I recently learned that it is really hard to get ideas across to people of different backgrounds and professions, especially when your ideas are idiosyncratic, or subjective.
Working in a team made up of students from different parts of the world challenged me to convey my message via various methods to various people. Because people grew up in different environment, it is really tough to come to consensus quickly if your ideas were not portrayed in a way that everyone could understood.
In other words, it is difficult to bring everyone to the same page.
Yet, I am glad I'm placed into this process, a learning process. It dares me to sharpen my interpersonal communication skills so I can more proficiently transmit a thought. This brings me to think about the importance of learning to deal with others on an international stage.
If this entire project is a play, we all are actors of messengers, each carry distinct ideologies, some supportive while others contradicting. And I believe we get better at communicating to one another in every scene past.
I pray that God continue to teach me the ways to exchange effectively with my friends and colleagues. One thing that I would like to take away from an undergrad degree is the ability to conduct mutual discourse in this diverse, globalized marketplace.
