This day was in fact a long day, but with only two sessions before lunch. The most interesting one was the motivational speech by Benjamin Zander, the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic. This was without any doubt one of the most constructive talks I had ever attended (from an external speaker). It was all about the art of possibility, which is in fact a method to approach the daily things in life. Every time you can say or do something in a conversation, you have the opportunity to be remarkable and to make somebody else feel special. You always have the opportunity to make things better for yourself or for others and it all depends on what you say and how you approach the situation as it presents itself.

At the end of the session, every attendee from Western Europe (the session was for this region) received a copy from the book Zander co-authored with his wife Rosamund Stone Zander (The Art of Possibility). If there is one book you should really read, let it be this one… it’s super. I started reading when I got home and I have serious difficulties of letting it go. It reads like a train. I think it’s very inspiring.

Then we had to grab a lunch bag and head for the buses to go to the main arena again for the closing presentations of Ray Ozzie, Craig Mundie and a lot of others. A few cool things where shown like 3D Photosynth for instance. Then Kevin Turner, who highlighted some social programs, closed the MGX event with ‘go dos’ (not DOS, DOs :p)

In the meanwhile it started to rain outside, and unfortunately enough, the attendee event was open-air. Cheryl Crow was going to perform live… but I had a dinner with Hans, Kurt and Christian and by the time that ended it wasn’t really worth it to go to the event anymore… and it was still raining. So we all headed to our hotels and started packing for the flight home the next day.

I had a good sleep and woke up at 9, then headed to the airport at 10 together with Hans and Kurt. Then I met up with KissMyBreeze Kris and Ritchie Houtmeyers and we went for a drink in the Fox bar, some shopping and a burger.

We got on the flight to New York at 3PM and paused for a Sam Adams in a bar at Kennedy airport. Then we headed for Brussels in an underbooked plane and I got 3 seats in the middle… I turned on my Zune and slept mostly all the way back. Awesome and waaaaay better than business class :)