Last night’s guest lecture was very interesting in many aspects. The surrounding we sat in was very cozy and relaxed which was a nice change till all the classic lecture halls. When Björn Larsson started to talk he felt very fatherly. He had a nice and humble voice and really reached out to all the students in the class. He started to give us an assignment which contained that we had to search our sole for the last big change we had in our live. That was a very odd thing to do in an entrepreneurship course, but the content was reached. He summarized it all with saying, if you are looking for a change or need a change then you should think of the last time you had a change and try to find the foundation of that last change to reach a new change.
The next speaker was Fredrik Karlsson who is the CEO of a company called Twitch Health Capital. He said two very fun and interesting things. He said that there are two special occasions where we decide to make a change, New Years Eve and on Sundays :). There is a gym in Stockholm that sells their most membership cards within six weeks after New Year’s Eve. He also mentioned that the average member goes to the gym four times a year, no wonder that the gyms give monthly payment plans.
The most thoughtful thing he said was…
“If you’re going to have a personal change then you need to prepare, don´t rush it”
That´s something I think you should have in mind when entering the future. We should take it easy, we should take the time we need when we want to do our changes, we should think one extra time before we act. If we do this, I think we will enter a more safe and adaptive future.
Gustaf Delin (co-founder of The Foresight Group) had a nice comment as well….
“Why make it simple when you can complicate it beautifully”
Last but not least I have to mention the last ten minutes of the lecture. It felt like we were touching the future when Björn called his associate in Capetown (?) in South Africa and allowed him to give a short speech and answer some questions via Skype. I have never had a le
cture before where the speaker was sitting in another continent. Is this the future, well no, because it has already happened. But what should we expect in the future. Will all the teachers sit at home and deliver their lectures, or will we sit at home and listened to the lectures, or will there only be one big university in the entire world who gathers the best teachers and gives lectures to the students on their computers? I mean, imagine that you can sit in Stockholm and still go to Harvard or Yale, wouldn´t that be great?! That´s something to think about, how will the school system be in the future, how will the schools look like in the future and how will the lectures be in the future…..??!!
A spontaneous answer would be that it will stay the same for a long time. This is such a big institution that would need a lot of strong factors to make a change. On the other hand I do believe that lectures through the internet will become more and more popular and I also think that maybe in the future you will be able to attend any school in the world by just sitting at home pressing the keyboard on your computer, but who knows???!!!!....
That´s all for today…..
Gustaf Delin (co-founder of The Foresight Group) had a nice comment as well….
“Why make it simple when you can complicate it beautifully”
Last but not least I have to mention the last ten minutes of the lecture. It felt like we were touching the future when Björn called his associate in Capetown (?) in South Africa and allowed him to give a short speech and answer some questions via Skype. I have never had a le
cture before where the speaker was sitting in another continent. Is this the future, well no, because it has already happened. But what should we expect in the future. Will all the teachers sit at home and deliver their lectures, or will we sit at home and listened to the lectures, or will there only be one big university in the entire world who gathers the best teachers and gives lectures to the students on their computers? I mean, imagine that you can sit in Stockholm and still go to Harvard or Yale, wouldn´t that be great?! That´s something to think about, how will the school system be in the future, how will the schools look like in the future and how will the lectures be in the future…..??!!A spontaneous answer would be that it will stay the same for a long time. This is such a big institution that would need a lot of strong factors to make a change. On the other hand I do believe that lectures through the internet will become more and more popular and I also think that maybe in the future you will be able to attend any school in the world by just sitting at home pressing the keyboard on your computer, but who knows???!!!!....
That´s all for today…..
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