A Great Man from the House of Sun ["Beit Shemesh" - formerly of "Jew Jersey"] informed me that the volume on the audio shiurim was low and bought me a present - a microphone. BRILLIANT AND KIND!! "Brilliant" because microphones raise the volume and "kind" because he bought it. [When I ask straight away most people don't give - he gave without being asked. Speaking of asking - still short of the goal by almost 2k. Thanks SOOOOO much to the kind people who donated. It is SUPER appreciated. Those who didn't - you give to other causes so what do I want from your lives?! G-D BLESS YOU!!!:-) I love you all!:-):-) I would hug you but am limited by the great physical distance between us].
May I be zocheh to be kind [brilliant is not important and it is probably too late for me].
Which reminds me of the following story:
May I be zocheh to be kind [brilliant is not important and it is probably too late for me].
Which reminds me of the following story:
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As a kid, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos learned an important lesson from his grandfather: Kindness is just as important as intelligence in order to be successful.
Bezos, who was briefly the richest person in the world [I guess that means that he was the most שמח בחלקו. What did he feel that he lacked that made him no longer the richest??], learned this lesson one summer when spending time with his grandparents on their Texas ranch when he was ten years old. The self-made billionaire, who Forbes estimates is worth $82.6 billion [BTW - I have a "few" less dollars but have a full head of hair, Baruch Hashem, which taught me that all of the money in the world can't buy a full head of hair], recounted the story during baccalaureate remarks he made at Princeton University.
As a child, he said he was obsessed with math and would find any reason to show off his prowess with numbers. He would calculate everything, including gas mileage, useless statistics and grocery spending.
One day, while sitting in the back of his grandparents' car, he overheard an ad on the radio, which said that every puff of a cigarette takes minutes off your total lifespan.
Bezos said his grandmother was a smoker, which he hated, so he decided to calculate the number of years she had taken off her life thus far.
"I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on," Bezos told the graduating class.
"When I was satisfied…I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder and proudly proclaimed, 'At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!'" he explained.
Bezos sat expectantly as he waited to be applauded for his wit and "arithmetic skills." Instead, he said, his grandmother burst into tears.
His grandfather pulled over to the side of the road, got out of the car and waited for his grandson to exit the vehicle, Bezos recalls. He then told him, "Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever."
Our educational system teaches us to be smart, to solve math problems, to read literature, to experiment in the science lab etc. etc. but we are not taught enough that being kind in INFINITELY more important. And the rewards and honors go to the kids with the high grades and not the one's
with the good middos. How unfortunate.
#dontinsultbubby
