Three Monks (Chinese Animated Story)

Overview: -

Three Monks is a Chinese animated short, released in 1980 and directed by A Da. It is one of the most famous and beloved of Shanghai Animation Film Studio's productions, and has won awards at film festivals throughout the world.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."But In the end of film ,it was shown that how all three work out for a productive solution with proportionate amount of effort for each.

Analysis:-

As film shows , There is a temple at the top of the hill and there is only one source of water , a pond , located at the bottom of the hill. A water barrel is present in temple which can be filled by carrying water from pond. To carry water 2 buckets and a pole is available. And 3 monks come to the temple for prayer one after another.

Basically film is comprises of 4 parts and I analysed and compared all 4 in terms of productivity.

So Lets take work done by one monk to fill two bucket and carry it to top as 1 unit or 1 joule. 

1) One monk at the temple-

With one Pole and two buckets , first monk fetch water from pond.

Total Buckets carried = 2 , Total work done  = 1 unit 

2) Two monk at the temple-

Both monk firstly behave friendly but when they needed water , no one was ready to fetch it. So they come up with sharing of load , where 2 monk will carry only one bucket which will be in the exactly middle of the pole.

So,

Total Buckets carried = 2 , Total work done  = .50 x 2 = 1 unit 

3) Three monk at the temple-

when third monk join them in temple , all three of them starts expecting from other 2 to bring water and so no one  fetches water. So in all work done is null.

Total Buckets carried = 0 , Total work done  = .0 unit 

4) Three monk at the temple(Solution)-

In crisis situation , All three make effort and with sharing of load , all 3 were able to fix the problem and also get united. So they come up with a solution for future and divide the work proportionately. 

So,

Total Buckets carried = 2 , Total work done  = .33 x 3 = 1 units

Result:- 

Case 1,2,4 have equal productivity as a whole but Case 4 have more individual productivity then and other case. Case 3 is a worst scenario for an organization where employee expects from others to apply effort and get work done.

Understanding and Learning :-

• Unity in Strength -

   Unity means oneness, or togetherness. When there is oneness there is likely to be more strength in opinion, more strength in action, and more strength in character. This is a very simple and obvious fact that, if one person tries his hands on some job, he will manage much less than what a group effort will achieve.

• Teamwork -

Team work is essential in corporates for better output and a better bonding among employees.. In a team , Workload is shared and individuals feel motivated to perform better than his team members

• Division of work or labour -

 Division of labour represents a qualitative increase in productivity. In a successful organization , work and labour is divided as per economic , technological and physical strength of individual. Such structured division lead to success.