You don’t have to be acknowledged all the time. Sometimes it’s a good idea to keep your mouth shut while someone else takes credit for your ideas, don’t you think?
You Don’t Have To
An old Indian story:
A talkative turtle overheard two hunters say that they were planning to catch turtles the very next day. When the hunters left, the turtle asked two cranes to help him escape. “Beautiful white birds,” he said, “if you hold a long stick between your beaks, I’ll close my mouth tightly in the middle of it, and then you can fly up and carry me to safety.”
“Good idea,” said the cranes. “But, for the plan to succeed, you will have to keep your mouth closed tightly on the stick and you must not say a word!” The turtle agreed and biting on the middle of a stick held in the beaks of two birds, off he was carried.
When the birds were high in the air with the turtle dangling down from the stick, some people on the ground looked up at the strange sight in the sky and said, “What clever birds! They figured out how to carry a turtle!”
The proud, talkative turtle cried out, “It was my idea!” and fell tumbling down to earth.
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Hahaha! Good one. 😀 Is this where the proverb “Pride Goeth Before The Fall” comes from? Have a good weekend, Corinne.
Corinne, it’s a very beautiful example on the need for us to work silently without look for credit. I am a firm believe in, let your work speak for itself and something that I try doing. It can be tricky with the ego but sanity should prevail.
Good one! Heard this story in my childhood. Sometimes, it’s better to work without thinking of the credit.
Sometimes it’s beneficial to let someone else take the credit. This story depicts that so well. But it’s a hard thing to do.