The businessman and the fisherman (1963)
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The businessman and the fisherman (1963)
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Re: The businessman and the fisherman (1963)
#2A few years later, the fisherman gets an expensive, debilitating disease and dies penniless and destitute and alone. But at least he had fun before that.
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#3Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life.
Let’s be honest: fishing in the USA is a tough full time job, even if you love it. You can’t relax by the ocean catching a few fish to pay rent and support your family.
Re: The businessman and the fisherman (1963)
#4I remember this from the old book "the 4 hour work week", it was a good read and really was ahead of the curve even though it was cheesy at times.
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#5Anybody want to take a crack at tracing the origin of this one?
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#6Twist: the fisherman is already rich and has a fleet doing his work.
Re: The businessman and the fisherman (1963)
#7Anybody want to take a crack at tracing the origin of this one?
"[...] it looks like the original story was written by German writer Heinrich Böll in “Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral” (“Anecdote concerning the Lowering of Productivity”) and published in 1963."
Re: The businessman and the fisherman (1963)
#8this is 'the parable of the mexican fisherman' it's the kind of story that is in every book like 7 habits of effective people or 4 hour work week or probably books by Malcolm Gladwell or ones like him
Re: The businessman and the fisherman (1963)
#9A few years later, the fisherman gets an expensive, debilitating disease and dies penniless and destitute and alone. But at least he had fun before that.
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Re: The businessman and the fisherman (1963)
#10Not a story you’d hear in a poor fishing village I’d imagine.