Still Being Random

[RANDOM STORY MY MOM EMAILED ME]

An old man saw a scorpion drowning and decided to pull it out from the water.

He calmly puts his hand to reach the creature, when he did, the scorpion stung him…

With the effect of the pain, the old man let go the creature and it fell back into the water.

The old man, realizing that the scorpion was drowning again, got back and tried to rescue it, but then again it stung him. He let go it again…..

A young boy standing by approached the old man and said:
“Excuse me sir, you are going to hurt yourself trying to save the evil, vicious creature, why do you insist? Don’t you realize that each time you try to help the scorpion it stings you?”

The Man replied: “The nature of the scorpion is to sting, and mine is to help. It will not change in helping the scorpion.”

So the man thought for a while and used a leaf from a nearby tree and pulled the scorpion out from the water and saved it’s life…

Then turning to the young boy, he said…

“Do not change your nature. If someone hurts you, just take precautions.”

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how relevant is this story? wow

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It really troubles me when people use academic achievement as a means of measuring intelligence. You’re basically saying that somebody who is able to successfully jump through hoops and be submissive to authority is the height of intelligence, rather than looking at somebody’s capacity to think independently and creatively. I think that you can tell a lot more about somebody’s level of intelligence by sitting down with them and having a five minute conversation rather than looking at some letters on a piece of paper which, essentially, are meaningless.

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