The reinterpretation of parable of talents

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One of our tasks on earth is to invest, to make the world grow   One of the greatest sin is being indolent.   We should work harder.

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HE “FIVE TALENTS PRINCIPLE”:

How a 2,000-Year-Old Lesson Reveals the #1 Rule of Growth in Business

In Matthew 25, Jesus told a story that might be the most important business lesson ever recorded.

A master was leaving on a long journey.

Before he left, he entrusted three of his servants with resources.

One received five talents of silver.

Another received two talents.

The last received one talent.

A talent was not a coin.

It was a lifetime’s worth of wages…a massive investment.

The master expected them to do something with it.

The servant with five talents went immediately to work.

He invested.

He traded.

He multiplied.

He turned five into ten.

The servant with two did the same.

He doubled what he had.

But the servant with one talent?

He dug a hole and buried it in the ground.

No action.

No risk.

No effort.

No return.

The unseen longer bolt problem

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Its more of the longer bolt not the missing bolt.  The longer bolt not seen by many was causing problems in the axle assembly.  Until Henry Ford found it.

You have to have sharp eyes and perceptive mind to see problems in business

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**THE “MISSING BOLT PRINCIPLE”:

How Henry Ford Saved Millions by Fixing the One Thing No One Saw**

In the early 1900s, Henry Ford’s factories were pumping out cars faster than any business in history.

Production was smooth.

Demand was endless.

The Model T was unstoppable.

But Ford noticed something strange:

A pile of defective rear axles kept stacking up in one corner of the plant.

Not hundreds.

Thousands.

Each defective unit cost Ford money… in repairs, delays, and scrap metal.

Engineers inspected the part dozens of times.

Machines were recalibrated.

Workers were retrained.

But the failures kept happening.

Finally, Ford walked down to the line himself.

He watched the entire process …slowly, carefully, silently.

After nearly an hour, he pointed to a tiny spot most people overlooked:

A single bolt.

It wasn’t loose.

It wasn’t broken.

It wasn’t missing.

It was just… too long.

Workers had to torque it slightly harder to fit.

Not enough to notice.

Just enough to strain the axle over thousands of repetitions.

Ford ordered a simple fix:

“Shorten the bolt.”

Within days, defects dropped dramatically.

Within weeks, the problem disappeared.

Within months, Ford saved the modern equivalent of tens of millions of dollars.

All from one bolt no one else thought to question.

THE MARKETING LESSON

In business, your biggest losses rarely come from massive mistakes.

They come from tiny inefficiencies you stopped noticing.

Ford understood something revolutionary:

Small flaws become big expenses when multiplied.

That’s why great companies obsess over:

• onboarding friction

The post it principle - inventions rarely come from a plan to invent but from accidents or aberration that solve a problem and later become a billion $ industry

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Post it which sells in over 100 countries did not come out as a planned innovation. It came out of aberration.    Failure is just a byway for another innovation

Post it was failed formulation for a glue.  It stuck but not hard enough causing temporary removable sticking.  and became useful for posting of notes and music notes in a musical instrument

Sometimes great invention come from a solution to a problem:   "What pisses you off?"

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The “Post-It Principle”: How a Failed Glue Accidentally Stuck a Company Together

In 1968, a chemist at 3M named Spencer Silver was trying to invent a super-strong adhesive.

Instead, he made the opposite… a weak, pressure-sensitive glue that barely stuck to anything.

It was useless.

Or so everyone thought.

For years, he tried convincing other departments to use it. Nobody cared.

“Who wants a glue that doesn’t stick?” they laughed.

Then one day, another 3M employee named Art Fry faced a totally different problem.

He sang in his church choir and kept losing his bookmarks in the hymnal… they kept slipping out.

He remembered Spencer’s “failed glue” and had an idea:

What if he used it to create reusable sticky notes that could stay in place without tearing the paper?

The first prototypes were small yellow squares… simple, cheap, and oddly satisfying to peel and place.

3M called them Post-it Notes.

They became one of the most successful office products in history… used in more than 100 countries, generating billions in sales.

The Marketing Lesson:

That’s why:The biggest breakthroughs rarely come from invention.

They come from reinterpretation.

Spencer didn’t create something new… he saw something wrong in a new way.

That’s the power of repurposing mistakes.

• Netflix didn’t invent movies… they reimagined distribution.

• Uber didn’t invent taxis… they reimagined access.

• Airbnb didn’t invent travel …they reimagined trust.

Innovation isn’t about starting over.

It’s about seeing overlooked value in what already exists.

The Nerdy Takeaway:

Failure isn’t the end of the story…it’s the raw material for your next breakthrough.

The “Post-It Principle” proves that sometimes your worst idea just needs the right problem to make it brilliant.

So the next time something doesn’t work…

Don’t throw it away.