Hello, hello, you to the M family. How are we doing? Can you hear me?
How you doing? Right so my electric bike broke for the 31st time again some on the manual bike as a result I'm slightly running late because my students are late so that's the update
I'll be at home in the next five minutes so I'm running on five gear that's number one and number two is that GM how you doing? I'm doing well man I would say that's how you're doing but it sounds like I already know how you're doing you're on a bike yes
like on a manual bike right now on the road doing about I would say 25 miles per hour with one hand and the other hand is on the spaces yeah it sounds like it how was your trip dude oh dude it was nuts it was absolutely nuts
the board of directors work is mentally exhausting to the point. Oh man, every time I have to go on one of these trips, I don't like that it disrupts my schedule and I have to stop doing all the things I normally do because I'm going to get back, I have to do twice as much of them. You know how it goes. If you start neglecting things, they pile up, right? So I couldn't do that and I always get#
I don't like it and then I have to get up at 4.30 in the morning and go to the airport and I don't get into the where I'm supposed to be till 5 p.m. Western times. Just like there's always 16 hours of travel because when you live in a minor metropolitan area like this you have to take two flights to get anywhere. So I always have to take off flight to get to a major area and then the flight to go#
It's always like 48 hours of traveling. It's a lot to get there and back to San Francisco. But the three or four days that I was there doing the actual Board of Directors work, I always forget how valuable it is not only to the organization to have nine people so dedicated and so diverse
pushing for the same strategic planning effort, something like that, and how valuable it is to me for personal development to be around those people and be subject to board facilitation by three different people who all have vastly different methods of getting people
to talk through things in a way that makes sense in a way that they wouldn't have done without the facilitation. So we had a storyteller, professional, ABC storyteller, talk us through how to address or how to how to sell a concept essentially like how do you tell a story in an effective way about something that you feel passionate about.
I was a really interesting, you know, day and a half there. And then we had a diversity trainer who's not just biological, physical, ethnicity, age, diversity, consultant, but a person who deals in neurodiversity, not just like are you autistic or not, but like what sorts of
abilities you have in terms of your ability to connect with a diversity of people, where do you fall in the spectrum of being able to adapt in situations where people come from different backgrounds than you? And what is the board, this is the big kicker, what is the board's representation as a diversity
a ray of people and does that reflect the diverse array of people that we represent who is the membership of the organization of which we are the board. And that was a kicker. That was a big deal because we're all fairly progressive, fairly open-minded people. So we've fall at the midline of, let's say, adaptation
capabilities, majority, and some leaning towards very adaptive. But none of us were leaning towards under-adapted or under-adaptive or let's say less willing to acknowledge and/or change our behaviors based on cultural differences that we perceive. And I'm betting that our membership actually falls much
more on the side of under adapted than we do as a board. And I think that makes the board and the organization come off as a leadist because we're always pushing for something that the membership doesn't fully either understand or want to understand or have exposure to. So we turned a lot of really cool leafs over.
I got to a point where like I don't know I began to see the world differently every time I go to one of these things and I'll stop the rant about how much I love the border treat but it was rainy and cold and blowing and trees were knocking over the pool was 45 degrees it was uncomfortable and almost dangerous to get in it was 10 hours a day of sitting
in a boardroom and talking and flexing my brain and I'm just sleeping in a bedroom with another adult who I don't live with. All of it was uncomfortable but I think through all of that so much growth comes. So that was how that went. It was really great. And I'm tired.