After the second and third week of this course, I feel as if I am seeing things in a way I never have before. The idea that stuck out to me this week is that of interaction being at the center of human thought, ideas, and overall lives. I am not sure why I was surprised to hear this, but I think it is because of the fact that I spend a lot of time secluded from others and decided that that time was interaction-less, which is not the case. Even alone, I interact with myself. I talk, think, and listen, all to myself. Without human interaction, one would go insane and society would not function. For example, I read an article speaking of a patient that had all of his senses removed and he started hearing voices. I am not sure of the credibility …show more content…
This idea is frightening to me, because it means that no matter who you are in this moment, it is subject to change. Not that I want to remain who I am at the present time forever, but what if I don’t want to be who I am in the future. Similar to this idea is the main character in the article, Five Features of Reality, who was a man living in the city until such time as he went out into the forest to live with basically a band of savages. “I saw within myself too many seeds that would grow a fungus around my brain, encasing it with mold that could penetrate and smooth the convolutions and there I would remain, not he who had travelled and arrived, not the me who had crossed the mountains in a search, but another me living only in ease and pleasure…”(Mehan&Wood 392). In this instance, after a period of time, he changed his entire reality through this interaction shared with these new people. Who he was previously disappeared and was replaced with a man that has expressed cannibalistic behaviors. Yes, he was able to revert back to who he was before and return home at the end of the ordeal, but he was not the same. He was aware of the fact that he was no longer the same after this because of his interactions and experiences. “The most important outcome of the socialization process is the development of a sense of self”(Newman …show more content…
You have no idea what aspects of yourself will remain the same and which ones will change. There are many negative aspects of myself. I am cynical, vaguely pessimistic, bitter, unfeeling, reckless, and ruthless, but I have grown to love these things. These things are what have allowed me to limit the friends that I have to those who care, to get into a good college, to have the type of personality fit to go into my career field, and to just be the me that I have become accustomed to. This is not necessarily a good mindset for me to have set in place not only because these traits are inherently negative, but also because they are subject to change. It is not wise to attach yourself to something that not only is subject to change, but something that most likely
One of the greatest privileges an individual has is the ability to comprehend the changes that come with life. Once someone feels he or she has lost this power, he or she assumes that he or she has lost everything. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” he states that “we are always in a state of becoming.” He argues that humans are constantly on the way to another state of being. He is correct: humans are ever-changing beings who don’t want to change. Humans are constantly asked who they are but how are they supposed to figure out who they if they are constantly changing? People are predisposed with the gift of being able to perceive different forms of
...nts changes, that person’s self changes. The victim of the trauma must regain control over their life through the cooperation of others. In this way, the autonomy connects to the dependence of the victim on those around them. The dependence on others to be autonomous gets destroyed when the victim is traumatized; they lose their trust in those around them and they lose their ability to connect with humanity. Related to the idea of the narrative self, the autonomous person that existed before the trauma dies and the new self must become autonomous through narration to others. In this way, the self as an independent, the self as dependent on others, and the self as the physical being are integrated with one another and cannot be divided. Just as a self cannot exist without the context of its society, society cannot be without the selves that constitute its existence.
Throughout this course, I have experienced many different forms of personal growth, but I would say the two major areas were open-mindedness and research skills. Before this course, I alway thought my lifestyle was the correct way to live because it seemed to work very well for me. However, after learning more about the Aboriginal way of life, I have become much more open-minded to other lifestyles and cultures. I no longer think of my lifestyle as being correct, but I recognize this lifestyle is fulfilling and best for me, while another culture or way of life can make someone else just as happy and be just as fulfilling for them. Therefore, I’ve grown to be more open minded and
As I planed to take this class, I thought this course would be like all other general education courses. I believed that it would be of little use to me. However, after attending the first class, my view has changed completely. I applied each and every theory to my life.
How do you adapt to change? Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Change is a fundamental part of life, and eventually everyone goes through it; it is inevitable. You will stumble across times where you will be unable to control what is taking place, and you will need to be ready and willing to adjust to what life decides to throw at you. You have to be able to find the individuals that’ll support and inspire you to be the best possible version of yourself, and are genuinely blithe when you succeed. You cannot dwell on the past and what “could have been”, willing to accept what is and what will be, ready to conquer any obstacles in your way, and you’ll most likely to be more satisfied with your results. Your attitude
This classic love story describes how people can change once they interact with other people. Moreover, this is an example of how human beings in general need interaction to be normal functioning citizens of society. Having relationships, can make a person feel better about him and can possibly revolutionize or emerge a personality that was quiescent due to lack of interaction. This video demonstrates many facets of interpersonal communication.
