Louis XIV was passionate about urbanism, and he surrounded himself with the great and greatest architects of Europe at the time. The young architect, Jules Mansar, received only small requests from Louis, and the major projects were the share of the most famous engineers and architects.
But Mansar was a very clever man, and when he presented his initial drawings to Louis, he deliberately left a mistake and some deficiency in them, knowing for sure that Louis would pay attention to him, and indeed Louis, because of his passion for urbanization, was aware of the deficiency that Mansar had intended. He did, and when Louis was asking him to correct this error, Mansar pretended to be astonished by the king's architectural expertise, and engineering prowess, and praised the solution he proposed to avoid this deficiency!
And over the years, Mansar remained reliant on the same method, and became more popular with Louis, and when he reached Mansar.
Thirty years old, he received a special royal request:
Expand the city of Versailles!
Mansar was less experienced and talented than many engineers around the king, but the king chose him for this task because he was satisfying his desire and passion to appear an expert in engineering and urbanism!
Every human has a tendency for something, and the fastest way to reach his heart is to participate with him in this tendency!
And what Mansar applied to get to Louis's heart, we can apply it in our lives, with some ingenuity, with a lot of non-artificial intentionality that can enter the hearts!
The fiancée of one of the doctors complained about his strong attachment to birds, he often accompanied her where he kept his birds, and did not pay them enough attention! She seriously thought to break the engagement, but one of the wise men advised her to get to know the world of birds, its habits, food, time of mating, and types!
Indeed, when she began to delve deeper into this field, and to talk about it with her fiancé, she noticed from him a demand for her, and an interest in her that she had not found before, so that she no longer chooses what to gift him on occasions, she immediately chooses something related to birds, a new bird, a special cage, food for a bird Has! And so she easily entered his world.
Nobody asked you to be a decorator if your wife liked it, nor a fashion designer if she was passionate about it, nor a world chef if she liked to cook! Simple familiarity with things is enough, something of a common rule for conversation, even in the kitchen, which prevents you from being an insect and coming to beat an egg with it, or to stir the contents of a pot over a fire, people often tend to accompany those who share their interests!
Adham Sharkawy / Al-Watan Qatari newspaper
Note: I apologize if there are errors in the article, it is translated from Arabic to English
