Shout out here to my team-mates at who are constantly learning by inventing and pushing the boundaries of their own comfort zones. Especially maybe the things that we're not yet comfortable with. I even ended up going to work as an in-house design and construction coach on the owner's side, for one of my former clients.Īlthough I happened to study business, thanks to Bill's prompting over our beers together, all sorts of lifelong learning are broadening. I could understand my clients' work much better.
I became better at team leadership and project management. I never intended to start a new career as a business person, so I simply applied what I learned to my work as an architect. In the end, what I got by stepping outside my comfort zone was a broader me who found interest in a greater part of the world around me. I was also surprised by how my analytical problem-solving skills as an architect were so relevant to the business school assignments, for example the team projects to respond to the Harvard Business School Cases that are a staple of MBA programs. In spite of the discomfort, I was surprised by how excited I felt about finally learning the details of these previously mysterious subjects. It was maybe like studying Greek, although I still haven't tried to study Greek. All those classes that I had avoided- statistics, accounting, finance, business law, and so on- were now on my schedule for the next 16 months. Right away, the curriculum was way out of my comfort zone. Shout out here to my family and to my employer, who all put up with this unexpected move on my part. I was the one of us who ended up actually going to business school.
Still, when someone fun suggests that something would be fun, it can seem like it has a better likelihood of actually being more fun than one would think. I had avoided business classes like the plague. Lifelong learning expands your comfort zone! Almost 25 years ago, while my best friend Bill and I were having some beers together at an AIA event, he said "Wouldn't it be fun to get an MBA?" This wasn't my idea of fun.
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