*Strengths developed
When I was in the Scouts, I got a lot of experience selling popcorn and camp cards, which are basically just coupon sets, to get money to go to summer camp. This experience made me comfortable approaching people and asking them for something. I definitely had a much higher success rate with chalk art than I did with camp cards and popcorn though. I’m not sure how much of that is from me getting better at approaching people, and how much of it is due to the fact I wasn’t asking anyone for money, but I’ll count it as a win.
*Challenges encountered and how you overcame them
After finishing the chalk drawings, when it was still morning before many people had shown up, it was very easy to engage people walking by. In the …show more content…
I have since dressed up and remembered my belt, but it surprised me that I would forget it twice in a row, and makes me worry about going for job interviews and such.
I also thought that the actual event was a week later than it was. I don’t really know why, but I thought the event was today, the 17th. It was a bit of a surprise when Heather posted on the Facebook page “Here is the final schedule for tomorrow!” and I had to do some research which confirmed that it was, in fact, the next day. I think I’m definitely ready for the holidays.
*What you have learned and how has it impacted you?
When we were brainstorming activity ideas I wanted to have a canvas with a simple picture that people could add to. The scene would expand as more and more people added to it. In much the same way, the idea evolved and expanded in my mind as I thought about it. I thought about having the canvas divided by dark lines into individual cells. I thought people would at first pick a cell and draw only within their own cell, but that eventually someone would make their drawing break the wall and interact with a previous drawing, and that after the first person set that example, that others would follow. Then I really wanted to set that up and run a experiment, documenting each person who participated and whether or not they broke the cell walls. That way we could gather …show more content…
When I planned out how I was going to construct the crown and glasses, I ended up putting a lot less thought into the crown (even though it was my original idea, and I liked it much better than the glasses). The crown turned out a lot better than the glasses - which in the end I deemed unwearable - because I put much less thought into their design, and I also spent only about a quarter as much time making it compared to the glasses. As I finished up the crown I had a lot of thoughts about what I should have done to make the crown better, including more measurements and calculations about the hight and width of the crown spikes, and a design where the spikes were woven into the ring of the crown, instead of attached separately. But I was running out of pipe cleaners, and it was getting late, so I just stuck with the crown I had. I really liked that crown. It fit well, I thought it looked good, and I’m proud of it. It is obviously miles better than the glasses, which, again, are unwearable. Maybe this physical example of the benefits of not overthinking things can help me reverse my trend of growing perfectionism. If I had more time to think and could go through many prototypes, I’m sure the more sophisticated crown I was imagining could be better then
When I was in the Scouts, I got a lot of experience selling popcorn and camp cards, which are basically just coupon sets, to get money to go to summer camp. This experience made me comfortable approaching people and asking them for something. I definitely had a much higher success rate with chalk art than I did with camp cards and popcorn though. I’m not sure how much of that is from me getting better at approaching people, and how much of it is due to the fact I wasn’t asking anyone for money, but I’ll count it as a win.
*Challenges encountered and how you overcame them
After finishing the chalk drawings, when it was still morning before many people had shown up, it was very easy to engage people walking by. In the …show more content…
I have since dressed up and remembered my belt, but it surprised me that I would forget it twice in a row, and makes me worry about going for job interviews and such.
I also thought that the actual event was a week later than it was. I don’t really know why, but I thought the event was today, the 17th. It was a bit of a surprise when Heather posted on the Facebook page “Here is the final schedule for tomorrow!” and I had to do some research which confirmed that it was, in fact, the next day. I think I’m definitely ready for the holidays.
*What you have learned and how has it impacted you?
When we were brainstorming activity ideas I wanted to have a canvas with a simple picture that people could add to. The scene would expand as more and more people added to it. In much the same way, the idea evolved and expanded in my mind as I thought about it. I thought about having the canvas divided by dark lines into individual cells. I thought people would at first pick a cell and draw only within their own cell, but that eventually someone would make their drawing break the wall and interact with a previous drawing, and that after the first person set that example, that others would follow. Then I really wanted to set that up and run a experiment, documenting each person who participated and whether or not they broke the cell walls. That way we could gather …show more content…
When I planned out how I was going to construct the crown and glasses, I ended up putting a lot less thought into the crown (even though it was my original idea, and I liked it much better than the glasses). The crown turned out a lot better than the glasses - which in the end I deemed unwearable - because I put much less thought into their design, and I also spent only about a quarter as much time making it compared to the glasses. As I finished up the crown I had a lot of thoughts about what I should have done to make the crown better, including more measurements and calculations about the hight and width of the crown spikes, and a design where the spikes were woven into the ring of the crown, instead of attached separately. But I was running out of pipe cleaners, and it was getting late, so I just stuck with the crown I had. I really liked that crown. It fit well, I thought it looked good, and I’m proud of it. It is obviously miles better than the glasses, which, again, are unwearable. Maybe this physical example of the benefits of not overthinking things can help me reverse my trend of growing perfectionism. If I had more time to think and could go through many prototypes, I’m sure the more sophisticated crown I was imagining could be better then