Roles

Interpretation

This proverb is about roles. We need to recognize and play our roles correctly, however humbling they may be.

If you have carpentry skills and are assigned the role of a carpenter in a project, for example, you won’t automatically become the project manager by dressing up in business attire. You’ll still need to do the manual labor of working with wood in your good looking clothes. Just as shoes are meant for the feet even if made of gold, a person with carpentry skills is meant for working in a carpenter shop even if dressed like a CEO. Unless he or she hones their skills to add business savvy, they should accept their role as a well dressed carpenter.