{"id":4475,"date":"2020-04-07T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T12:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2020-04-08T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:54:21","slug":"the-parable-of-the-old-man-and-the-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/the-parable-of-the-old-man-and-the-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"The parable of the old man and the hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pixabay-usine.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pixabay-usine.jpg\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An important piece of machinery in a factory breaks down. Several specialists try to repair it without success. An elderly repairman is called in. He walks around the machine, taps it in places, gets a hammer out of his toolbox and whacks it in a specific spot. The machine starts working again and the man with the hammer is congratulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchasing receives an invoice for \u20ac5,000. Stunned, they ask the repairman to send a detailed breakdown.&nbsp; This is what he sends them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Hammer blow = \u20ac2<br>2. Knowing where to hit = \u20ac4,998<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trainer asked us how much we would be prepared to spend to get our sight back if we went blind.&nbsp; Health has no price, of course. But it\u2019s an interesting question because often we don\u2019t really appreciate everything we have available to us on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if you made a list of the things that are at your disposal, that you are really grateful for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important piece of machinery in a factory breaks down. Several specialists try to repair it without success. An elderly repairman is called in. He walks around the machine, taps it in places, gets a hammer out of his toolbox and whacks it in a specific spot. The machine starts working again and the man with the hammer is congratulated. Purchasing receives an invoice for \u20ac5,000. Stunned, they ask the repairman to send a detailed breakdown.&nbsp; This is what he sends them: 1. Hammer blow = \u20ac22. Knowing where to hit = \u20ac4,998 A trainer asked us how much we would be prepared to spend to get our sight back if we went blind.&nbsp; Health has no price, of course. But it\u2019s an interesting question because often we don\u2019t really appreciate everything we have available to us on a daily basis. What if you made a list of the things that are at your disposal, that you are really grateful for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2289],"tags":[2572,2573,2574,2575,2525],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/the-parable-of-the-old-man-and-the-hammer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The parable of the old man and the hammer - Bulles de bonheur\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An important piece of machinery in a factory breaks down. 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