to a devastating fire in the temple. The three monks finally unite together and make a concerted effort to put out the fire.
Following that they understand the old saying “unity is strength” and the temple never lacks water again.
3. Productivity improvement because of active participation
4. Involvement of all organization to achieve common goal
5. Framework of the work contain and its proper distribution
Three Monks Story and My learnings from it
Here I will analyze the learning from a very famous Chinese short story called “The Three Monks”.
The Three Monks is about a young monk who lives a simple life in a temple on top of a hill. He has one daily task of getting two buckets of water up the hill. He tries to share the job with another monk, but the carrying pole is only long enough for one bucket. The arrival of a third monk prompts everyone to expect that someone else will take on the chore. Therefore, no one fetches water though everybody is thirsty. At night, a rat comes to scrounge and then knocks the candle holder, leading to a devastating fire in the temple. The three monks finally unite together and make a concerted effort to put out the fire.
Following that they understand the old saying “unity is strength” and the temple never lacks water again.
1. Cultivate dispositions
Though the curriculum includes enormous volumes of rote memorization, the focus is not to acquire specific knowledge, but for practitioners to develop what we have called “questing and connecting” dispositions. The monk’s goal is to cultivate a disciplined but also “pliant” mind, capable of rapid learning and measurable accomplishment. Monks are encouraged to constantly seek and explore knowledge; for example, many monks are surprisingly well-read in neuroscience. In addition to learning from high masters, the monastery emphasizes peer-to-peer learning as a shared social practice to foster a culture in which certain dispositions more naturally arise.
Though dispositions are difficult to cultivate, they can be much more valuable than specific skills or knowledge, particularly in times of rapid change. The faster change happens, the shorter the shelf-life of any knowledge or skill becomes. And while knowledge is often domain specific, dispositions apply across domains.
Conflict Management
There conflict was lead nowhere but just to increase the work. They resolved the conflict and the distribution of work led to no scarcity of water.
3. Productivity improvement because of active participation
4. Involvement of all organization to achieve common goal
5. Framework of the work contain and its proper distribution
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