Katablogism » Teach-Fishing http://kaushikgopal.com/blog Kaushik Gopal's Online Journal Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:08:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Teach Fishing Theory http://kaushikgopal.com/blog/140/teach-fishing-theory http://kaushikgopal.com/blog/140/teach-fishing-theory#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:28:00 +0000 Kaushik http://kaushikgopal.com/blog/2008/11/teach-fishing-theory/ I’ve realized the saying-”Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for the rest of his life”- really does have merit. So along these lines, I’ve started a new category called “Teach-Fishing” and as usual, hope to narcissistically popularize this term on google. So now whenever you see the Teach-Fishing tag on my post, you know that I don’t merely mention how to do a thing, but rather tell you how I went about the whole process.

I found these retort-quotes on the web and scared a few of my colleagues with an occasional quick-laughter-burst:

  • Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
  • Teach a man to fish and he learns to covet your boat.
  • Give a man a fish, and you satisfy his fish craving for a day. Give him fish aversion therapy, and you eliminate the craving for life.
  • Give a man a fish and you leave yourself wide open to lawsuits. Teach a man to fish and he’ll ask for an ocean.
  • … Teach him to fish and he’ll sit in a boat drinking beer all day
  • Teach a man to fish, and you introduce another competitor into the overcrowded fishing industry. Give a man a fish, and you stimulate demand for your product
  • Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.



All quotes Courtesy: HalfBakery.com, where in-turn the real quoters have been courtesied to (get it… as in “courtiers have been curtseyed to”.. ha ha snort snort). Ok Colleague X just gave me another mean stare.
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