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”.

Before I go further I would suggest you to watch the video of the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rolBiHfWokY

                                      

Three monks is a famous story in China. On the high mountain there is a temple. There is a long distance from the temple to the river which is located at the foot of the mountain. One monk used to live there. He had to walk a long way to fetch water, but he did it everyday. One day, another monk appeared in the temple. Now who’s to fetch water became a regular argument between them. Luckily they found a solution : they carried water together. Then the 3rd monk became a member of the temple, which brought complexity, because they all thought the others should go and get water. They suffered from thirst, but nobody still did not want to move until … a mouse ate the candle, and the flame started to burn down their temple. They worked together and transported water from the river and finally saved their temple.

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.

My Learning :
1. Sharing of Responsibility
2. Bureaucracy
3. Continuous Innovation and Drastic Innovation
4. Productivity improvement because of active participation
5. Involvement of all organization to achieve common goal
6. Framework of the work contain and its proper distribution