Social Links Search User Login Menu
Tools
Close
Close

Featured Shares

No content

A problem occurred while loading content.

Previous Next

99 Percent - Scoutmaster Minute

99 Percent - Scoutmaster Minute
David Madison
/ Categories: Scoutmaster Minutes

99 Percent - Scoutmaster Minute

The Scout Oath starts like this, “On my honor I will do my best…” We all need to do our best all the time and in everything we do. Sometimes we think that just doing good enough is enough, and we justify ourselves by saying, “So I missed a couple of problems on the test but I still got a high score. Isn’t that good enough?” If you could have done better, then even 99.9 percent isn’t good enough. In fact, there are some things where anything short of 100 percent isn’t good enough. Consider the following statistics.

Even with a reliability of 99.9 percent we would still have:

  • 1 hour of unsafe drinking water every month
  • 2,000 unsafe airline landings per day, more than one a minute
  • 16,000 lost pieces of mail by the U.S. Postal Service every hour
  • 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions each year
  • 500 incorrect surgical operations every week
  • 20 newborn babies dropped at birth by doctors every day
  • 22,000 checks deducted from the wrong bank accounts every hour
  • 32,000 missed heartbeats per person per year

Would you be willing to risk your life and safety, or the life and safety of others just because 99.9 percent should be good enough?

Previous Article Don’t Be Afraid to Fail - Scoutmaster Minute
Next Article New School Year - Scoutmaster Minute
Print
596 Rate this article:
No rating
Scouting Type
  • Family Scouting
  • Scouting
  • Venturing
  • Sea Scouts

David MadisonDavid Madison

Other posts by David Madison
Contact author
Please login or register to post comments.

Contact author

x

Got something to share?

Become a ScoutShare member or simply send us an email to share@scoutshare.org .


Learn more about how to join the ScoutShare team!

Learn more

Back To Top