Yesterday at the Media Meet with the President, there was a display of an attribute that disturbs me.
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\nThe moderator, the Information Minister, set the ground rules for the Q&A time: one question per person, make it snappy.
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\nNot a few of those who had the opportunity to ask questions decided to ignore the instructions totally, asking two and sometimes three questions, even after a couple of warnings.
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\nIt is a character that irks me. We all think we can outsmart the system. It is either indiscipline or an inability to follow simple instructions.
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\nIt is that same trait that makes people climb the curb to avoid traffic and then create more traffic in the process.
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\nIt is that same trait that makes people want to jump queues in the bank.
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\nIt is that same attribute that makes people want to bribe to cut corners.
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\nWe want to grab as much as possible when we have the stage. We want to eat as much as we can when it is our turn, not caring about those behind us.
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\nThe above are the examples of indiscipline.
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\nBut there is more.
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\nPerhaps we just don’t know how, or care, to follow instructions.
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\nYou put up a post and say people text a particular number and not call. They will call.
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\nYou say people should send details into your inbox. They put the details in the comments’ section.
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\nYou ask people to get in touch via a particular email (not your own) and they send the mail to your inbox.
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\nSomeone is to give a speech and you ask him to use 15 minutes, he ends up speaking for 45 minutes.
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\nA student presenting his project is asked to wrap up\u00a0in 2 minutes\u00a0and he proceeds as if he has one more hour.
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\nYesterday’s session was revealing in these respects as well, aside the questions.
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\nIndiscipline on display. Or plain deficiency.
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\nNsempiisms. My mouth has fallen.
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\n–
\nBy: Nana Awere Damoah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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