Dalai Lam Article Summary

In the article, the author, Howard C. Culter, interview one of the greatest persons of nowadays, politician and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Dalai Lama. The theme of their conversation is how to improve someone’s work by finding a calling in it. All the ideas in the article are very clear and no doubtful, but still, to find a calling in your profession, the higher purpose, is not really hard; to understand, that you in general and your calling are truly helpful for the society and this is something that you want to do is much harder and it takes much more time of thinking and observations. There are tree stages in people’s lives before they can choose their job. Actually, two and a half: kinder garden, school and the first year
We all have these stages, but we all end up our “career” differently. I remember, how my dad told me after he had come back from the Graduate Reunion, that things turned out very different for everyone, thought they all were pretty the same in the school years. These kids, who wanted to be a doctor and got the highest marks in school, now look sad and tired of their lives. However, the “party” guys, who always had fun in school, took part in many sports competitions and etc. but who didn’t really care about their marks, now they hold companies, or travel all over the world. So why do people who have such honorable jobs, which are easy to call “a calling”, basically failed their lives? “You would think that our view of our work depends on the nature of the job. But it is not the case that there is a division based on the job”. There are doctors, who spend their time on the work thinking about how they’ll go home, sit on the couch with food and turned on the TV. Do they can be good doctors? To find a calling in their work is really easy. It’s such a great “high purpose” to help people by treating them. Unfortunately, for someone it becomes
Mr. Lama said, “A person may have a boring job, but the person may be supporting his or her family … then this could be a higher purpose and when they get bored or dissatisfied with their work, they can deliberately reflect on providing for the happiness and comfort of their family…”. In my opinion, it does provide a motivation, but not necessary “Happiness at work”. Moreover, it can make feel even worse, because this responsibility for the family could stop the person of change something. When your relatives rely on you, you can’t really do something crazy like change your trusty but boring work on something new, but so exciting. I had an amazing primary-school teacher; she was kind but could explain everything very clearly; she was talented. However, after my class had finished primary school, she quit this job and became an accountant. As she told me later, she had a teenage son and her salary wasn’t enough to pay for his college. But she had never been this happy again as she was teaching kids. Has she done the right thing? Absolutely yes. Was she happy? I don’t think so. Thus, this rule works to help people to get along with their jobs, but not to love it, not to be happy doing