Evolved crow story - Old Ideas are not working anymore

In the year 1990, there was a crow in a village. he was feeling very thirsty. he looked around the village for water and he couldn’t find it anywhere. The crow had covered nearly the whole village, finally, it found some water in a pot. When he looked inside the pot, there was very little amount of water left. The poor crow tried to put his beak inside the pot but could not reach the water. The water level was too low, and the narrow opening did not allow his neck from going all the way down. He looked around and thought, “What else can I do?” He saw that there were a lot of stones nearby. 

Suddenly, he had a brilliant idea! He collected a few stones and dipped them into the pot. After this, As he added more and more stones, the water level came up to the top. The crow drank the water and went on happily. 

But the story doesn't end there.

The very next day this brilliant idea was published in all newspapers, many crows read this story and all other crows started following the same idea and this worked for many years.

In the year 2000, It was a hot summer’s day. Really, Really a very hot day.  One thirsty crow flew into a town searching for water. The crow had nearly covered the whole town but there was no sign of water. After a very long time, he came across a farm nearby the town. Luckily, there was a pot of water. Happy that he found some water finally. But, When he looked inside the pot, the same repeated in the previous story. As he already heard the same idea from his ancestors, he looked for the stones. The stones were found a little far away from the pot.

As this crow heard the same story for many years, he followed the same path. Unfortunately, the crow died before the water level came up to the top. It was just a few inches away. The crow ended his life in a very sad situation. Many crows realised that the old ideas are not working anymore. 

There are various reasons to fail, 

• A village has become a town. 
• People stopped using pots. 
• Crow searched for water for a very long time
• Over a decade, there are a lot of climatic changes in weather due to global warming
• Stones are far away from the pot
• It’s a really hot summer and a very hot day.

No matter what the reasons are, a life is ended by ignorance that not realizing whether this old idea will work in this situation or not.

On the same day, the story was published in a blog article. And the author asked the readers to tell more ideas to get water in different scenarios. He received 100s of ideas to get water. 

• Crow can take other crows to help him to push the pot down to let the water out
• Bring a bigger stone to make a hole in the pot
• Bring his friend bird woodpecker to put a hole in the pot.
• Get a straw from a nearby cool drink shop (People may not use dustbins)
• Find a liver tap and turn it on to get some water.
• Switch on the water pump and get water.
• Build a nest nearby a water source
• etc.

And the list goes on like this. This is the power of contribution from society.

The author took the top 100 ideas from his article's comments and published a book with the name “100 ways to get water”, the book has become a bestseller on Amazon. 

This story was published/forwarded many times on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, and many other social media platforms. 100 ways to get water became 1000s of ways. 

Crows get overwhelmed, confused about which idea works in which situation. One of the crows realized that he needs a mentor to guide him. The moment he realized, he found a mentor and Built his digital echo system to train the crows.

The Digital Echo System works like a flywheel. 

1. Influence building
2. Get leads
3. Course: Step by Step Process to get water, a proven model
4. A community of crows who completed the course and implemented the same business model and had success in their career, contribute back to the community with updated and latest working ideas.
5. Go to the 1 step.

Water ~ Money

Crows ~ People like you and me

Ideas ~ Knowledge

Can you guess what happens in 2030?

Crows become very very smart and press a button on the smartphone to get water using IoT.

If you have any further ideas, please comment below.