just under the deadline!

We talked about our feelings on competition yesterday. I personally don’t care for it and try not to take part in it. If I have to I will try my hardest to win unless I don’t care about the outcome. Then we went over the 3 secrets of winning. What are these mystical concepts that assure success? First you must know the score. You must find out how you keep score in whatever it is you do. Along with this you must be in the right game. Second you must hang out with winners. You must determine who needs to be on your team for you to succeed and who will slow you down. Lastly you must be imaginatively positive. You must believe you can do it even when everyone says you can’t.
 
We also talked about how as a child there are lots of times when we are in competition with others for some reason and lots of them use humiliation as motivation. An example is a sock hop, where one group of kids is selected by another group and then the go dance. If you are not picked then you are usually laughed at.
 
Then it was time for the big group project. Group leaders were selected and then we played the old fashion picking teams game. Were the leaders select one person at a time in order and then the last person left is the most unpopular. After that we had free time to work with out groups and start the project. We came up with some ideas, and then started filtering unrealistic or unprofitable ones out. We ended up with about 20 that we are going to select from. All in all it was a uneventful class.