Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth
Essay No. 01
Broth means thin meat soup. If too many cooks try to make it, they would certainly spoil it. One cook can do it better. Different instructions from many cooks would do more harm than good. The same way too many people involved in the particular task at one time, make everyone confused.
One day, we prepared charts for our annual inspection. There were about twenty beautiful charts. Our history teacher came and asked us to change the position of some of the charts. Everyone obeyed him. He was not satisfied with the position of some of the charts. He ordered us to remove these charts. We obeyed him. Then came our English teacher. He asked to remove charts and refix them according to his plan. We did as he asked us to do. In two hours we had to shift the charts four times from one wall to another yet the teacher was not satisfied, as everything seemed confused. The result was that all the charts were spoiled as there were too many people involved in the same work.
Once I painted a beautiful scenery. I placed it in my room. I called my four friends who were good at painting. I asked them, one by one, to make improvements in the painting. Each of them tried his hand at the painting. When I returned after one hour I looked at the painting. It was completely spoiled.
When I passed tenth class, my father consulted many men as to which subjects I should choose. It was a question of my future career. All of them expressed different opinions. Some said that I should take up engineering group because there is a great demand of engineers. The second one said that I should take up. History and Sanskrit. I kept on getting confused Thank God my father did not act upon their advice. He allowed me to take up the subjects of my choice.
Essay No. 02
Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth
It is an old proverb that too many cooks spoil the broth. Most probably this proverb must have come out of experience. A few cooks might have been set to prepare soup when every-one must have tried his own skill. In result the soup when everyone must have tried his own skill. In result, the soup was spoilt also leads us to a conclusion that if responsibility for doing a particular job is divided among many people. it no longer remain a proper responsibility but becomes no man’s responsibility, As in the matter of cooking, one should work in a systematic way. A task can be successfully completed only if one adheres to a particular system. It must be learnt from the experience of many that it is not necessary to engage so many persons to do a job, whether it is big or small. It often results in confusion which may become difficult to be sorted out. The haphazard division of responsibility can be more harmful being good. The proverb, therefore, very truly implies that the same work should not be entrusted to many persons so as to avoid waste of time and energy.
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