Paid to think. Stonehenge. Bees.
- gaymen2
- Oct 2
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Ford smiled and led the reporter into his production room. Work was going on everywhere, people were running around, bells were ringing, and elevators were running. The entire hall was abuzz with chaos. Amid the chaos was a cabin where a man was lying comfortably in a chair, his feet propped up on a table. He had a hat on.
Ford knocked on the door. The man looked up from under his hat and said in a tired voice,
"Hello Henry, are you all right?"
Ford smiled and nodded. Then he closed the door and walked out. The journalist watched the scene in amazement.
Ford laughed and said,"This guy makes the highest salary in my company."
The journalist asks in surprise, "What does this person do?"
Ford replied, "Nothing. He just comes and sits with his feet on the table all day."
The journalist asked, "So why do you pay him the highest salary?"
Ford replied, "Because he's the most useful person I've ever had."
Ford said,"I hired this guy to think. All the systems and vehicle designs in my company are his ideas. He comes in, lies down in a chair, thinks, creates new ideas, and sends them to me. I work on them and make millions of dollars."
Ford said,"The most valuable things in the world are ideas, and for ideas you need free time. Complete silence, freedom from all kinds of chatter. If you're busy day and night, you can't come up with new ideas and new projects. So I've hired a smart person just to think. I've also given him financial freedom so he can give me a new idea every day."
The journalist was forced to clap.
If you also try to understand this wisdom of Henry Ford, then you too will not be able to stop yourself from clapping.
If a person is a laborer or artisan, they work all day. But as they rise up the ladder, their leisure time increases. People in large industries and new sectors stay away from home for most of the year.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are also among the most leisurely people in the business world. Warren Buffett reads for four and a half hours a day. Bill Gates finishes two books a week. Both of them read approximately 80 books a year. They drive their own cars, wait in line for coffee and burgers, and use smartphones sparingly. Yet, they are among the richest people in the world. How? Because of their leisure and freedom of thought.
Unless we are mentally free, our mind does not work on big ideas.
Therefore, if you want to accomplish great things in the world, you must free yourself. If you keep yourself busy with small tasks, you will be unable to think and then you will be unable to accomplish great things in life.
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One of the most well-known structures in the World !
It’s a two-hour journey from central London. It costs £27 for admission, excluding the coach trip there. Even from the visitor centre it's an additional walk or coach trip to the Stones themselves after arrival.
Once you finally get there, you realise you cannot get close or touch Stonehenge - the closest you’ll get is 5 metres away! So why even go? Because it's approximately 5,000 years old and so well known!
For a tourist destination, to travel a total of 4 hours to just stand next to some stones, that’s got to be up there with some of the worst tourist destinations possible?
Contrast and compare the Stonehenge experience with that of a visit to the Coldrum Long Barrow.
The Coldrum Long Barrow is only an hour away from London. Parking is free. Admission is free. Once at the stones, you can get so close that you could touch them! If you visit just before dawn on the 1st of May, you’ll also see the Hartley Morris Men "sing up the sun" at this location. But the main reason to come here instead of Stonehenge is that it's 1,000 years older than Stonehenge!
So yeah, I’m not a fan of Stonehenge, not when you compare it to the Coldrum Long Barrow, Trottiscliffe, West Malling, ME19 5EG.
Did you know that Stonehenge was uprighted and set on concete foundations in the early 1950's.
Here is a picture of one of the lintl's being placed on top of a stone that had falled some time in history.
One does wonder how primitive man managed such a feat.
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A surprising fact about bees you might not have known.
Bees have two stomachs: one for eating, which is their digestive stomach, and another for storing nectar, which they then transform into honey, also called nectar crop.
A worker bee lives for about 40 days, and during that time it visits about 7,000 flowers to produce 5 grams of honey, which is equivalent to about a teaspoon.
For us it's just a little honey, but for the bee it was the hard work of his whole life.
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“This Army soldier was on my delayed flight home to Mississippi.”
He had to watch his baby being born over FaceTime.
He was crying, and it broke all of our hearts.
We gave him space and stayed quiet so he could be present for the moment.
When we heard the sound of the baby crying through his phone, the whole plane cheered for him.
I wanted to share this story because it’s a reminder not to forget our soldiers — the ones who serve us every day and the big sacrifices they make.
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