2008-02-05 Seminar

Motivation seminar time. My oh my... that's what managers do all day long?

There was this guy who travels the face of the earth on a mission to motivate employees. To achieve this goal, he teaches them how to juggle, how to learn stuff by heart very fast and how to break wooden boards with their bare hands. The basic idea behind all this is to make them understand that they can do things that seem impossible.
The intention was good, but I don't feel like I belong to the target group. Last year I learned to scuba dive, jumped out of an airplane, rode a roller coaster and traveled halfway around the planet to get a new job. I know that the sky is the only limit. Or is it? We'll see about that when I have my own hang glider...

He also told us that there are two kinds of people. I persons and We persons, depending on how they would rather spend their leisure time. Now check this out:
Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better. [Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker]
Except for this one guy from Monty Python's Life of Brian, of course.

But it wasn't exactly a waste of time, either. I guess the trick is to take what you can use and give your best to forget about the rest. I (almost) learned how to juggle. I learned how to learn twenty random items by heart very fast. I got a wooden board for my kitchen to cut stuff on. That's not bad for one day.