Dear Members, Friends, and Guests,
TM David started us off with very intriguing future time travel....
We learned that...
* TM Veronica would use her extra 6 hours a day -thanks to robotic housework- buying fresh groceries, cooking healthy meals, tending her garden (what plants?) and sleeping more, for sure!
* I, Ana, would like ingratiating scientists to prolong life to 150 years in a healthy condition and I would give my kids money periodically to avoid getting arsenic in my coffee...
* TM Marie is concerned that her STDs may be publicized in LinkedIn... who cares about her cholesterol??? She Won Best Table Topics Award.
* TM Pam realizes that we can't understand the life before our time - she went from an early calculator to talking to her bathroom fixtures - who cares about passwords?
* TM Aleta stated that her best years were from 45 to 55, old enough to know best, young enough to enjoy things...
* TM Christina would investigate new hobbies, volunteer, train, travel (locally?) if she had 11 extra hours a day due to hologram meetings instead of the current tedious in-person ones.
* TM BeckyJo would sing nursery rhymes if brain to text technology came about, to keep her internal monologue from getting out... because her mind is a dangerous place!
Along came the prepared speeches...
* TM Jose explained that our minds love narrative patterns and we give meaning to chaos. We at times suffer from apophenia - making connections that don't exist. Along came Sartre and Camus and complicated things with their existentialism, for Pete's sake!
* TM Marie calmly set forth how we need to have a growth mindset because otherwise we practice self-imposing limitations. She did a great job in spite of some pesky talkers, interrupters and arguers in the audience. She Won Most Improved Speaker Award.
As far as evaluations go...
* TM Randolph commended TM Jose for his good vocal variety and encouraged him to repeat the speech with his legendary PowerPoint slides and adding specific scenarios. He Won Best Evaluator Award.
* TM BeckyJo praised TM Marie for being calm and steady in the face of disruption, "nothing rocks the Rock" and, in an attempt to incite more chaos in the group, TM BeckyJo suggested that in the future an unscripted member interrupts the speech.
The Word of the Day was
INGRATIATE, verb
To gain favor or approval by being or doing what (we think) others want us to be.
Example: As I get older, I no longer actively seek to ingratiate myself with others as much.
Here's the link to the recording...
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See you next week!
Ana
Recap Writer
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