Lastly, in the story is what I now interpret as a lesson about conciliation between personal life and work, between duty and pleasure and about how our happiness consists in finding the right balance. In those cases I never raise my head to the top, I just focus on the next step…and for me, sincerely, it works! The thieves of time and happiness It seems foolish but I have applied this more than once since I read the book as a child… and I still use it when I take a hike with my friends and the hill gets too steep. You don’t know how it happened, and you are not breathless. Suddenly you realize that step by step, the whole street has been swept. Then it’s fun that’s important, because then the task is done correctly. You should never think about the whole street at once, you understand? You just have to think about the following step, in the following inhalation, in the following sweep. And you try harder, you begin to be scared, at the end you are breathless. Every time you raise your head, you see the street is not becoming shorter. It seems so terribly long you think you could never finish it. One day he explained to Momo: “Things are like this: sometimes you have in front of you a very long street. Every now and then, he stopped for a moment and looked thoughtfully. When he swept the streets, he did it slowly but constantly with every step an inhalation and with every inhalation a sweep. In the following extract of the book there is what I consider a great lesson about how to face tasks that need a great, continuous and constant effort.īeppo liked his job and was good at it. Let’s continue with Momo’s best friend, Beppo Street-cleaner, whose profession is the same as his surname.
Beppo Sweeper and his positive mindset to face the work. And listening in an active way, even less. You’ll think… listening isn’t a gift, we all do it. Her gift is that she knows how to listen and when she does, she can get the person she is listening to, to bring out the best in them and become a better version of themselves.
It’s not that she can sing, dance, lead or that she has an extraordinary intelligence (maybe she has). A book in which you can learn a lot as an adult and those lessons can be applied to any aspect of life, even work. I have read again a book from my childhood, “Momo” de Michael Ende.
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