Professor of Philosophy comes into the audience and lay out on the table a few different things.
When lectures begin, he silently takes a large, empty jar and fills it with large stones.
Then asks:
- Was this jar full?
- Yes! - Agree to the students.
Then the professor picked up a box with small pebbles and poured it into the same jar. He chatted the little jar. Pebbles, of course, filled the open areas between the stones.
He again asked the students:
- Was this jar full?
They laughed and agreed that the jar was full.
Then, the professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand fills the remaining space.
Once again, the professor asked the students if the jar was full? Answer: Yes, and this time unequivocally, it was full.
Then from under the table he had pulled out two cans of beer and poured them into the jar. The students laughed.
- Now, - the professor said, - I want you to understand it is your life. Stones is an important things - your family, your friends, your health, your children. If everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. Pebbles is the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else - it's just little things in life. If you pour the sand into the jar at first, there is no place for the pebbles. The same means for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you never find a place for things that are important to you. Pay attention to things that are critical to your happiness.
Take care, first about the rocks, it really matters. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.
Then a student raised his hand and asked the professor:
- How was important the beer?
The professor smiled.
- I'm glad you asked me about it. I did it just to prove to you that, no matter how your life is busy, there is always place for a couple of beers.
When lectures begin, he silently takes a large, empty jar and fills it with large stones.
Then asks:
- Was this jar full?
- Yes! - Agree to the students.
Then the professor picked up a box with small pebbles and poured it into the same jar. He chatted the little jar. Pebbles, of course, filled the open areas between the stones.
He again asked the students:
- Was this jar full?
They laughed and agreed that the jar was full.
Then, the professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand fills the remaining space.
Once again, the professor asked the students if the jar was full? Answer: Yes, and this time unequivocally, it was full.
Then from under the table he had pulled out two cans of beer and poured them into the jar. The students laughed.
- Now, - the professor said, - I want you to understand it is your life. Stones is an important things - your family, your friends, your health, your children. If everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. Pebbles is the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else - it's just little things in life. If you pour the sand into the jar at first, there is no place for the pebbles. The same means for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you never find a place for things that are important to you. Pay attention to things that are critical to your happiness.
Take care, first about the rocks, it really matters. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.
Then a student raised his hand and asked the professor:
- How was important the beer?
The professor smiled.
- I'm glad you asked me about it. I did it just to prove to you that, no matter how your life is busy, there is always place for a couple of beers.
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