Dr Skip Downing Worksheet

Do you choose to be a victim or do you take charge of your life to be a creator? Dr. Skip Downing is the author of a book called On Course: Strategies for creating success in College and in Life. The book is about the choice of being a Creator (with a capital “C”) and a Victim (with a capital “V”), which Dr. Downing defines as “A Victim mindset keeps people from seeing and acting on choices that could help them achieve the life they want. A Creator mindset causes people to see multiple options, choose wisely among them, and take effective actions to achieve the life they want.” (Downing, 42) David Mirman has teaching blog that he uses Dr.Downing`s logic for his students. In the blog entry, he describes a situation where a student had not gotten her textbook for the class because the bookstore was out. A second student had the same problem but instead of giving up after …show more content…
He was in an accident at work that caused him to be hospitalized and undergo an emergency surgery to try to save the eye but it was unsuccessful. A few days later after many meetings with multiple surgeons he had a second dual surgery to have 4 titanium plates inserted to fix the broken eye socket, a stent put in place to fix his broken nose, and his eye removed. I had expected him to take this process extremely hard because it was clear he was not going to be able to continue as a CDL box truck driver as he has been for 15 years. But, much to my surprise he took it well. He immediately started asking his doctors what the next option was, how does he get a prosthetic, how does he take a test to get a new driver’s license, even where he could get a fancy eye patch made. That could have been an extremely down time for him but instead he made the best out of the fact that it was only an eye and that he could still do everything he wanted or needed to