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psychology student was to help a professor in conducting a personality test. The room was set up with various props in order to move through the assessment quickly. The first person to enter the room started through the test.
"How does this glass of water look to you?"
Person 1: It is half empty.
Student writes 'pessimist' in his report.
Person 2 enters the room. "How does this glass of water look to you?"
Person 2: It is half full.
Student writes 'optimist' in his report.
Person 3 enters the room. "How does this glass of water look to you?"
Person 3: Looks like you have twice as much glass as you need there.
The student looks totally blank and goes to consult with the professor.
"Oh them!", the professor says, "I forgot to warn you about the engineers! They have no personality.
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The visiting minister was surprised when he went into the pulpit to find just one person in the congregation - an old farmer.
He went down to him and said, "Is it worth proceeding?"
"What do you mean?" said the farmer.
"Well" said the minister, "is it worth having a service for such a small congregation?
"When I take the bucket of food to the hens and only one turns up I don't send it away hungry."
Moved by this simple analogy, the minister went back to the pulpit and went through the whole service including a long and very forceful sermon.
When he had finished he went down to the farmer and asked, "Was that alright?"
The farmer rather tersely replied, "When I take the bucket to the hens and only one turns up I don't give it the whole bucket".
"How does this glass of water look to you?"
Person 1: It is half empty.
Student writes 'pessimist' in his report.
Person 2 enters the room. "How does this glass of water look to you?"
Person 2: It is half full.
Student writes 'optimist' in his report.
Person 3 enters the room. "How does this glass of water look to you?"
Person 3: Looks like you have twice as much glass as you need there.
The student looks totally blank and goes to consult with the professor.
"Oh them!", the professor says, "I forgot to warn you about the engineers! They have no personality.
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The visiting minister was surprised when he went into the pulpit to find just one person in the congregation - an old farmer.
He went down to him and said, "Is it worth proceeding?"
"What do you mean?" said the farmer.
"Well" said the minister, "is it worth having a service for such a small congregation?
"When I take the bucket of food to the hens and only one turns up I don't send it away hungry."
Moved by this simple analogy, the minister went back to the pulpit and went through the whole service including a long and very forceful sermon.
When he had finished he went down to the farmer and asked, "Was that alright?"
The farmer rather tersely replied, "When I take the bucket to the hens and only one turns up I don't give it the whole bucket".
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