Uncharted Journey
A fascinating story (during World War II) from the book “Bugles and a Tiger, My Life in the Ghurkas” by John Masters:
“A Ghurka rifleman escaped from a Japanese prison in south Burma and walked six hundred miles alone through the jungles to freedom. The journey took him five months, but he never asked the way, and he never lost the way. For one thing, he could not speak Burmese, and for another, he regarded all Burmese as traitors. He used a map, and when he reached India, he showed it to the Intelligence officers, who wanted to know all about his odyssey. Marked in pencil where all the turns he had taken, all the roads and trail forks he has passed, all the rivers he had crossed. It had served him well, that map. The Intelligence officers did not find it so useful. It was a street map of London.”
What happens when your map to success is incorrect?
Even with the wrong map, the right 'compass' can still guide you to your destination—if you know how to use it properly.
Where are you heading?