You wake up late and have to put your hair in a bun and eat on the road, your day is shaping up to be a terrible day.
Scenario 1: But when you get to your local coffee shop to get your extra foam lattee an old man who doesn't have to rush to get anywhere sees you getting out of your car and waits the extra minute for you to get there with the door open. As you frantically rush through the door, he stops and says, "Goodmorning beautiful" the rest of your day is suddenly bliss.
Scenario 2: You fell asleep while pulling an allnighter and have to go to your midterm having only studied half of the material you needed to. Since you skipped breakfast, you decide to get the breakfast of champions, soda and a snickers. You go to press your selection and not only do you get snickers, but the machine drops some cheetto puffs as well, score. You suddenly have the confidence to ace your midterm.
Scenario 3: You wake up and decide that you are going to head to the library and write your paper. Unfortuantely it is beautiful outside and all you really want to do is play frisbee on the quad with your friends. You get to the library and cannot find an open outlet, awesome, but suddenly someone realizes that you are looking for an oulet and kindly removes their cord and lets you use their outlet. This paper isn't going to be as bad as you thought.
Why did I mention these 3 scenarios? It's a fairly basic concept. We worry and stress about these big problems, often times that we have no control over, and when the slightest positive thing happens to us we are suddenly at ease. Although we don't have the power to change the big overarching problems in someones life, we can open the door, share a smile, and buy a stranger coffee. These very small gestures can really have an impact on someones day. Not only does this cheer someone up, but it really goes to show the sense of community tht still exists in our technologically and consumer driven lives/
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
select the best answer....
We were taught to select the best answer, and there was only one way to bubble in that tiny bubble. We all used the same number pencil, why it was called number 2 is still arbitrary to me. We were all suppossed to be the same, perform the same, know the same things. Then one day when we're 22, they want us to be different.
Oh how society has lead us astray.
We've been told, if you do everything the right way, insinuating that there is only one way, that everything will work out.
Once I walked across that stage last June this all changed.
Every future employer wanted me to tell them why I was different from every other applicant, my gut reaction? YOU, society, made us all the SAME. We had standards, norms, and socially acceptable extracurricular's we were encouraged to participate in. Now all of a sudden, being different will get you somewhere?
Recently, I have realized that we teach our children from a young age that creativity is over-rated. Recently, I met a group of 5-year olds that didn't enjoy coloring. They wanted to scribble the picture to get it done as fast as they could. Essentially we have made our kids lazy, and are teaching them that creativity will get them no where in life. In actuality, we should be showing them that these things that make them different are not only the very things that make them special, but marketable.
After 10 interviews of giving the same canned answers, I realized that I needed to say something that completely wowed them. After a brainstorming session, I realized that the guy that stands on the Santa Monica Boardwalk in a suit with his resume on a posterboard is the guy that probably enjoyed coloring as a kindergartener. This entire epiphany made me realize how I will change the world. I realized that making policies isn't as lifechanging as being the one behind the scenes who must implement them.
We need better evaluation techniques, instead of seeing how well our kids can bubble in, we need something that measures how fast someone can learn a new skill and reteach it to others. Because in the real world we need to do things others do, but keep it our own. We need to keep our creativity. We need to be careful as a society that we don't turn the next generation into data packed zombies. I am a glass half full kinda gal, and I only hope that one day before it is too late, our kids are given a new outlet for their creativity, in hopes that one day when they are 22 they will be able to tell anyone that will listen, why they are special.
Oh how society has lead us astray.
We've been told, if you do everything the right way, insinuating that there is only one way, that everything will work out.
Once I walked across that stage last June this all changed.
Every future employer wanted me to tell them why I was different from every other applicant, my gut reaction? YOU, society, made us all the SAME. We had standards, norms, and socially acceptable extracurricular's we were encouraged to participate in. Now all of a sudden, being different will get you somewhere?
Recently, I have realized that we teach our children from a young age that creativity is over-rated. Recently, I met a group of 5-year olds that didn't enjoy coloring. They wanted to scribble the picture to get it done as fast as they could. Essentially we have made our kids lazy, and are teaching them that creativity will get them no where in life. In actuality, we should be showing them that these things that make them different are not only the very things that make them special, but marketable.
After 10 interviews of giving the same canned answers, I realized that I needed to say something that completely wowed them. After a brainstorming session, I realized that the guy that stands on the Santa Monica Boardwalk in a suit with his resume on a posterboard is the guy that probably enjoyed coloring as a kindergartener. This entire epiphany made me realize how I will change the world. I realized that making policies isn't as lifechanging as being the one behind the scenes who must implement them.
We need better evaluation techniques, instead of seeing how well our kids can bubble in, we need something that measures how fast someone can learn a new skill and reteach it to others. Because in the real world we need to do things others do, but keep it our own. We need to keep our creativity. We need to be careful as a society that we don't turn the next generation into data packed zombies. I am a glass half full kinda gal, and I only hope that one day before it is too late, our kids are given a new outlet for their creativity, in hopes that one day when they are 22 they will be able to tell anyone that will listen, why they are special.
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