Looking for $150
IllustrationStory★★★★ONE day a teenager lost his contact lens while playing basketball in the driveway. He started looking all over the ground trying to find it, but couldn’t find it anywhere. Somewhat scared, he went and told his mom that the lens was lost. She went out to help him look and found the lens in all of two minutes. Now, contact lenses are hard to find. His mother found in two minutes what the teenager had been looking for over an hour. When he asked his mother how she found it so easily, she said, “It’s simple, son. We weren’t looking for the same thing. You were looking for a piece of plastic. I was looking for 150 dollars.”
The point
A teenager searches an hour for his lost contact lens while his mother finds it in two minutes because she was looking for $150 instead of a piece of plastic—perspective determines value.