Snake eggs

Yesterday we had another class of negotiation skills. This time it was a little more complicated than the oranges because we had more people in a group and we each wanted different things. But surprisingly we managed to win-win the situation and each be happy with what we achieved. What was more important was the process of our negotiation. In order to successfully achieve what we wanted, we had to exchange information and find out the best(win-win) solution. It was rather easy to do so because we had all our information written on a piece of paper. But imagining real-life situations where there is much more information including numbers and difficult names just gives me a headache...
We see a lot of dramas theses days where Japanese salesmen in black suits run around to attain their negotiations. In a lot of these scenes I realized how they come back disappointed. Imagine real-life. I don't think things would be better in real life...

Although this is kind of random, I'd just like to refer to what Yuca wrote in one of her blogs. She mentioned how leadership is not always a natural talent, and that it could also be nurtured. I strongly agree with her when looking at my sister. My sister was one of those girls who would rather read books at home than go out and play with her friends. She used to have very few friends. But that changed before entering high school. When she was studying and researching for her group discussion for her entrance exam, she realized that she needed to stand out to leave an impression amongst the teachers. And so she came up with the idea of taking the chair of her discussion group. She practiced how to organize multiple opinions and tried to have control over the whole discussion so things wouldn't go all over the place. And she actually entered her first-choice high school. Now she's a member of the school council, one of the leaders of the whole school. So I think this would be an example of how leadership can be nurtured. She once used to be the very quite girl who always preferred to stay behind others, and now she's co-leading a school.