Well, here is another story as life might have written it.
I suffer under a person who would like to call himself “Business Coach”. Actually, he crossed my path rather unbidden and ever since then I do not seem to get rid of him.
He has an offensive way of talking and considers himself extremely important. His special competences are numerous – and he can already boast a great career.
He likes talking about “mutual appreciation of values and practiced respect for each other”. His motto is “Business Spirit” and he encourages people to “love”.
Many cannot understand him. They avoid him. Yet all he wants is do good and discover the best potential in all of us. Actually, he invests quite some energy into this. Also, he can be ruthless when working towards this goal. Whatever he says always sounds like someone who is very humane. Yet more often than not, his environment misunderstands him. I, too, cannot understand him. He is a lonely hero.
In real life, however, he takes advantage of every opportunity, no matter how small the advantage. He wants to be as great as possible. What he is after is – and he actually says so quite openly – “the optimization of the human potential”. With this motto, he wants to earn a lot of money. This is the future – and it is exactly what he is best at.
“The optimization of the human potential!”
This is something that makes me nervous. In fact, I cannot bear it any longer. It all sounds so familiar. Whenever I hear it, it gives me pause. Human potential is not something you can optimize and measure!
I sincerely hope that this concept will never prevail in my world. That is why I invented this person and wrote this fairy tale.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
P.S.
I took the picture from Wikipedia:
”Master of Alexander’s Battle 002“
The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.
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