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dust of life and prefer to work in stress free environment, your imagination will fish out only such
jobs as the mission for your hero. Also, you will notice, that in a set of twelve (11 +1 blank)
situations, invariably one or two situations contain something obviously stressful. You might find
the scene of a road accident or a drowning ship or a person being washed away by strong
currents, the purpose behind giving these stressful situations is to force you in stress and gauge
your reaction.
YOU MUST IMAGINE A TASK WHICH IS DIFFICULT, STRESSFUL AND
NECESSITATES IMMEDIATE REACTION ON YOUR PART

Lesson 17
Resources

Once the hero who is the doer (is committed to the task and (what is to be done) he needs some
tools or equipment and some assistance from the people to achieve his goal. If the hero wants to go to
any place he needs some transport/vehicle, if he is to fight some terrorists he needs weapons and a team,
if he is to communicate, he must have something like a telephone or some other means-call these things
resources. The long and short of the matter is, you got to have some resources to perform your job
successfully. Resources are of four types as mentioned in the following lines :—

1 2 3 4

Human Resources Material Resources Time Money

Human Resources—In a variety of situation jobs cannot be performed by a single person. A joint
or team effort only can bring success. In your stories, the hero must delegate responsibilities and assign
a slice of jobs to his team members under his supervision. Remember there is a meaning behind every
person’s presence in the situation or the picture shown to you. Derive help from other human figures
given in the situation.
Material Resources—You not only need some ‘fools’ to follow you, but some
‘tools’ also to make your job easy. The list of material resources is exhaustive and
excludes nothing. Material resources can be accessed by one of the following ways :—
By Observation—Look carefully into the picture shown to you. You may find many resources
scattered into the environment itself. All you need is to hone your power of observation.
By Imagination or Guesswork or Surroundings :—Sometimes resources are available in the surroundings
but they are either hidden or lay behind any physical barrier. For example, if the picture shown to you depicts
rural surroundings it contains all resources of a village. Some of them may be seen obviously in the picture
while a great majority of such resources may be hidden. For instance, you may find a bullock-cart in the picture
but a tractor which is a faster means of transport in the village may not be given, though it is very much a part
of the village life.

Similarly the picture shown to you may suggest an office. Some external features of the office may
be seen obviously people, a peon, some indicative boards etc. The office might contain a host of
resources inside but because of physical barrier these cannot be seen for example a telephone, office
stationary, furniture or a fire extinguisher from outside.