Uncle Rajendra likes to tell a story from his own childhood.  The experience taught him a life lesson he never forgot.

One day his grandfather asked him to grab a handful of nuts form a bowl in the kitchen.  When he returned, his grandfather counted the nuts, "one, two, three, four", and asked if you could get more than four nuts into his little fist.  How many?"  asked little Raja.  His grandfather suggesed, "How about eight?"  Raja went back to the bowl, dug in his fist, but as hard as he tried, he could never get more than four nuts.  He got so frustrated he was tempted to throw the nuts across the room.  But as he reached in one last time, he relaized that he was shoveling our more than eight nuts.  He was excited and ran over to grandpa who had been watching him the whole time.  His grandpa said, "Let that be a lesson to you.  You get a whole lot more out of life with an open hand than do with a closed fist."