Go with the flow

In 2013, in Philadelphia, we will be hosting the cfl national championships in speech and debate. To do this, we need to find 400 classrooms that can host the competition and a few thousand hotel rooms to lodge our guests,

We have the hotels: the cc marriots, the Sheraton, and the embassy suites. The rooms have been hard to find.

Today, we visited temple university, an area of the city that one member of our committee wanted to avoid. But once I set foot on campus, I knew this was then place to be. The area had energy. The buildings were new and impressive. The reps we met were vibrant, and eager to have us.

I can see temple finding us at least 200 rooms, a number that would put our search to an end.

See, it is best to set aside prejudgements---all they do is keep you from forging ahead. Explore territories, new ones and forgotten ones.