Day 6
Today was the final day of the RYLA trip. No personal training today, just the usual banana/apple for breakfast then straight into speakers.
The first speaker of the day was Kingseley, the event organizer and another favorite of mine. His talk was on gaining information, something I strive to do everyday. There are various ways of gathering information, a few examples can be found below …
- Reading
- Listening/watching videos
- Talking to people
- Interviewing
Then he explained the various types of questions which include but are not limited to …
- Open
- who, what, where, how
- Closed
- Situational
- contextualize question to a/the situation
The next thing he talked about was Briggs profiling. The various personalities are …
- Extravert
- Sensing
- Thinking
- Judging
- Introvert
- Intuition
- Perceiving
Then he talked about various skills that one can build which include, but again are not limited to …
- Personality
- Work place
- Communication
- Ability to work under pressure
- Decision making
- Self-motivation
- Conflict resolution
- Leadership
- Adaptability
*Personalities change as you go through life, whatever your profile, don’t hide behind it. It takes roughly 8,000 to 10,000 hours to become professional or proficient at a skill. He then brought up a concept called the 3rd generation theory, which was about the development of businesses. The first generation develops the business, the second generation takes over the existing structure after a while. Then the third generation takes over and normally doesn’t work as hard, thus businesses fail. Change the mindset of people from “I am ONLY … (a teacher, a social worker, a scientist, a student, etc…)” to “You are …” Delegation is key to a successful team. Look at relationships as growing people, or investing into people. You’ve got to put in the background work.
The final speaker was Tony Atkins who was also another favorite. He works for the New Zealand company Synlait.
B| ig
H| airy
A| udacious
G| oal
Goal of one of the founders wanted to double net worth every year. He developed habits to get there.
Seek advice when you don’t know
~~ I am going to wait before publishing the rest of this section, as there is quite a bit more notes and without context most notes don’t make much sense. ~~
After the final speaker it was time for the projects to be presented. I didn’t take notes, which I am kicking myself for now, but I will try to list the topics that the various groups presented ideas for. There were 6 syndicates and each syndicate was divided into 2 groups which each one chose a topic to form a project around.
S1A ~
S1B ~
S2A ~ Mental health awareness nfp
S2B ~ Social media vs mental health
S3A ~
S3B ~
S4A ~
S4B ~
S5A ~
S5B ~ Diabetes awareness
S6A ~
S6B ~
~~ I will have to inquire which syndicate group did what topic as again I didn’t take notes~~
The last activity for the camp was a competition of cars built from bottlecaps, straws, cds, popsicle sticks, and glue. It reminded me of a middle school science class that did a similar activity, except the cars had to stop before hitting a wall. It was great fun to see all of the car creations. Some worked well, and others of course malfuctioned in some way haha.
It was then time to say goodbye to everyone.
We have already planned a 1 year reunion though so we all plan on keeping in contact one way or another.
I would highly recommend anyone that has read this blog and is between the age of 18-25 to seek out your local rotary club and inquire about the RYLA camp. I enjoyed every minute of it, and to be honest my mentality going in was that I was probably going to end up working on my laptop off in a corner somewhere. It couldn’t have been more opposite. My eternal thanks to the 43 amazing people that I met during the camp.