Strengths And Defects : How to turn the later into the former ??

Hi all !!

Here I go with the third of my posts. Well this is also inspired by a story somone told me years ago. As u can see in the title it is about the strengths and defects which play a huge role in the daily life. We often hear alot about losing games and etc.. because of certain defects. So Is it always true that ppl loose beacuse of their defects ?? no atleast for me it is not, they loose because of their inability to use their defects to their advantage.

To emphasize my point i put in that story which was told by a close friend of mine six years ago. Here it goes :

Long Long ago in china(dont know why many stories are of chinese origin) there lived a women who used to earn her living by collecting firewood from a near by forest and selling it in the market. This woman had two pots one of which had a hole @ its center while the other one was perfect. Daily the woman used to fetch water using these two pots from a lake situated deep in the forest. The place was far and the woman had to walk a mile or two (approx) daily. Beacuse of the defect in one of the pots she used to have only 1 and half pots of water everyday. Seeing this the pot which was perfect teased the other of being useless. The defective pot, that night asked the woman the reason for which she was still using him. In reply the woman asked the pot to carefully observe the path on both sides the next day.

The next day evening the woman asked the pot if he had noticed any difference among the two sides. The defective pot replied by saying that there were alot of flowers on his side of the path. The woman simply laughed and said it is because of the hole which the pot had that she was able to grow those flowers which she was selling in the market to earn some extra money.

So frenz this might just be a small story ( largely ineffective for most) but as i said there is nothing defective or effective, It depends upon how we perceive it. Many might look @ this as any other story but some might look @ this as a small source of knowledge. Perception, it is that which makes the difference between a STRENGTH and a DEFECT.

**feel free to post in ur opinions