Telling a story, the story of someone else – D10

Today we started working on our autobiography. In order to do that, we had to think and write down the metaevents of our life so far. After doing this for half an hour or so, we had to group with another pioneer which we didn’t knew well. I grouped with Katarina, whom I barely knew for a little more than two weeks (since we started the MPC). The dynamic was to tell the other person my life and vice versa for 5 minutes each. Later, the other person would tell to the all the group the metaevents of his or her partner. At first, I didn’t like the idea that much, but later I figure that it was great. It was great because it made us to really listen carefully to the other person and make a greater effort to understand his or her life in order to try to tell it as precise as possible. Also it made us knew each other a lot more, create bonds of friendship, and think of how and why people behave and think the way they do. During this few days of the week I have learned an incredibly important lesson: to not judge a person before really knowing them.

Getting into math, Euclid – D7

After what I like to call a horrible day, today was pretty chill. We had a lot of individual work, which was great to free my mind, and after lunch we had a dialogue on Euclid’s preface (editor’s preface to be precise). It was not interesting at all. I think it was because I was so sleepy and talking about a math book’s preface made by the editor was not that encouraging either. I took something really positive though. It was a reflection about how people are willing to protect something really valuable for mankind, such as Euclid’s geometry books. Can you imagine how many people participated in keeping that book safe? So you can later say: “Well, screw that book, I don’t like math anyways”?