This learning matters because I realize the need to improve my soft-skills so as to ensure similar success for future events. Particularly, I need to improve on soft-skills that involve fostering positive energy and inculcating passion (Majid, Liming, Tong, & Raihana, 2012). At the beginning of the roadshow, my group was energetic and productive. We spread out to attract as many students as we could to our booth and even positioned ourselves in locations with higher traffic. With the event commencing at around lunch time, my group was able to engage around 50 students within the first 2 hours. As the crowd dispersed, the energy level of my group diminished and we started taking longer breaks and entertaining ourselves instead. Subsequently, we approached lesser students and simply invited our friends from other courses to patronize our booth. This shows that our low-energy levels resulted in lesser participation and I believe that this is an issue I can work on.

Before this event, I assumed that PG is an issue that only adults would face. Thus, I did not have passion and was not very enthusiastic about the event because it did not occur to me that PG could be an issue that concerns teenagers. However, with Chinese New Year coming up, I realized that I had made plans with my friends to play cards and mah-jong, and this makes the issue feel very real and relevant. It is especially worrisome as many of my peers and I perceive such leisure gambling to be harmless. In reality, such false perception will lead one to drop their guards down and put themselves at high risk of PG (Cluster & Milt, 1985). Therefore, it is essential that such roadshows are conducted so as to raise awareness of PG. If I had realized this earlier, my passion for the event could have been greater and I might have been more motivated to draw more students to the booth.