WANT TO EAT AN ELEPHANT?
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” Henry J. Kaiser F or many years, I used to have this placard pinned to the lectern in my classes: “WANT TO EAT AN ELEPHANT?” This used to be at the start of the academic year. Young boys and girls, curious to know what it was all about, would come close to the lectern and stretch their necks out to read the fine letters at the bottom of the placard: “Eat one spoon at a time!” Well, the message would get conveyed from my end… and, my young students would get it, too: “Honey, we are at the start of the academic year. If we can manage one lesson at a time, slowly and steadily, we can manage the whole syllabus, very efficiently. Else, when the exams come, you will stare at the ‘Elephant’ and panic: “How can I eat it?” “Honey, the only way you can eat an elephant is – by eating it one spoon at a time! There is no other way!” “People do not lack strength,” says Victor Hugo, “they lack will.” That’s w...