MADAM

It was on Monday that sai told me about their new Madam for marketing class in E slot. She is a P.G student under the regular prof and was taking couple of classes of which one is due on wednesday and suggested me attend the class. I have my principles of management by Sangamithra madam in E slot. So I didn’t thought of his suggestion seriously.
But on Tuesday when I met Ranga and only raised the topic of their new marketing madam, he too enthusiastically told about her and also that Harmo has already taken her pic with his cell. I felt like attending her class. But I forgot it after sometime.
On Wednesday in A slot, slot before E slot that day, it was really boring. To me class rooms are the dullest places on the earth. They take away my life. I would do anything to avoid a class. But some are unavoidable. I wasn’t paying attention to the lecture. I remembered marketing madam. I never experienced the thrill of sitting in some other class leaving my class. Thought of attending her class for a change but still didn’t firmly decide to attend the class.
After the class, walking towards DoMS, where my regular class n this new madams class are being held, I was still in a dilemma remembering my low attendance. May be because of the distress caused by earlier classes I moved towards the new class. The class is already occupied and the students were waiting for Madam. Backbenchers, I made their heads turn, recognized the foreigner in the class and welcomed with a smile. Took my seat among Ranga, sankerth in the last row. Then came a lady(??girl??) and started taking attendance. She is fair, slim, age of 25+, decently dressed in red salwar khameez, average looking girl. I was little disappointed because of prior hype given by my friends. But wait. Soon after attendance she started her lecture. The class was racy, interactive and went almost uninterrupted except for once. She took a minute or so scolding someone in the front rows. `switch off your cell, I thought I was talking to well grown students…..dash, dash` though it was only for minute they were strong words.
Before we started enquiring what happened, she started her lecture n continued in her style. With wide forehead, raising her eyebrows high once in a while, putting her lower lip in between the teeth when she asks a question, child like. She is very expressive. She was talking about 4Ps- Product, price, place, promotion. Even the class was interesting, like her.
After the class, we come to know that the interruption was because of one more guy trying to take her pic.

Book Review

Title: what do I do when I want to do everything?
Author: Barbara sher (http://www.barbarasher.com/)
The back cover reads:
Are you a scanner?
“I’m fascinated by something new every week!”
“I lose interest in things I thought would interest me forever.”
“I enjoy finding out how to do new things but get bored once I understand them.”
“Having just one career for life sounds so dull- what about all the other jobs I might like?”
If your passions and abilities take you in so many different directions that you find it difficult to set a goal and achieve the life you want, then you may be a scanner. Unlike people who are satisfied with one area of interest, you are genetically wired to pursue many interests and goals.

The title and the words on back cover tempted me to start reading it.
Book starts with prologue of her own story in her college days. It’s divided into two parts, eight chapters in part 1 .Chap 1 introduces the symptoms of scanners. Chap 2…. Put this chapters business aside.
In the book she introduces us to a kind of typology- people can be roughly divided between “scanners” and “divers”. The modern world is set up to favor and pander to the divers. Divers are people who specialize in one discipline and work towards becoming settled within it (at whatever level seems to work out for them). Doctors, lawyers, athletes and similar professionals whose training and career will have included long periods of focusing on just one area are usually divers.
Scanners, on the other hand, find themselves interested in many seemingly unrelated topics, struggled( or were never able) to choose one subject to major in, and are often viewed and treated less favorably by our current society.
The content is very systematically presented, firstly about the symptoms of the scanners, reasons for their behavior like leaving the things half done (from a divers perspective), then few words boosting the scanners morale, quoting few noted scanners n their works and then many exercises and techniques to build the gap between planning and doing, which are also useful for non scanners.
In the second part she classifies the scanners into 10 categories, though no scanner completely falls into particular category and elaborates symptoms and prescribes the apt working methods.
It ends with three types of resumes for a scanner.