You’re at a function. There’s one Cake. Just one standard Birthday cake and maybe 20 guests.
Perhaps you’ve invited ten or twelve people, but twenty have arrived.
And you stand there, with the spatula and think: How thin can I cut a slice?
Up comes a professional Mommy who takes the cake cutter. She doesn’t go from the centre out, she makes a circle, and gets ten brownie like pieces from the perimeter.
Then she makes another circle and gets seven pieces or so, which she dispenses.
Now, she the centre circle so that the guest of honour gets a larger piece and the other half is divided.
Although it is simple, the first time you see it, you might be astounded.
You are seeing experience.
Those of us who have ever had to fill a venue know that when two days are left for the event and a pile of tickets remain a contingency plan must be flung into place.
The cost and embarrassment of an empty venue is far less than the loss of prestige.
Persons who have done this before will take the majority of unsold tickets and give them to schools or government agencies as prizes.
A small number will be retained and sold at the gate.
Brasil, being new, (although they did the World Cup) didn’t get that. Didn’t comprehend the loss of face empty or half empty or partially empty stadia would provoke.
The tickets were not distributed and the world got to look at empty, half empty and partially empty stadia.
There was no way the athletes didn’t see ‘no one’ was watching.
People who get a ‘free’ ticket are often those who buy souvenirs and snacks. So there would not be a total loss if free tickets were handed out.
But Brasil didn’t know that.
Brasil did not make contingency plans, considering if the Zika virus or the ticket price or fears of unrest kept spectators home.
One would have assumed the possibility would have been considered and come August 8 when so many tickets remained unsold, that some plan would have been implemented. But none was.
Although many of us are not aware, there are certain ‘skill sets’ possessed by people who do this ‘all the time’.
We often have ‘resource persons’ attached to organisations who can be called upon to assist us when we need help.
The Wedding/Event Planner, for example, has made life easier for many people. They have considered problems that few would imagine and made contingency plans.
This is because, like the Mommy, they’ve done this before. And having done something before has value.
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It is always good and advisable to learn from people who have gone ahead of you in every field of life.
We can stand taller and see farther when we climb on the shoulders of our predecessors.
Imagine if Brazil sought those kind of advices, the Olympics would have been a better and different one
Precisely. They could have gifted tickets to civil servants or members of organisations or anything and filled those stadia. But they know everything.
You should see how bad the rooms were. Many Jamaicans were put into unfinished rooms with virtually nothing in there. Usain bought his own T.V. because there was none in his room.
It is said that experience is the father study and practical field as you have explained in detail what you have experienced in the party and play ground.
Really cutting a large cake into equal pieces is very difficult but first time later every body learns how to cut a large cake in the party or at home alone or among the people.
I see the stadium is empty and there are less watchers in the play ground and the tickets given to the needy free of cast effort proves in vain and people did not come to watch the match.
Al the seats remained empty because people have lost interest in games
as I have seen. But peoples' interest is increasing in wrestling and football match.
What we do it is the matter of people's interest what they watch free of buying tickets. No matter let the people do their work in all field of life.
They didn't give away the tickets. They didn't go to schools. They didn't do that. Had they done that it would have been a packed stadium.
We ar3 often told that we should learn from experien a and what better people to learn from then from those who have been there and some that. There is nothing as bad as trying or doing something that you do not know or ha e never experienced it can turn out to be the most embarrassing thing ever.
Usually I have seen people who have gone to top notch restaurants or hotels for dinners or something. You will see them walk majestically to their reserved table and while there you would see them fidgitting not knowing how to seat or where to place their handbags. So there is that panic and unsettling feeling that someone is watching. So someone will decide let me just do what i know and that's when they mess up. I guess if I can speak for myself, if I was in a place where I do not know or I feel am inexperienced what I do is just sit back and watch people for a little while, see how they behave and carry themselves around. From there I would have an idea of what to do and how to go about it and avoid unnecessary attention.
Yes. That is the right way to deal with things... not to be presumptuous, not to proceed as if you know everything. And ask for help