I came across Building an accessible world, one brick at a time blog post by Paul Smyth and knew I needed to share it with you all.

Once upon a time there were three bricklayers,  all doing the same task. When the first bricklayer was asked “what are you doing?”, he replied “I’m building a wall”. The second bricklayer was asked the same question and they replied “I’m building a house”. Finally, the third bricklayer was asked what they were doing and they replied “I’m building a cathedral”.  The three bricklayers were all doing the same task but what was different between them was their passion, pride, perspective and sense of purpose.  The first bricklayer viewed their task as a Job, the second bricklayer viewed the task as a career and the third bricklayer viewed the task as their calling.  

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Paul Smyth is Barclay's Head of Digital Accessibility and was awarded an MBE in 2020 as part of the New Year Honours list for services to disability inclusion and financial services.

Read more about Paul Smyth and his passion.

The world needs more people like the third brick layer working on Disability Inclusion, Accessibility and Sustainability to build back ever better.