Day Two was fun

This is a completely delightful bunch. They are sincere and thinking individuals. I’m really enjoying working with them and hope I can leave behind something of value; parameters and thinking processes that will bring them greater successes in their future lives.

I’m feeling guilty at having implied that I can actually compress the subject into 7 easy lessons on consecutive days, because yesterday’s session made it clear that some things need thinking and rethinking time.

I don’t want to just spew logic at these guys. That wouldn’t leave anything behind. I’d like to see that they’ve internalized some basics thinking processes that cause them to probe and question everything, not just what they are told by others but also their own thoughts in the future.

Not so sow doubt in their minds about their own thinking but to allow them to strengthen their convictions through questioning their own thoughts.

Its so easy to get carried away with a thought and get caught up in the process of doing stuff that it helps to have a method to evaluate where you are going and why, and be very clear about what you are looking for before you commit your limited time and resources to just doing.

And yet, having said that, it is equally important to limit the time you spend thinking and get a move on with doing. Thinking doesn’t bring in any moola. Doing does.

Finding that balance is not an easy thing to do, so it helps to have the tools to examine your thoughts and move on with the conviction that you’ve asked yourself the basic questions.

The responsibility of making this happen in such a short time weighs me down a bit but fortunately this is a bright bunch and yesterday’s session itself served to highlight some contradictions that would have made them aware of needing a sharper brief for themselves.

All this will help them when they are charting their own paths, but before my time with them ends, I must remind myself to equip them to ask the right questions when they go work for others.