The Good King and The Cruel Tyrant

"As long as things were tough and the job a challenge I could always manage to hold on pretty well, but as soon as I learned the combination, got the puzzle under control and the boss to pat me on the back, I was gone again.  Routine jobs bored me, but I would take on the toughest one I could find, work day and night until I had it under control; then it would become tedious  and I'd lose all interest in it.  I could never be bothered with the follow-through."

There's a story attributed to the Buddha where he visits two kingdoms - one ruled by a kind king and one ruled by a cruel tyrant.  The Buddha asks the kind king to scour his realm for a bad player and the cruel one to find someone truly good.  As this is a parable you can imagine the result: the good King could always find something admirable even in the worst of his subjects while the cruel king never failed to find something objectionable in each and every person.

There's probably a point to this story but I have no IDEA what it is.  Unless it's a reminder that we're going to find what we're looking for.  We're going to have a good day or a bad day largely based on our approach.