Once an artist painted a beautiful painting of the Rising Sun; so good, so realistic that one would easily get immersed in it, tempted to meditate, to hear the singing of birds.  No doubt, it was absolutely flaw less. He took the painting to his mentor.  The mentor praised the painting a lot.

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With praises from mentor, our artist got carried away. He took the painting to the King, hoping he would get rewards and money. The King also liked the painting and rewarded him with a bag full of gold coins. Boastful he was, he thought no one on earth could point a flaw in painting. He decided to display the painting at busy corner of the street for a day. He did, along with a note saying: Put a cross mark where you feel there’s a flaw or else sign in the appreciation notebook. The artist thought when his mentor certified it as flaw less, how a lay man could find a flaw?  Thus he was least expecting a single cross mark. But when he went to collect the painting next morning he was shocked that there were hundreds of cross marks on the painting and not a single signature in appreciation book. His masterpiece was spoilt and his ego crashed in a day.

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Disappointed & depressed he showed the painting to his mentor and told him what had happened. Crying, he cursed himself that he was no good. The mentor consoled him and asked the artist to make another painting, exactly the same, a replica of this one. Artist could not understand the intentions of mentor. But, as advised, he made another painting exactly a replica and took it to mentor.
 
Now, the mentor advised him to display this replica at the same corner again for a day, but with a note saying that whoever feels there be any flaw in the painting, should correct it there & then using the paints and brushes kept there. If the observer doesn’t find any flaws, then he should sign the appreciation notebook.

Anticipating that there would be hundreds of corrections in his painting, a little nervous and a little excited, our artist went to collect it the next morning. He was surprised to see that there was not a single correction but had hundreds of appreciation signatures.

Moral of story:  Never let some one to pin point your mistakes instead request them to rectify  the mistakes if they find any. Every one considers themself smart and are eager to point out mistakes of others, give free suggestions without having any real knowledge of the subject.

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