The story of three monks and what can we learn from them

We were given an assignment by our Prof. Mandi to watch the movie three monks and i was wondering how can a movie teach us concepts of marketing.I started watching the with a lot of expectations and i was not disappointed in the end.

Three Monks 
It  is a Chinese animated feature film produced by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. After the cultural revolution and the fall of the political Gang of Four in 1976, the film was one of the first animations created as part of the rebirth period. It is also referred to as The Three Buddhist Priests

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The film is based on the ancient Chinese proverb "One monk will shoulder two buckets of water, two monks will share the load, but add a third and no one will want to fetch water. The film does not contain any dialogues, allowing it to be watched by any culture, and a different music instrument was used to signify each monk.The film tells the story from the aspect of the Buddhist bhikkhu.

Story

The movie tells a simple tale of a monk who lives in a temple on the top of a hill.Every day he brings 2 buckets of water up the hill by balancing them on a wooden pole.One day he tries to share his work with a second monk and both of them carry only one bucket together up the hill by balancing it on a wooden pole.One day a third monk arrives and the monks try to share their work with him but everybody tries to shun their responsibilities and a result of which no one goes to bring water in the bucket and everybody becomes thirsty.At night, a rat comes to scrounge and then knocks the candle holder and this leads to a fire in the temple.The three monks then work together to extinguish the fire and learn the valuable lesson that strength is always present in unity.

Learning from the three monks:
1.) The maximum efficiency can only be achieved when a group of people are working as team with the objective to achieve the end goal.
When the temple catches fire the three monks work together to extinguish it.They build up a process using a pulley for faster transportation of water to the top the hill.Hence when the number of people in a team increases the productivity increases and the effort involved by every individual decreases.

2.) Personal egos and selfish behavior is always detrimental for work and never produces the end results.
The three monks had the task of bringing water up the hill using buckets but each monk thought that the other two monks should do it as a result of which no work was done and they did not have any water.

3.) A person should not shirk his responsibilities by thinking that someone else will do his work for him.

4.) While working in a team we should realize the potential of other team members by understanding their strengths and weaknesses and try to realize our own potential.