[29th, April. 2017] Saturday meeting Topic
Howdy ! It's me Scarlett ! This week we have 3 topics.
◈ Leadership : 15 Signs You Will Become A Great Leader
◈ Future tech. : Uber's Flying Car/ AI/ a Human-Computer Brain Interface
--- Tech. 1 : Uber’s Flying Car Chief On Noise Pollution And The Future Of Sky Taxis
--- Tech. 2 : The mind in the machine: Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence
--- Tech. 3 : Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to turn cloud-based AI into an extension of our brains
◈ Art of Living : Critical Thinking/ Comperitive Skills/ Plan B
--- Skill 1 : Warren Buffett's Best-Kept Secret to Achieving Massive Success: Critical Thinking
--- Skill 2 : Mastering these skills could get you hired in 2017
--- Skill 3 : Why Successful People Will Never Neglect A Backup Plan
Hope you enjoy the topics.
With luv Scarlett
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◈ Leadership Questions : 15 Signs You Will Become A Great Leader
Q1. What is the definition of a leader? What is the roles of a leader?
Q2. Are you more close to a leader type or a follower type?
Q3. Many have a chance to take a role as a leader. Would you share your successful experience as a leader?
Q4. What time do you wake up? What is your morning ritual? For example, many successful people set each morning up as below. Make your own answer based on these cases.
Name | Wake up time | Morning Activities |
Richard Branson
| 5 a.m.
| Take time for some exercise and spend time with my family
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Jack Dorsey | 5 a.m. | Exercise for a 30-minute meditation and brews his own coffee |
Tory Burch | 5:45 a.m. | Checks emails, gets her three sons out of bed, and exercises for 45 minutes |
Arianna Huffington | - | Needs eight hours of rest time each night/ Start morning with 30 minutes of meditation.
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Steve Jobs | | What he asks himself each morning: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do?" If the answer was no for too many days in a row, he knew he'd have to "change something." |
Benjamin Franklin | | "Rise, wash, and address Powerful Goodness [God]." "Early Rising: A Natural, Social, and Religious Duty."
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Michelle Phan | 5:30 a.m. | Respond to individual user comments on her YouTube channel. |
Elon Musk | - | Make phone calls — starting around 10 a.m. — are to journalists and job candidates, or conference calls.
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Gary Vaynerchuk | 6 a.m. | Takes his phone into the bathroom to read the news. Before leaving the house, he hugs his kids for "five minutes," and calls a family member while driving to work. |
Jeff Bezos | - | Gets eight hours of sleep each night. Avoids having morning meetings to eat breakfast with his wife |
Q5. What is the basic qualities of a Great leader? Please tell us 3 crucial requirement.
Q6. What is the important qualities to be a great leader among below 15 items?
1. You empower others 2. You have emotional intelligence 3. You use logic 4. You start with why 5. You focus on solutions, not problems 6. You are a learner 7. You make others better | 8. You think outside the box 9. You are a good follower 10. You listen more than you talk 11. You give frank and fearless advice 12. You communicate effectively 13. You are compassionate 14. You ask for forgiveness, not permission 15. You are not afraid of making the big decisions |
Q7. Why do you want to be a 'Great leader'? What changes can you make for your community? Do you think you are prepare enough system for changes of our society?
Q8. We are facing unpredictable changes of our society. Things are changing at a unprecedentedly high speed. In this perspective, what is the crucial qualities of a great leader?
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◈ Future tech. Questions : Uber's Flying Car/ AI/ a Human-Computer Brain Interface
Q1. When you heard about the words '4th industrial revolution' or 'technological development', what ideas or feelings are coming up? How about a flying car, an AI or a human-computer brain interface?
Q2. When we are planning our future, we have two criteria to consider such as technological development and social preparedness. And our plan should be interwinded with those two perspectives together. In this perspective, how much percentage of people are accepting those technological development at a proper speed? Are you against to technological development or for it?
Q3. What chances could we make if we can lead the technological development issue globally? How about vice versa?
Q4. Which technological development sounds attractive to you?
Q5. If you can be assisted your brain functioning by 'human and computer interface', would you apply it to your body?
Q6. Uber released their plan for urban air travel by a flying car in Dubai and Texan city. If this transportation is realized in Korea at a reasonable rate, would you use this transportation?
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◈ Art of Living Questions : Critical thinking / Plan B
Critical thinking -----------------------------
Q1. Do you know any successful individuals like Warren Buffett or Bill gates around you? Do you find any unique characteristics of those people from ordinary person? For your reference, this article suggests 5 characteristics of successful person as follows.
- They always question the status quo
- They break down problems into smaller components and see the subtle connections between them
- They are sensitive to the loopholes in their logic
- They tackle problems with a systematic plan
- They apply the scientific method to problem solving
Q2. What is your definition of success? What components are required to be a successful person?
Q3. What is the definition of a 'Critical thinking'? How do you build up and improve critical thinking skills? For your reference, above article suggests 3 steps to improve critical thinking skills as follows.
1. Recognize the biases in your thinking.
2. Use 5 “Whys” to find out the root causes of problems.
- Why did the shipping company warehouse ship different products than what was ordered?
- Why are the online order fillers calling in orders instead of using the normal process?
- Why does each order slip have to be signed by the shipping director before it is shipped?
- Why does the shipping director have to record the information for each order this way?
3. Treat each problem like an experiment.
- Define the problem.
- Do background research.
- Construct a hypothesis.
- Conduct experiments.
- Communicate your results.
Q4. While you are reading, are you an active learner or a passive recipient of information?
10 Hottest and most in-demand skills for job seekers ----------------------------- Q5. Here are the hottest, most in-demand skills around the globe. Which skills do you have among below 10 skills? Do you have any field you want to practice in the future?