Course Meetings

by Yahav Lifshits

First Meeting:

Getting to know each other using a meeting cycle
Getting to know and master your inner demons
Barking/Dancing
Course in ‘How to be f*ing amazing’
Mission- go out to public places and businesses and make to most of one NIS each
The winning team- succeeded in getting a 30 NIS falafel dish for 3 NIS

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Second Meeting:

Summary of the previous meeting for newcomers
Painting a portrait of the person next to you using only your weak hand or not looking at them while painting- Getting loose of shame
Try to describe the word ‘Creativity’
My passion- why did I pursue a BSc in Industrial Engineering?
Being passionate about the profession we choose (Hila’s Art)
Hagai Cohen- Lecture on Water
Creative people- Ask questions, Are curios, Not afraid to make mistakes
Thinking outside of the box – Wrong! We need to think between the boxes
Eating hummus for lunch

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Third Meeting:

Summary of the previous meeting for newcomers (2)
What would we like to improve in ourselves during the course
Dancing (led by Yuval-u)- Getting loose of shame
My passion- why did I pursue a BSc in Industrial Engineering?
Being passionate about the profession we choose (Hila’s Art)
Hagai Cohen- Electricity
Creative people- make mistakes! in the course we do not delete the mistakes we make but try and look at them in a new perspective
Thinking between the boxes- 5 thing related to honey, 5 things not related to honey and the same with chocolate
Presentations- Red vs Green, Cats vs Dogs (Including indicators on how to improve public speech and presentation)
Eating Pizza for lunch

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Forth Meeting:

8

Seventh Meeting (Meetings 5 and 6 fell on Holidays):

10

Eighth Meeting:

Next week an interview with Mel’s son
Preference for networking/entrepreneurship
Harness the inner demons until the end of the course
Hagai’s lecture on energy and fuels
Innovation is only possible in a tolerant environment
What is the scariest thing about being a creator when you invent something new?
Homework: another book about an interview we would like to do and with whom + bring unused products with a cash deposit of over NIS 50 for trade-in class
An interview conducted by Inbar with Mel
Pizza for lunch

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Ninth Meeting:

Interview and Conversation with Adar Rosenberg, Mel’s son, on soccer analysis, career, and goals
Curiosity and the academy – not learning what you know you don’t know, but learning what you don’t know you don’t know
Pursue dreams, find meaning in the search
fallback or fortress – aim at entrepreneurship from a safe ground
Success in entrepreneurship = grow
Hagai’s lecture on the need to question different aspects of global warming
Home Work: Write about The most illusory profession in the world
Falafel for lunch

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Tenth Meeting:

Conversation an interview with Steven Max Stern about surviving, overcoming, power and dreams
Class conversation about carrier and dreams
Exchanges of products up to NIS 50 (Trading)
Preparation for a job interview/networking
Job interview – preparation and maintaining tips
Notes for networking
Hagi Cohen-Product and vehicle planning
Pizza for lunch

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Eleventh Meeting:

Homework- forgiving something
A conversation on the Need to forgive
Sharing a personal experience of victory against inner demons or an improvement process
Continue on student’s books
Finding passion – either out of frustration or out of love
Hagi Cohen: management and decision-making
Falafel for lunch

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Twelfth Meeting:

Three students presented their books
A conversation on the Need to forgive
Read the book Mel wrote and discussed what the doors in his story symbolize
Homework: write a children’s book about an animal/object that was lost
Talked about the theory of the “dead author” (after the author’s book is published, he actually ‘dies’ on the book, because everyone interprets it in a different way and not necessarily in the way the author intended)
Talked about what success is
Pakale’s Pizza for lunch

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13’th Meeting:

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14’th Meeting:

Possibility to schedule an appointment with Mel, Hagai or Mel’s wife
Hagai Cohen is sick (Feel well soon!)
Decision making: on reflection and commitments
Volunteering – makes connections and improves the world
Students present – dreams, personal stories, difficulties, and coping
Shuli Rosenberg (Mel’s wife) – managed three full careers, believing in self-challenge and stepping out of the comfort zone.
Enjoy life by sticking with changes (not entering the comfort zone).
Dealing with fears and transcendence
Non-didactic lectures, getting to the situation and managing within it (dealing with the fear of lecturing)
There are no HWfor next week, just make sure to have the required amount of books
Sandwiches for lunch

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15’th Meeting:

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