Weakness Can Be Your Strength

Microsoft is still the world's largest software company. It is also included in the list of the 10 largest companies in the world. 20 years ago today, an interesting incident took place in this company. The company needed a peon. The HR department of the company called 20 educated youths and ordered them to fill up the job form and submit it. When the manager read the form, one of the candidates did not write the email address in the form. When the manager asked this candidate the reason, he said that:

''I do not have a computer so I never created my email address''

The manager angrily told him that in this day and age, the person whose e-mail is to them does not exist in the world and we cannot give a job to a non-existent person. At that time, the young man had only 10 dollars in his pocket. 

The young man decided to try his luck with these 10 dollars. He bought tomatoes for 10 dollars and started selling tomatoes from house to house in a neighborhood of the city. He sold all his tomatoes and made a profit of 15 dollars. The next day he bought 20 dollars worth of tomatoes and sold them for 40 dollars. Two days later his capital reached 100 dollars. The short story The young man's business has grown. He bought his van in a few days and then a few. In time, he bought a big truck and started selling vegetables from house to house and took the form of a small company. He built big warehouses, hired 200 people, bought big cars, and started selling vegetables all over the city. Over the next eight years, branches opened in several US states, and he became a millionaire. During this time, he got married and then he realized the need for an insurance policy for his wife.

So the insurance agent came and started filling out the form and said sir write your e-mail address in this form so that we can mail you the insurance policy. He smiled at the agent and said.

"I don't have an email"

I haven't used a computer until today. The agent looked at him in amazement and said, "It's amazing, sir. You've made so much progress without your computer and e-mail. If you had an e-mail today, how much progress would you make?" He laughed and He said.

"If I had an e-mail address today, I would be an office boy in Microsoft today because the nineteen young people who had e-mail addresses are still working as office boys in Microsoft"

Lesson:

The shortcomings in our lives that we consider our failures are sometimes the gearbox of our success. So let us learn the skill of making our weaknesses and shortcomings a source of strength. No one in the world can compete with you.

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