Motivate Yourself

A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a young. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom. Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars. "What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!" So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill." The man sent a bill that read: Tapping with a hammer...... . ........ ..........

At a coffee shop that exists in a city south of Italy that is far and quiet. A person entered the coffee shop and said to the waiter: 2 cups of coffee, please, one of them on the wall. The waiter gave him one cup of coffee but the man paid the price of the two cups. When the man went out, the waiter fixed a paper on the wall written one cup of coffee on it. After that two persons entered and ask three cups of coffee, the waiter brought two cups of coffee for them, they drank the coffee and paid the price of three cups. The waiter fixed a paper on the wall written one cup of coffee on it. One day a poor man entered and said to the waiter: One cup of coffee from the wall, please. The waiter brought him the coffee; he drank it and went out without paying the price. The waiter went to the wall and removed one paper from the wall and put it in the wastebasket. That's a great action from the people of this city that reflexes the highest sort of human cooperation. It's so nice to fin...