The background of this paper is about comparing the concepts from Deep Change that I can relate to my life experiences. The experiences I will discuss in my essay will me be the ups and down of my life through the years. In the first section of my paper I talk about my first year of college what happened to me that I had to drop out. The middle of the paper I speak of my first deep change and how that impacted my life. The last section of the paper I speak of my second slow death I am experiencing at the moment.
Denial
While reading the chapter Finding Vitality, it hit home for me. Quinn (1996) insists that, “Denial occurs when we are presented with painful information about ourselves, information that suggests that we need to make a …show more content…
I was taking classes at Pima Community College after dropping out of the University of Arizona. I had no idea what I was doing in my life, I felt as if I was drifting through life with no direction or vision. My downfall at the University was never studying and never going to class. These bad habits of mine followed me to the community college. I wasn't really passionate about anything particular during that time in my life which includes school. I was taking class after class with no sense of passion in what I was doing or what I want to accomplish. I kept drifting through school because I didn't have any other thing good going on in my life at the time. I eventually after two years got an associate's degree and was thinking was going to be my next move. The next step would be obviously be going back to a University, so I applied to Arizona State University. When I found out that I got denied to ASU because my GPA was too low for admission, I knew I was in need of some sort of change in my life. This was the moment I realized I was in a slow death. I was in a slow death since University of Arizona, except this time I was finally aware of it. Many questions were going through my mind when this happened. What’s the next step? Is college for me? Should I take some more classes and apply again next year? I needed to think of a strategy to get me out of this predicament I dug for myself. In the book Deep Change, Quinn (1996) speaks of a few strategies to help confront slow death at a personal level (p. 20). The strategy that I chose to get out of my slow death was the active exit strategy (Quinn, 1996, 23). It was the easiest way out from the alternative of facing my problems head on. Even though the deep change strategy would have been the best choice, I did experience a deep change by experiencing life in a new environment. This all started when a friend of mine was
Denial
While reading the chapter Finding Vitality, it hit home for me. Quinn (1996) insists that, “Denial occurs when we are presented with painful information about ourselves, information that suggests that we need to make a …show more content…
I was taking classes at Pima Community College after dropping out of the University of Arizona. I had no idea what I was doing in my life, I felt as if I was drifting through life with no direction or vision. My downfall at the University was never studying and never going to class. These bad habits of mine followed me to the community college. I wasn't really passionate about anything particular during that time in my life which includes school. I was taking class after class with no sense of passion in what I was doing or what I want to accomplish. I kept drifting through school because I didn't have any other thing good going on in my life at the time. I eventually after two years got an associate's degree and was thinking was going to be my next move. The next step would be obviously be going back to a University, so I applied to Arizona State University. When I found out that I got denied to ASU because my GPA was too low for admission, I knew I was in need of some sort of change in my life. This was the moment I realized I was in a slow death. I was in a slow death since University of Arizona, except this time I was finally aware of it. Many questions were going through my mind when this happened. What’s the next step? Is college for me? Should I take some more classes and apply again next year? I needed to think of a strategy to get me out of this predicament I dug for myself. In the book Deep Change, Quinn (1996) speaks of a few strategies to help confront slow death at a personal level (p. 20). The strategy that I chose to get out of my slow death was the active exit strategy (Quinn, 1996, 23). It was the easiest way out from the alternative of facing my problems head on. Even though the deep change strategy would have been the best choice, I did experience a deep change by experiencing life in a new environment. This all started when a friend of mine was