VISION...it's powerful.

The video we all saw in class was really corny but in a way it was also very empowering.

Anyway my visions that I see for myself in the next few years are:

1. Being an entrepreneur and starting my own business, probably in the service industry.
2. Doing something wildly absurd, but attract the attention of people and become "famous" for no apparent reason and getting paid just to show up to places, because apparently there are very dumb people in the world with money, who are willing to pay for things like that.
3. Become an ASSASSIN or like a NINJA, or something because its cool.
4. Doing something outside the normal means of work, such as becoming a professional racecar driver (and no, NOT NASCAR. OOOOH, they're making a LEFT TURN! OOOH! THEY'RE MAKING ANOTHER LEFT TURN. Amazing stuff...really), but more like an Formula 1 racer or something along those lines. Just not conventional means of work would be great because its more fun and exciting than an office job.



Okay, so the one which I probably think it most within my limits to do is choice #1 because although its conventional, its still not restricted to rules that most companies have to abide by, in my opinion anyway, and it is a more free to do what you want kind of thing.
I would probably start out by opening a bar/club kind of deal, but franchising it out. Or something along the lines of Vital Dent, which a dental office, but with locations throughout the area; but instead of dentists it would be with psychologists and psychiatrists, because I know it is hard to start out with a psychology degree and hoping to look for a job. This way it benefits both psych grads and customers in this way, affordable sessions with those kinds of people and the grads can find a place to intern or start out.

In order to do soemthing like this I am willing to go balls to the walls with it and drop everything else completely to work on it because I would be 100% commited to doing it becasue I really believe in my vision(s).

Decision Making or Class Conflict?

During one of the most hands-on learning sessions to date, we were given the opportunity to take the reins and give our take on what we, the people, wanted. I thought that this was very clever and that we achieved a lot more than professor kurpis would've liked.
Interestingly enough though, it took the constraint and pressure of time to force the class to come together on what we wanted. I think that the decision making process made by the class was initially messy and was not working as it should have to begin with.
I, myself, took a relaxed approach to the whole thing while just sitting back and watching people argue over pointless little details, and using the avoidance approach allowed me to get my ideas across with some of my classmates. The screaming, the fighting, and the name-calling ( I think ) was very exciting though it didn't do much to furhter things along.

Alternatively, I believe that had everyone's suggestions just be put up on the board like we had initially agreed upon would've led to a faster solution to all conflicts. Instead, the beginning moderator took bias in what he, himself, liked instead of taking the general ideas of the class. I found that to be very disappointing as he was the one who volunteered to go and moderate for the class unbiasedly. In the end though, the class was successful as a whole, thanks to support and agreement between individuals and the adaptability of a new moderator who addressed more individual needs. This experiment was very insightful into the ways of how certain situations should be handled, and how to avoid bias while addressing the needs of everyone.

Eggs Planning

The whole planning process for the eggs-ercise was pretty unique in that people were just throwing out ideas and shooting them down, or just plain yelling things out and taking lead in certain areas.
During Step 1 of the planning process, we definitely knew that we wanted to protect the egg and we had acknowledged the fact that we were running on a short deadline. Although seemingly long at first, after the first minutes passed, there was a sense of urgency in the air. We had set a goal to make a "crown" for the egg so that it would really protect it on one side, and just a little less on the other. Near the end we also figured that if we added more weight to the heavily protected side, that it would probably land that side first. I don't think we ever went into step 2 because throughout it all our group was never really sure of where we were in terms of our design. Step 3 took the most time for the group because of the constant change and discussion of a better design so as to protect the egg more. A few of us had different ideas of the perfect design in mind, so we just went around and drew how we thought it should be made, and as ideas flowed, some parts were taken up into the final design, while others were discarded. In the end, we wounded up scrapping a lot of the little details we had orginally wanted from everyone else's desgins and instead just wound up with a very basic design with no means of absolute protection at all, that was our step 4. Finally in step 5 of the planning process we were not able to follow through at all what we had planned and instead we just tried to make it so that we were able to actually tape the straws onto the egg. Due to the fact that we had not anticipated how hard it actually was to tape on the straws, we ended up not really following any idea at all and just went with it as we put it together.
So all in all, the final product that came about was definitely not something we had thought to be very good or actually capable of protecting the egg, but because of time constraints there was no way to change it when we neared the final seconds of implementation. Hopefully though after going through with this, next time we are faced with planning something, we will be able to more efficiently use our time and maybe actually stick with the plan in mind.