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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

I was talking about one particular college who was included in our leadership training, Mr. Joseph. He was one of my students in Mathematical Methods One at the start of the previous school year, and from the comments of the facilitators during the processing, I realized that there was a part of his personality that still had not changed.

This was the consistent frank admission in front of the group if he did not understand a particular part of the topic, leading to a repetition of that discussion by the professor or the facilitator.

In his case, though, I noticed that – even though some of his questions were very basic - it had not gotten to the point where the other people present started protesting that it was wasting time for the speaker to go over the same ground that otherwise the rest of the audience already understood.

For example, after being given the schedule of activities for the entire three days, he asked why there was a need for the “reflection” part of the proceedings.

Did he expect that everything would be spoon fed to them the whole time when leadership sometimes entails being able to discern the situation quickly on one’s feet?

There were also some catch phrases used in the presentations that he did not know and had to ask about after some time when one of the speakers was at a natural pause, such as the meaning of the term “short-listed”.

Now as for some of the “friends” among the participants being a bit talkative during the sessions, such as in the evening session when everyone was is such a relaxed state sitting around in their sleeping bags, or in the personality determination workshop, where they loudly questioned what types the others got, I don’t believe there was a need to address this directly by shuffling the seating arrangement in the middle of the session, as was suggested by one of the facilitators.

After all, in the second day, we were in the smaller media lab instead of the auditorium, where it was easier for the students to make themselves heard by anyone within the semi-circle of participants easily.

Session 1107 questioned often. Class dismissed.