Law of Primacy

Yesterday, I had yet another educational & enegertic chapter meeting. This time round, it was at BATMC. I am beginning to find more reasons to attend other clubs' chapter meetings. For e.g., I was introduced to powerful speakers in a packed room & was invited to evaluated an advanced speech by an unknown speaker.

Interestingly, there was the 'Law of Primacy' which I learnt yesterday & I found it lacking and yet applicable in our everyday's lives. The law of primacy refers to the principle of being first in learning. It often creates a strong impression. For e.g., we always remember the first few minutes of a speaker's speech, the first few numbers from a long string of digits. Hence it is important to start right by teaching the important things and “unteaching” wrong first impressions is harder than teaching them right the first time.

We might not know that it's called 'Law of Primacy', but we are aware of its presence & effects in learning. However, how often do we apply this to our daily lives? We wake up each morning - unintentionally exposed to this law. But we start our days either in a grouchy mood or in a hurried manner. For the busier souls, we start our days checking our mails. Is this what we want to remember our days for? That we are either boring people with no enthusiasm to start our days or busy people who look forward to being spammed by mails.

I asked if I could make a change to how I start my day. I want to start the day positively, i.e. to plan how I intend to make 3 differences to my day and to look forward at how I can value-add to myself & the people around. And I know I can.