Setting Unrealistic Goals (Tower Building)

The Beginning

Much to my surprise the class began with no presentations stuff , no book reading  but pure intellect coupled with a very good interactive session where Dr Mandi discussed the loop holes in the current education system and motivated us to be involved in entrepreneurship ventures and showed how small concepts can make up to big business which was really very exciting to see .


Tower Building Exercise

In the next lecture of POM we were told about effective goal settings and we had a very exciting exercise for understanding it , namely the Tower Building exercise.
Dr. Mandi asked us to build a tower by placing a square block dice over one another and asked everyone in the class about the maximum height which can be reached ,the student came up with varied responses ranging from 8-30 cubes which can be inferred as their Ambitious Goals in which mine was 22, the professor then came up with a twist and asked what can be the maximum height attained if this exercise needs to be done being blind folded but with the help of a guiding partner and told us that the Historical performance was 17 Cubes after which some students lowered their targets including me while some retained the original targets.
I myself went ahead with the exercise by setting my goal equal to the Historical performance thinking that it will be Ambitious and Realistic as well but in the end managed one more than it.

Learning's 

Seeing that my Potential before performance moved beyond my Potential afterwards  what I learned through this exercise is that

·                     There are no Realistic goals and even the unrealistic can be achieved

·                     One should have a Risk appetite in support for the goal setting.

·                     We should aim for Unrealistic Goals