Learning Necessary Life Skills: Planning, Execution and Dialogue

Our first topic was, “How do I work toward something when I don’t know what it is?” However, in the process we began to answer other questions.

We all picked a topic from the Big Questions document that we would be interested in discussing. After, we thought about how answerable the question was. For example, one of the options was, “Am I wasting time that I will regret later?” This is an amazing question! I think about this all the time. However, I don’t believe it’s a good conversation starter. I feel this way because I can easily sum the answer up to “Yes, I know I am." That is all I desire to say about that topic. If I were to be made to go further by being asked why? Then I would say “I try to be productive, laziness is not a virtue, but the concept of time is different and wasting that time is what I feel like doing now!” “At the end of the day I can only live in the now.” Any further discussion of this topic would be pointless and repetitive in my opinion. We thought the question we chose would be more thought provoking at the time.

We marketed the conversation by creating a poster. The poster was simple only stating when we were holding the event, the location, and what the topic would be. However, we knew that word of mouth would be a better route with something like this. Because of this, we relayed a lot on inviting friends and our classmates from Art and Science of Management. Since a huge group wasn’t required, we didn’t stress major advertisement.

We had didn’t have much of a turnout, It was us and two friends who were able to attend. If we would have planned for a better time maybe more people would have shown. I know a few of the people who I marketed to weren’t available during the time we were meeting. However...

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...was better in some aspects. It expanded my thinking on the future of technology in America and how there is so much to life that we don’t know. I also thought a lot about how strong our beliefs are and how much of a pull they can have on us.

Dialogue is definitely a process that I will use in other situations in my life. Whenever I need to make a decisions or do some type of planning that involves another person I believe dialogue will be necessary. Even in everyday life dialogue is essential in our ability to coexist. I believe being able to have a respectable dialogue with someone regardless of if you agree with them or not is a necessary skill to have. It is good because it can help expand your viewpoint on topics. Having dialogue with someone whose viewpoint defers from your own, allows you to get to a mutual place with that person instead of debating arguing.