Done!
The four-day conference is over.
More than 300 entrepreneurs from around the world came to Bangkok to talk about business and life.
It was great!
But now I’m looking forward to some time alone.
It was four days of:
“Hello. Nice to meet you.” “Hello, nice to see you again.” “What’s new?” “What kind of business do you have?” “Where are you from?” “Where do you live?”“What are you working on?”
I didn’t speak to everyone, but it felt like I did.
My brain isn’t used to meeting so many people and hearing so many stories.
Just a few minutes ago I was walking to the hotel sauna when I saw a familiar face.
“Do I know this guy? Did we meet? What did we talk about?”
“Hi, Ryan! How’d you enjoy the conference? When’s your flight back?”
Oh boy.
It’s time for a…
BATTERY RECHARGE
My batteries are low.
I’m not talking about the battery in my phone or in my laptop.
I’m talking about my social batteries.
Here’s how I recharged my social batteries today:
I worked alone in my room.
I worked by the pool.
I went to the gym.
I went to the sauna.
And tonight, because I don’t want to run into anyone I may or may not remember, I’m going to order room service.
Do your social batteries ever need recharging?
How do you recharge them?
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The social skills and connections are valuable but it’s truly energy consuming to maintain them and, of course, recharging is necessary after big events and a lot of interactions with coworkers.
Serenity, strolling in the nature, listening to calm music and sport activities can cool down the mind and recharge the brain.
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I speak every day with many people ,and after work i need silence and I whish no one disturb me, I go for a walk, go to massage ,or go riding with my bike,. Sometimes I feel as empty bag , because I share my energy during my work. Taking a nap is also useful for me, listening “music fur traumen” from James Last.
My social batteries are low from time to time. Especially if I have to talk a lot using the phone, or extremely especially if I have a huge number of phone calls. I usually go out and walk along the river side.
Getting out into nature is the best way for me to recharge my batteries. In the forest or by a lake. Sport can also recharge your batteries, as can a delicious meal on the terrace at sunset. A sauna is also very recharging, especially in the colder months.
Hello. I recharge my batteries keeping away from crowds, even normal people that I know. We all need some time alone. I love the quiet of the silence. Helps me recharge my batterys, body and soul. So relaxing…
mmmm I go to Church every Sunday, it is amazing to recharge the batteries, Really!
Each individual selects different ways to recharge his/her social “baterries”.
Temporarily personal isolation, swimming, walking to the nature, listenning music, reading a book, cooking, gardening, e.t.c
Nowdays the most of us are overwhelmed and recharging baterries is a vital and valuable neccesity not a luxury.
How much I can understand you! I feel my mental bilance for much less and it happens very often. Soon I’ll be attending the release of an antology of theater plays translated in english, including one of my own, in London, and I’ll have to talk to so many people saying intelligent and witty things, in a language I can’t manage. So I’ll only say stupid things or hide my self in place where no one will ask me a question.
Never a topic at school or within my family as a kid, I had to learn later in the course of my lifetime about the volume of my personal battery, and what it leads to when it is low. Diving into that matter I got to know that the best method of recharging battery is depending on one’s personality and preferred sensory channels. For a ‘visual’ person like me, it can just be fine to watch people going by (not talking to) or arts, flipping through a fashion magazine or reading a book stimulating my imagination. And to be quiet.
Hi Mr.Vig! I feel the same that you. I work at a customer center, then I talk all the time. On the last month, I have vacation and my choice went make the Santiago’s Way. Alone, in silent, just walking and hear the birds. But, I always meeting others pilgrims in the way and how you said: “hi, nice too meet you/where are you from/why are you choose be here”. In the three days ok, everything is new, but at four day, I need walking fast to don’t meet everyone in my way!
Nothing in the world can recharge my social batteries like listening to classical music (especially Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Chopin and Albinoni) and/or plunging myself deeply into some good books to soothe my mind. As for me, that’s a big relief indeed!