Work - in honor, idleness - in shame.And so it was almost always. The expression “A small matter is better than big idleness” also speaks about this. Why is this and what is useful labor and idleness is harmful - we will understand today.
Meaning
The meaning of the proverb is reduced to a simple formula: "Do better at least something than nothing." Why? Because labor, even the most insignificant, has three components:
- He drives away the boredom.
- He has a goal.
- Labor is productive.
У безделья таких составляющих нет, потому что оно empty and boundless. But in addition to the above elements of labor, there is one more side to him that needs to be discussed separately and prove, after all, why a small business is better than a big idleness.
Labor has a perspective, but laziness has none
Any small business can liveand develop, and if a person is not engaged in anything, then it will not bring him profit. Moreover, our time is such that some manage to make money on the most seemingly trivial things. For example, someone, as he (or she) considers excellent taste, and a person likes to dress people. Today, such a profession is called "stylist". But there are people who make a living only by picking clothes for wealthy citizens without touching the image as a whole. Of course, if a person is poor, then he simply has no money for a personal stylist.
Бедность и богатство в данном случае совсем не important, and the important thing is that a small business is better than big idleness. Even if the occupation seems strange and incomprehensible to others. Who knows, maybe a person in 10 or 20 years will become a trendsetter.
By the way, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates also started small. And what happened in the end? Everybody knows. And this example even managed to fill the edge of teeth. In any case, the facts can not go anywhere.
Dale Carnegie and Proverb
The books of the American psychologist are widely known.Dale Carnegie. They can be treated differently, but he also has a wise thought: “The cheapest medicine for neurosis is to be busy.” Thus, it turns out that the proverb “A small matter is better than big idleness” also has a psychological dimension. Boredom and unemployment are really dangerous. If a person does not know where to apply himself, then he gets various bad thoughts, from which he falls into depression or other unpleasant and risky states. If a person is busy, then he has no time for baseless reflections, he needs to carry out the tasks.
Therefore, work is good not only because it giveslivelihoods and fills a person’s life with content - work also has a therapeutic meaning: it does not allow a person to go insane from thinking about, for example, the meaning of life. Why bother with all sorts of abstract nonsense yourself, when specific tasks are waiting to be solved? The answer is obvious.
And if a person thinks about it, he will understand: the proverb “A small thing is better than big idleness” says the same thing.
