Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The Hero Journey

This game says we have to place our most valuable items at a
designated place. This game says we will all start running from a
starting point, blind folded. Each round, the game will disqualify
the person who last grab his own item.

So the game starts, everyone place their most valuable items they
have next to the window. Some place their handphones while some
place a pencil. Some has item that is large in size, some has very
small items.

They start to blind fold themselves at a distance about 10 metres
away from the window. `GO' and all start to run and grab their items
as fast as they can.

Student A runs fast and he is first in line. The last lady got
disqualified.

Second round, student A is first again and he takes a shorter time to
reach his item.

Round 3, again student A is first and faster.

At this point student B starts getting faster and catching up.

At round 6, student B emerges as the winner while student A is second
line.

After several more rounds, as participants gets disqualified, now
left 2 winners in the race.

Now, students B starts to get slow but still win student A, his only
competitor. So student A got disqualified.

Student B is now alone in the race. The race does not stop here and
gets more interesting. Now we challenge student B to break his own
record. And interestingly, he gets slower each time we challenge him.

After some rounds, his speed is really slow as compared to his own
record. Then we tell him to find some solutions so to be able to
remove all obstacles around him in order to run faster.

And we ask a `loser' to run and `compete' with him this time.

Several attempts are made and now he is a little faster. And he
decides to remove his blind fold. Now he is fast and reaches his own
record once again.

Lesson 1 : set a goal big and compelling
Lesson 2 : always have a competitor
Lesson 3 : be creative and think out of the box
Lesson 4 : the bigger a goal is the easier to achieve this goal

Important note : the winner at the beginning is often not the final winner.

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