The other day, after work, I met Jazz and Sam at our usual spot for coffee. In the midst of our conversation, Sam was saying that during his lecture, he gave his student a task to do, sort of an experiment. He whispered to one of the student an information, and ask him to pass it around in the same manner that he did. In the end of the circle, the information had become so severely distorted that the original essence of what supposedly to be the most important information has fell out from the communication.

Ironically, I have just recently read a book on the same topic. Although I have done this experiment many times during my classes and most of the courses that I've attended. Of course working in a financial sector, it is important to know what kind of info that we need to keep. Furthermore, I was working in the stat board that promotes productivity and training.

But basically, it also crucial in our daily lives. How many times have we come across gossipers who likes to distort the truth. These are people who we can live without.

Though gossip may start out based on fact, the facts soon evaporate. If you believed everything you heard about everyone you met, you might trust very few people and have few friends. Obviously, if the whole town swears that Honest Harry is a two-timing gangster, you may want to take heed, but for the most part, take people as you find them and don't be swayed by rumour. Make up your own mind. Where possible, get the real story from the horse's mouth before you act. - By Andrew Matthews, author of "Being Happy"