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[moonwise]

To paraphrase Dave Barry:

"If I had to sum up in one word why the human race has not realized its full potential, that word would be: Meetings."

Painful. At least we got dinner. Whoever thought up these supergroup meetings should be taken out into the street and shot without trial.

Comments

[fireceremony.livejournal.com]

Yeah at least you got dinner !

[arafel.livejournal.com]

You're not still on are you? Ah, what am I saying, I have to leave to go home soon. :P Another time. :)

[hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com]

Oo! Oo! Can I make a few suggestions of my own for the firing squad?

[lordraziel.livejournal.com]

Meetings should last one hour, an hour and fifteen minutes tops. After that all you are doing is wasting peoples time.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'm taking suggestions. We'll get them all over with at once.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I'm absolutely done at one hour, unless the speaker is really interesting, and there are very few of those. You're right about timing, though. I read somewhere that a human being has an average concentrated attention span of about an hour, and tends to turn off after that unless the topic changes. Works for me.

[fireceremony.livejournal.com]

I've read the average attention span is closer to 15-20 mins... which makes 45 min max meetings and classes more sense to me...

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[hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com]

It never hurts to be efficient. ;)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd say my attention span is about 30 seconds. *grin* But like most things, I'm sure it depends on the person, and the research study just shows an average.

45 minutes for a class sounds about right to me. Long enough to teach something; short enough to not be too painful.