 Once upon a time there was a very rich man who lost all his wealth. Unfortunately he became so obsessed with his loss that he couldn't think of anything else. Waking, sleeping, eating, drinking. All he could think about was the money that he had lost. Now one day obsessed as he was he had a very strange dream. In this dream a voice said to him tomorrow morning at exactly 11 o'clock a monk will walk past your house. This is not really a monk this is actually all of your money in disguise. When you see him hit him over the head with a stick and he will immediately turn back into a giant bag of gold. So as you can imagine the next morning the man is waiting anxiously outside his house when on the dot of 11 a monk walks past his gate. The man jumps out and as he's been instructed hits the monk on the head with a stick and lo and behold the monk actually does turn into a giant bag of gold. Unfortunately however a barber was walking past the house at this very moment. He saw what happened and he thought to himself what a great way to make money. So he immediately ran to the closest temple and under pretext of wanting to feed them he invited 10 monks to come to his house. As soon as they were sat around ready for their food he started to hit them over the head with a stick. You can imagine the chaos everyone was shouting the blood everywhere people heard the commotion they came running in they saw what was happening they dragged the barber off to court. The barber tried very hard to explain to the judge that he was doing exactly what the other man had done. He was trying to turn the monks into bags of gold but of course nobody was ready to listen to him and he was sentenced to death. So what's the moral of this story? As always I think the story has many lessons but for me the most important lesson is don't mindlessly imitate someone because you think that by copying their actions it'll lead you to the same kind of success. What we always get to see is people's last actions it's the visible elements of their success. Intelligent people understand that there has been a plan a process and a purpose that has gone before that. So by all means be inspired learn from others but first understand the point of what you're doing and why.