Too sensitive or 内気な?
We have different types of training at work ranging from hardware, software, project management, public speaking to leadership improvement. These trainings are held either irregularly or regularly like every month or week by different speakers. I signed up a few this year and they turned out to be one of the most popular ones with over 200 attendees. These trainings usually happen during lunch time from 11:30 to 1:30 so our work schedule is minimally impacted.
What struck me most were some of the group exercises we have to do with total strangers in the room. For example, in one exercise, you have to do thumb wrestling with either the person sitting on your left of right. We were asked to thumb wrestle to win as many times as we can. I looked to my right and then to my left... The guy on my left seems more open and ready to get started on the exercise than the guy sitting on my right, so I just stay turned to the guy on my left. But I hestitated. Who is he? Even though we are all from the same company ... geez... do we really have to thumb wrestle...? The guy saw my hestitations and quickly introduced himself. Where are my manners? So I quickly did the same and went along with the exercise. The instruction of the exercise was to win as many times as we can ... and the theme of the training was Win-Win/Teamwork/Trust... so maybe instead of really having to wrestle to win, we should just come up with a win-win strategy on this. That was my thinking. But guess what? That guy was really eager to win so we started a real thumb wrestle... I am not sure about you, but to me, I can't help wondering 1) if thumb wrestle is really something appropriate to do with a total stranger? And 2) how clean is his hand? And 3) shoot, aren't we supposed to be all professionals here instead of being so eager to win some silly exercise? I guess I couldn't stand it anymore and started to blurt out my idea of the win-win strategy. We would win alternatively after every count of 3. Thank God, he agreed and in the end, the speaker said we got the right idea - to work together to achieve win-win. But actually, I just did not want to really wrestle... thumb wrestle.
And then there were other exercises where we have to hold hands and form circles and then form an all-tangled mess and find ways to untangle ourselves. There were a lot of close body contacts and breathing into each other... Again I was not sure about how that exercise could fly if the training was held in an Asian country. Then again, I wonder if it is just me.
Last but not least, there was one exercise about change and accepting changes. I don't remember the details except the fact that someone has to take my seat and I have to take someone else's seat. I dislike sitting on a seat warmed by a stranger. It just feels gross. Even when I was a kid commuting on public transportation, I would just sit on the edge of the seat for a few minutes before sitting on a warmed seat.
Anyway, the ultimate lesson I learned was really about myself. I am probably one of those overly sensitive people.
What struck me most were some of the group exercises we have to do with total strangers in the room. For example, in one exercise, you have to do thumb wrestling with either the person sitting on your left of right. We were asked to thumb wrestle to win as many times as we can. I looked to my right and then to my left... The guy on my left seems more open and ready to get started on the exercise than the guy sitting on my right, so I just stay turned to the guy on my left. But I hestitated. Who is he? Even though we are all from the same company ... geez... do we really have to thumb wrestle...? The guy saw my hestitations and quickly introduced himself. Where are my manners? So I quickly did the same and went along with the exercise. The instruction of the exercise was to win as many times as we can ... and the theme of the training was Win-Win/Teamwork/Trust... so maybe instead of really having to wrestle to win, we should just come up with a win-win strategy on this. That was my thinking. But guess what? That guy was really eager to win so we started a real thumb wrestle... I am not sure about you, but to me, I can't help wondering 1) if thumb wrestle is really something appropriate to do with a total stranger? And 2) how clean is his hand? And 3) shoot, aren't we supposed to be all professionals here instead of being so eager to win some silly exercise? I guess I couldn't stand it anymore and started to blurt out my idea of the win-win strategy. We would win alternatively after every count of 3. Thank God, he agreed and in the end, the speaker said we got the right idea - to work together to achieve win-win. But actually, I just did not want to really wrestle... thumb wrestle.
And then there were other exercises where we have to hold hands and form circles and then form an all-tangled mess and find ways to untangle ourselves. There were a lot of close body contacts and breathing into each other... Again I was not sure about how that exercise could fly if the training was held in an Asian country. Then again, I wonder if it is just me.
Last but not least, there was one exercise about change and accepting changes. I don't remember the details except the fact that someone has to take my seat and I have to take someone else's seat. I dislike sitting on a seat warmed by a stranger. It just feels gross. Even when I was a kid commuting on public transportation, I would just sit on the edge of the seat for a few minutes before sitting on a warmed seat.
Anyway, the ultimate lesson I learned was really about myself. I am probably one of those overly sensitive people.
posted by 學習 at 3:23 PM
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