Week 11-The Seminar: We think what we think, they think what they think.

Posted by Han Fei

The Seminar Day was only a so-so success, I had to say. We should have rehearsed fully the day before the seminar rather than just a simple get over with it seminar. Oh well, what’s done, done. So what had I learned during this seminar day?

Seminar is boring, at least our seminar is boring, even I sort of fall asleep, especially during our Linux Speaker, Ahmad Kastro’s talk, he spoke too fast and his speech was thick with his native Indonesian accent. Yes, which reminded me, we should have spend at least 2 hours to rehearse with Ahmad so that we could correct any fault that might be present during the seminar. Sigh, in the end, in our race against time, we lose in that race. Surprisingly, when our members collect some personal feedback from our participants, they told me that, the seminar was not bad, all the while I thought that, it suck badly. But at least it wasn’t that bad.

Because of this, I learned something else, that you might think it isn’t very relevant with the whole seminar thing, but this had quite an impact on me: What you think is not what they think.

We think this, we thought that, thinking that it might suited our clients the best, but sometimes that wasn’t the case, only when we extract from our clients about the truths,(mind you, the truths, not some lies they sometimes speak in fear of ruining our friendship and stuff like that), then only we can be certain of how our policies and strategies were for our target market. Sometimes, we assumed too much on ourselves forgetting to ask our target market opinions, sometimes we feared that the feedback might be bad, and thus we chose to neglect the feedback question. Coward, yeap, that’s me. Haha.

With the feedback they gained it sort of soothed my mind of think what a bad seminar we organized which might had a big blow on my rather fragile ego, but thank God, it wasn’t entire true.
We think what we think, they think what they think.