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Feb was an insane month, most nerve-wracking was a presentation I had to give early Friday morning on leap day to all the Learning Leaders of GE Infrastructure. Aside from combining words and saying "farting" aloud during the presentation...I don't even know what two words I was trying to say...all things considered it went well. Thankfully the Chief Learning Officer said something worse! The leaders of GE are more mature than I am and can handle it. Let's just say he used the "balls in the air" analogy and he made up his own from there...
The combo of wicked early and high stakes got me all knotted up inside but it was interesting, as I was sitting and listening to all the presentations about learning concepts I was thinking about how it's neat that Jesus taught in parables. What an interesting way to convey messages. A story. Something people will remember. It was neat to think of the son of God on this earth, teaching people important concepts, using an effective method to convey the message. As I was daydreaming about this the presenter mentioned the same thing - people remember stories and it's an effective means to relay information to your audience.
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Now that it's March, I feel like I have my life back. Afro-cuban started up tonight at the professor's house. It's been a loong time coming. So funny thing is how work has influenced me here...one of the biggest learnings for me becoming the team lead is how undefined things can be. People are always seeking structure and the way "things are supposed to be." It's really stretched me to learn how to put definition and direction to the future which seems otherwise nebulous, and giving people the vision and the infrastructure to carry out that vision.
One thing that's always been elusive to me is soloing on the conga. We've always learned the different parts (tumbao, segundo, the claves, the bells) but playing the quinto has always been a mystery. What am I supposed to play? Stay in the clave? What does that mean? Well, we were all in the zone tonight and I was the first he asked to play the quinto and somehow I just felt the rhythm, and started defining the future. It wasn't perfect or all that special...but it finally happened. Another facet of being able to do it is just to be bold, uninhibited. Something sad people have said to the effect of people in pain/druggies/[pick your poison] make the best music. Oftentimes it's true because it's their sole passion. They're not a [?] that also makes music. Here's to taking a step to better music without baggage/paraphernalia.
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At least I know I'm not alone in saying the wrong things in public.
