Target Verification

The other day I had an argument with a friend. She was explaining that when you are trying to achieve a target, you start with the target and go about with your plan of achieving the same. You should not question/revisit the target.

I strongly disagreed. I said the target may be incorrect. Maybe it was not thought through. She hmmm'ed and haaw'ed. But still was not convinced.

I gave her an example. Let's assume I told you my target was to get married to Aish (ex Ms World). Would my friend take that target to be gospel truth and work on the means to achieve it or would she prefer to negotiate with me on my target and change it?

Now I have to tell you something about my friend. A smile doesn't come to her too easily. The last time she smiled was about 30 years back. But then on that day when I explained about the target she burst out laughing. Not only that, she gave in immediately to my idea of a target verification step.

She could have shown a little more grace and empathy and not laughed like that. At least she could have made a show of working with my target and trying to make it happen.

But the way she burst out laughing and capitulated completely...