Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Making use of every opportunities - 16 April 2013


Day 2 – Tuesday

Today we had no meeting with Stuart………Yeahhhhhhh….that means no school today. My smiles were quickly swept away as I thought of the amount of work I need to catch up on.  As result of cake and the tests that took place during the course of last week, I fell behind on most my readings which means I wasn’t getting full value from the lectures I was attending as I was unfamiliar with the topic discussed. So I have to drag myself out of bed and head to school….

On that note I would just like to share my opinion about lecture attendance, as an undergrad I barely ever saw the need to attend lectures, being young a naïve was the main cause of that. I would rather take a day off to nurse a hangover or spend it watching movies with friends. All this led me to have an enormous amount of work to catch up with before exams. This as you can imagine led to long nights in the library a huge amount of caffeine and hardly any sleep. This is never a good thing as one cannot function effectively with a tired body. Same way as a bank manager would never approve a loan on a Friday afternoon as he is unable to make an objective decision due to fatigue suffered during the week and is mostly likely to overlook important information in the rush to get home. It goes to say that as business person you cannot function and effectively if you are not well rested. Same for a student, you would not be able to an engage with the content being presented to you. This brings me to my lesson for the day.

During the course of this program I have decided to attend all lectures and workshops, as hard as it is been, I have found that it has made my studying a whole easier, as I would have gotten an understanding on the depth I have to get into in order to grasp the material being taught, I have found that it enables one to ask any question that may rise and clarify any misunderstanding. Trust me it’s an awful feeling struggling with a concept at two in the morning before your final exam. It just leads to further confusion.   An experience I have been through once too often. However this can only happen if one takes time to familiarise themselves with the material before going to the lecture. So my advice to any budding entrepreneur, take each lecture as a new learning opportunity and do your best to amass as much knowledge as possible. At the end of the day you pay a lot of money for this opportunity, so it only makes sense to make the best of it.

This approach has been working for me as late and hope to stay on the same track for the remainder of the program. Id likes to share a quote that I ran across in some shop in town.

“Customer service is like making love to a Gorilla, you don’t stop till the Gorilla is satisfied”

                                                                                                            Anonymous

This is the approach I’d like to take to acquiring knowledge, and remix it to suit my intentions, you dint stop till the mind is satisfied.

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