How Do You Eat An Elephant Case Study
Riddle : How do you eat an elephant?
Solution : In man-size bites!
This riddle serves to remind ourselves that being overly ambitious or unrealistic, to go for too much, more than can be handled at any one go, is not going to get one very far! Every vision is the result of an extended period of hard work, of a series of tasks or objectives, stacked up in a structured way. Realising the vision requires devotion to and successful execution of each and every one of these tasks. But first, how this vision breaks down into smaller objectives and finer tasks need to be clearly visualised and defined. Inability to effect this break-down is likely to lead to failure!
For want of a better term, let me call this practice of splitting up a complex …show more content…
Starting from a very low level was a wonderful strategy for keeping phobia and distaste for the subject at bay.
The entire December vacation was burned up revisiting the P2 books. Then, came madness - the new P4 school year started and the school moved on to the more challenging P4 syllabus. In the meantime, the boy's scores for Compre continued to look awful. But, I had full confidence in the approach. I kept going ... So, the new school year found me going through the P3 syllabus, ignoring completely, for the time being, what the teacher was doing in school. By the time we finished with the two P3 textbooks, it was a month to the P4 mid-year exam! All the catching up with the 4A book took place within that one month. By then, we were able to move at a relatively faster pace because his vocab foundation had now been substantially rebuilt. Thanks to my decision to bite the bullet and to keep focused. The efforts, the focus, the persistence paid off handsomely, the boy turning in a Band 1 (>75%) performance in the subject throughout his P4 year! Needless to say, his Compre ceased to be a major problem, as his vocab ballooned and his comprehension power improved proportionately. This was achieved without any attempts to administer a lot of Compre assessments! It came about through an indirect but logical and …show more content…
I picked up the game about two years ago. The children had started training in the Junior Development Program at the Club. One weekend, we decided to hit a few balls with the children on the condominium's courts. It didn't turn out to be a very fulfilling experience for me. I was either missing the balls or sending the balls flying all over, often out-of-court. I resolved to make that the last time I was going to be seen "playing tennis" that way! It was neither good role modelling nor good motivation for the
Solution : In man-size bites!
This riddle serves to remind ourselves that being overly ambitious or unrealistic, to go for too much, more than can be handled at any one go, is not going to get one very far! Every vision is the result of an extended period of hard work, of a series of tasks or objectives, stacked up in a structured way. Realising the vision requires devotion to and successful execution of each and every one of these tasks. But first, how this vision breaks down into smaller objectives and finer tasks need to be clearly visualised and defined. Inability to effect this break-down is likely to lead to failure!
For want of a better term, let me call this practice of splitting up a complex …show more content…
Starting from a very low level was a wonderful strategy for keeping phobia and distaste for the subject at bay.
The entire December vacation was burned up revisiting the P2 books. Then, came madness - the new P4 school year started and the school moved on to the more challenging P4 syllabus. In the meantime, the boy's scores for Compre continued to look awful. But, I had full confidence in the approach. I kept going ... So, the new school year found me going through the P3 syllabus, ignoring completely, for the time being, what the teacher was doing in school. By the time we finished with the two P3 textbooks, it was a month to the P4 mid-year exam! All the catching up with the 4A book took place within that one month. By then, we were able to move at a relatively faster pace because his vocab foundation had now been substantially rebuilt. Thanks to my decision to bite the bullet and to keep focused. The efforts, the focus, the persistence paid off handsomely, the boy turning in a Band 1 (>75%) performance in the subject throughout his P4 year! Needless to say, his Compre ceased to be a major problem, as his vocab ballooned and his comprehension power improved proportionately. This was achieved without any attempts to administer a lot of Compre assessments! It came about through an indirect but logical and …show more content…
I picked up the game about two years ago. The children had started training in the Junior Development Program at the Club. One weekend, we decided to hit a few balls with the children on the condominium's courts. It didn't turn out to be a very fulfilling experience for me. I was either missing the balls or sending the balls flying all over, often out-of-court. I resolved to make that the last time I was going to be seen "playing tennis" that way! It was neither good role modelling nor good motivation for the