Analogies: Set 2

Learning versus Dish Washer

You get your first job as a dishwasher in a restaurant at a minimum wage. You work hard to become the best dishwasher and most dependable employee in the restaurant. After years of hard work and dedication, you are still a dishwasher working at minimum wage. Hard work and dedication will not make you successful. You must continuously strive to learn new things, reach new goals, and achieve expertise in new things. A dish washer who does his or her job well, but also learns, seeks, and works at all the other jobs in the restaurant business may one day own a restaurant. If you are able to perform a highly effective round kick and you use it all the time, you will become the best round kicker in your school. However, if you try other kicks and use them regularly, you will become the best kicker in the school. If you are only doing what you do best, you will not progress. To progress, you must constantly attempt things that you cannot currently do.