The Spilled Milk – Inspirational Story

By Ali - Admin on May 19, 2011 in ar, Attitude, Moral, Motivation

There is a story about a famous research scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs. He was being interviewed by a newspaper reporter who asked him why he thought he was able to be so much more creative than the average person. What set him so far apart from others?

He responded that, in his opinion, it all came from an experience with his mother that occurred when he was about 5 years old. He had been trying to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he lost his grip on the slippery bottle and it fell, spilling its contents all over the kitchen floor” a veritable sea of milk!

When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of yelling at him, giving him a lecture, or punishing him, she said, Ahmad, what a great and wonderful mess you have made! I have rarely seen such a huge puddle of milk. Well, the damage has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up?

Indeed, he did. After a few minutes, his mother said, You know, Ahmad, whenever you make a mess like this, eventually you have to clean it up and restore everything to its proper order. So, how would you like to do that? We could use a sponge, a towel, or a mop. Which do you prefer? He chose the sponge and together they cleaned up the spilled milk.

His mother then said, You know, what we have here is a failed experiment in how to effectively carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands. Lets go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can discover a way to carry it without dropping it. The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without

dropping it. What a wonderful lesson!

Moral

This renowned scientist then remarked that it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be afraid to make mistakes.

Instead, he learned that mistakes were just opportunities for learning something new, which is, after all, what scientific experiments are all about. Even if the experiment doesn’t work, we usually learn something valuable from it.

inspirational, motivational story

5 Responses to The Spilled Milk – Inspirational Story

SHUAIB K.O January 6, 2013 at 1:48 AM #

Nice lesson there,I do hope some rigid &fierce parents would ve opportunity of reading this piece so they can learn some lessons. The children need some level of self confidence to boost their ego&this,they learn from home.
Zafar Iqbal September 20, 2012 at 6:02 PM #

Oh So true. The lesson is not the spilling of the milk and cleaning it up; but in knowing how to tackle the problems – apart from the confidence building exercise this Scientist got.

What a great mother!

Bless all mothers.Thank Heaven for all mothers!
mustafa August 27, 2011 at 2:57 PM #

why aren’t our parents like that
- wasim April 28, 2012 at 1:28 PM #
  
  Moral of the story is not to blame our parents but to learn how should we behave with our kids when we will become parents 🙂 May be our parents did not read this story but we did.
gary June 2, 2011 at 10:08 PM #

wow

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