Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Creativity Creates Prosperity


Once I attended a Toastmasters meeting at the Petronas Twin Towers. A Toastmaster did an invocation speech and it went like this:

A blind man once was sitting on the pavement near Puduraya trying to collect some loose change from passers-by with a sign "I am bind. Please help me". Some passers-by who were kind enough dropped a few coins into his old tin cup. Then, one man picked up his sign, turned it over and wrote something on it. The result was, passers-by now dropped RM notes into the blind man's tin cup. What did that man write on the blind man's sign? He wrote, "It's a beautiful day today, but I cannot see it".

It takes some creativity ti incite guilt into the passers-by's minds to get them to donate more. People do not give so much out of pity, but they give more out of guilt.

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