First of all, during these months being part of leadership has helped me continue building a successful and skilled leader, facing some issues which led to lessons to learn from. There were many days where I couldn’t follow up at all but I tried my best to reincorporate myself into the group’s ideas and understand everything properly to make sure I was not messing up when putting all the work into practice. I feel like I did a good job overall but, the most important part, I learned from my mistakes and overall misunderstandings that sometimes came up when dealing with other’s ideas.
Second of all, being part of leadership groups always makes you realize that there’s a lot of skilled people and that everyone is good at something. I feel like this topic needs time for everyone to consider as it can make you accept who you are as a person and see in what point of your self-growth you are. There is always a lot of competitiveness between teenagers and this makes a lot of stress for most of them and not realizing that you should focus more on your own path: how do you apply these leadership skills and how you analyze them; what’s the mindset you have? In my opinion, you should not choose competitiveness as a way of success, but focus on showing what you know and show it properly. You need to find the balance of being a good leader: not everything is a competition.
In the third place, I feel like I have improved in a certain positive way. As I said in my course goals, I joined leadership to keep me busy as a leader and not lose this sense of leadership (skills included) because the more things you do the more you realize you have a lot of knowledge and that you have an efficient way to learn and adapt to new things (as you already got used to it). I gained experience and, as I said, I realized that there’s lot of people willing to take a leadership role and give their best. This lowkey gives me motivation as working in a group with these kinds of people makes you learn, improve and succeed. I feel like this idea is important if you want to apply in your future: always be open-minded, accept others’ ideas and be a respectful person always with the intention of helping people.
Finally, leadership, apart from being useful, has also been a good experience to know your classmates, to open your creativity, your critical-thinking, to gain experience and, in the end, to see new places and activities: variety is the key!