Becoming Learn-ed

We learn just too many things in life but how many do we apply day in and out, rarely a few. No wonder people of the earlier generations gave so much emphasis on the womenfolk learning to cook well because that's something you can't survive without. I learnt how to make masks and chains with the orangies (I call them so, otherwise they are called 'BuckyBalls' and HE laughs when i used the word 'orangies').

In multi-national organizations, some weightage (Performance Appraisal) is also given to the kind of trainings you attend and deliver. A few months ago I attended one delivered by two people, one of the trainers was a Gold medalist from ISI. I tried hard to understand what he was planning to deliver and looked at the other trainees, most of who were sipping cups and cups of coffee to keep themselves awake during the session. The other trainer scored her 8.5 out of a 10 and the brilliant Gold medalist had a tough luck with keeping people happy and scored a bare 1.5.

There are the best and worst forms of things you experience in life. For example, people say 'he is the most wonderful person i have met till date' and the sentence holds true till they don't meet a more wonderful person. As we are talking about trainings here, I will state one as was narrated to me by one of the friends. There were two trainers again and a bunch of 20 trainees. The theoretical part was very well explained by the first trainer and when everyone was looking forward to some interesting exercises and case studies by the second trainer, the expectations went for a toss, passing seconds seemed like days and mobiles became the loveliest things and one of the trainees just became an observer. A third eye view of what happened across the room.

A graph was shown which apparently had 3 lines running from left to right. One of the lines was black in colour.
Trainee: What does the black line represent?
Trainer: It is the ROP line
Trainee: That's okay, but what does it represent?
Trainer: It is the ROP which is dependent on the AOP
Trainee: That's okay but I want to know as to what does it represent?
Trainer: It is the ROP line showing averages for the last 12 months
Trainee: I want to know as to what does the line signify, why is it drawn here and how does one interpret the line or read it
Trainer: It is the black dotted line that has been cut and pasted from the graph I showed in my last slide
Trainee: Thanks!
and the trainee went into peaceful sleep for the next part of the session.

Another one was trying hard to get the head and tail out of the session and was beating the floor so hard that the carpet seemed to be coming out. One turned his face into that of an ill-looking donkey who was not fed for days. One looked at the trainer as if that was the last time he was looking at her. A few ordinary ones opened up the games on their phones and started playing. A desperate few tried hard to make out what was told until someone shouted 'Stop it!' and things came to a standstill.