This is FiveMinuteFriday, Look for the Horse.
Welcome back everybody to the SuperDataScience podcast and happy New Year! Happy 2020. It’s so amazing to be alive at this time, exactly. Because exponential technologies are growing. The world is changing. We’re getting closer to all sorts of singularities. It’s very unpredictable, but it’s at the same time super exciting. And today I have a very interesting thing I learned from my dad recently. So he shared a pretty cool story with me through a video and I wanted to share that with you. It’s kind of like an anecdote, but it has a very, to me I found it has a very cool philosophical meaning behind it.
So basically this one man has two twins, twin boys who are about to turn 12 years old, it’s their birthday tomorrow. And so they’re very much the same identical children except for the only difference, one is a total pessimist and the other one is a total optimist. And so the dad decides to teach each one of them a lesson. So for the pessimist, he wants to show him that not everything is bad in the world, there are good things.
And he packs his room, the night before his birthday, he packs his room full of presence. All these presents, all sorts of presents. He bought him pretty much anything a young boy at the age of 12 could want. And he put all these presents in his room. And for the optimist, he wanted to teach him the opposite lesson that not everything in life is so amazing. You can’t be positive all the time. Sometimes, you know, bad things can happen. And so he got him instead of a present, he got him a big pile of horse manure or horse crap and he put it inside his a room, like just basically like a big, big horse poop in his room.
And yeah. So the kids wake up in the morning, the dad goes first to the pessimist and asks him, “Oh, so how was your morning? What did you get, what kind of presents did you get?” And the kid is standing there, he’s like, “Oh well look at all these presents. Like my whole room is full of them, it’s going to take me a whole day to clean this up. This is terrible. I am going to have to unpack all this and I’m going to have to throw out all that packing rubbish, all those packing paper. This is just that my day is ruined. It’s all terrible.” So after that together they go to the optimist’s room. And so the dad asked the optimist and the optimist is like super, super excited, super happy. Like he’s got a huge smile on his face and dad is not understanding what was going on.
So he asked the optimist, “Son, what did you get for your birthday?” And the son says, “Well apparently I got a horse.” And the dad is like, “What kind of, what horse are you talking about? Where’s that horse?” And the son, the optimist replies, “Well that’s what I’m trying to figure out. It’s obviously here because the poop is here on my bedroom floor, but I just can’t find the horse itself. I’m trying to figure out where this horse is. And it’s so exciting.” Yeah, so some people manage to see negative, even in the most positive things. And some people manage to see positive even in the most negative things. So for you this year, I wish you to look for the horse in everything that happens with you, that happens in your life that happens for you in your life. Always look for the horse. Because I definitely know I’ll be looking for it in mine.
And on that note, I look forward seeing your back here. We’re going to have an amazing year, an amazing 2020 in the SuperDataScience community, on the SuperDataScience podcast. And until next time, happy analyzing.
