Week 09

 Learning how to contact people and researching the person before meeting with them will help you make the most out of the conversation. A beneficial conversation is not just in words spoken but also in your body language. How you present yourself will tell the other person if you are worth their time. People cannot read minds yet; seeing how you present yourself is the very first impression you give anyone. Not only for job interviews or any other professional setting, but this can also help you in your day-to-day life.

               Asking appropriate questions and answering appropriately will help the conversation flow better and make the conversation more beneficial for your and the other person’s time. Time is not something you can get back or go into debt for, so using it in the most effective ways will make everyone happier in the long run. The people we can learn from and use as mentors have experienced much more than we have. Rick Warren says, “While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.” We can use their experiences to our benefit. This is precisely what they say about history. If you do not learn from history, you are bound to repeat it. We do not want to make mistakes we could have avoided by learning from others. This life and what we choose to do in it is a journey. That journey is not made for us to walk alone. If you take notice, you are not the only one on this planet. There are so many other people out there. They have skills and experiences that you do not, and I have experiences and skills that no one else has had. We can use this information to our benefit by learning from each other.