This past weekend, I was home for a surprise party. On Sunday, we were out of things to do and decided to try something we’ve never done before. We went to the escape room in my town. I wasn’t expecting to learn much from this experience as I assumed that it was a situation where you would mostly be applying knowledge. However, I learned a lot in attempting to find a way out of the room. My family is not so good at teamwork and we are all pretty stubborn. There was a lot of fighting and not much teamwork, but once there were only 15 minutes left, we started actually working together and thinking on the same level rather than spreading out and finding things on our own. I also noticed that my brother had accidentally opened a lock and I remembered how error is so important to innovation. This accident ended up opening a pretty important door which ultimately led to us getting out of the room with 5 minutes to spare. Another thing that I gained from this experience was an idea for a paper in one of my classes. I was pretty stuck on what to focus on and one of the paintings in the room that we had to find a clue in actually was a historical one and I realized that this might be a good thing to use to prove an argument. Overall, this experience inspired me in that it led me to think about how teamwork and error are more important than I had previously thought and it led me to ideas for a paper that is due soon.
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