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Just when you've been struggling to make things work and you've been stuck for months, maybe even years, and you're stuck, then it really is time to stop and try to see what's going on from a distance or even from a bird's eye view.
The well-known sisyhos is said to be around the year 1400 B.C. have lived and king of Corinth and son of Aiolos have been. It is also known that he is said to have distinguished himself by great wisdom.
Sisyphus' Punishment, because he obviously had not only been endowed with wisdom, but also with sufficient peasant shrewdness, has consisted in continuously rolling a boulder up a steep slope since his death, which transported him to the underworld. However, this stone always slips away from him shortly before reaching the summit and he has to start all over again.
Homer already reported this in the Odyssey, and one can therefore hope that the boulder has worn down a bit in the meantime.
If you now think it couldn't get any worse, I want to reach out to you Naranath Bhranthan remember, who obviously does this voluntarily and tirelessly, since he gets excited every time he sees the boulder rolling down the mountain.
But the worst thing is probably when you are already riding a dead horse while you are still alive and also do not want to admit it. Already the Lakota were aware of this fact and recommended the following:
When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
wisdom of the Lakota
Nevertheless, in Europe and the western world we have adopted different strategies that we have tirelessly applied to this day and that we want to recommend to others as the best possible.
You can find some of these strategies here:
– EL: buying a stronger whip;
– MT: changing riders;
– UK: saying things like: “This is the way we always have ridden this horse.”
– SE: appointing a committee to study the horse;
– IE: arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses;
– FR: increasing the standards to ride dead horses;
– PT: appointing a team to revive the dead horse;
– EN: creating a training session to increase our riding ability;
– FI: comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment;
– HU: change the requirements, declaring that, “This horse is not dead.”
– BE: hire contractors to ride the dead horses;
– LU: harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed;
– ES: declaring that, “No horse is too dead to beat.”
– EU: providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance;
– US: do a study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper;
– IT: buying a product to make dead horses run faster;
– AT: declaring that the horse is “better, faster and cheaper” dead;
– NL: forming a quality circle to find uses for dead horses;
– CY: revisiting the performance requirements for horses; saying this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable;
– PL: promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
Now you just have to find someone who can show you the best way to dismount a dead horse. For the Lakota this was probably not a problem and so normal that no further explanation was needed.
But as long as we don't know how to get off a horse or even a horse healthy, we'll probably continue to ride, each in our own way... dead horses.
"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"
William Shakespeare, King Richard III