In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley many characters are exposed to peculiar lifestyles and from that experience grow or change in some way. The story is based off a dystopian society way in the future that uses science and technology to control it’s people into obeying and even enjoying the lifestyle higher powers have created for them. A dramatic change in scenery takes place when the main character at the time Bernard and his companion Lenina make their way to a reservation of non-dystopian conformers. There they meet the character i’d like to talk about who went by, “the savage” to people who were only curious of him or John by those who respected him and could be considered friends. John who was born and raised in what could
Overall, this course has provided me with one thing. . . hope. Hope that we will one day there will be unity among all of the human race; man, woman, child, black, white, gay, straight.
This class has been a reaffirmation of my wife’s and my amazing ability to effectively communicate with each other in our interpersonal relationship. As noted in my previous essays and journals, I really have enjoyed every chapter of the text and learned something new during each assignment throughout the course.
In the video, “Franz Kafka and Metamorphosis”, it shows in how an individual develops mentally and physically. As “‘[w]e would [...] like to determine what shape we are and what changes are undertaking effect that affect us, but when we can’t, we lose control”’ (Kafka 187). Provoking for society to misread or misapprehend any individual’s appearance and characteristics. Although, evolution has found a way to change, but not physically. If we want to change, we do not have to change our bodies, but invent something, to change our way of life. How we change, we transform our behavior, and we are the author’s of our change. Our change is resulted from us mentally. Being an outsiders is more complex, other than being misinterpreted or misunderstood, as they have to change mentally in themselves or in others, and not through physically change or
When reading the opening lecture I cringed at the thought of dealing with communication. Sort of that belly ache feeling you get when you had to do an oral presentation in front of the class in elementary school. I understand have a number of strong qualities but self-image and my perception are still traits I long to improve.
This course opened my eyes to the importance of dialogue in ways that I had not previously considered. I did not know in counseling you should only talk 30 percent of the time and that the remaining 70 percent should be the counselee’s time to talk. My typical counseling sessions in the past were about 50/50 dialogue. I thought that the counselee needed my opinion. A majority of my sessions included this amount of dialogue, which I am now understanding was not helpful to those people. Even though several people did have great results due to our sessions, they will looked to me in the future for more answers to various problems. This made the counseling relationship more dependent on my advice rather than them talking out their problem
Now the communication class is almost over I have realize how important is to have good communication skills, and how it is key to life. I have learned many things in this class for example ways to approach strangers. Another thing that I have learned how to handle conflict and how sometimes it could be good it not always bad and many others. The way I look things have change to have reach my goals. This class was has also taught me how to look in the “other” perceptive, and not being selfish by just seeing one side. All that I have learn will help me and other around me to be able to communicate better.
What is metaphysics? In the Western tradition, metaphysics concerns the nature and description of an Ultimate Reality that stands behind the world of appearances. One dominant strand holds that we can somehow come to know a world that exists undetected by our sense perceptions and unexplained by the natural operation of causes and effects. Unfortunately, our powers of sensation and perception reveal to us only a partial survey of the contingent universe unfolding around us and within us. We are part of that unfolding process, no doubt, but we have profound limitations in what we can do and what we can know. We are radically limited in our contact with the universe, and it is hard to see how, in our embodied state, we can overcome these limitations.
What is reality? Is it what we all believe? That everything exists independently from us or that everything exists because we make it exist in our minds. An ancient philosopher Rene Descartes thought of as the father of modern philosophy proposed that humans are made up of two different compounds, the body and the mind. He saw the body as an intricate machine but he was sure that the mind was completely different. He tried an experiment. He tried to imagine that he had no physical body and that he was floating around like a ghost, then he tried another experiment, he tried to imagine that he had no mind, however that was impossible because if you have no mind how can you imagine anything at all. He summed up his thoughts in the phrase “I think. Therefore I am.” Our body is like the hardware of a computer and our mind is the software. How do we know that what is there is really there? Take a chair for example, how do you know if the chair is still there if you are not there to see it. For all we know the chair can get up and go out the window and visit any place in the world or even v...