At age sixteen we tend to believe we know it all. We tend to believe that the entire world revolves around us, and that we have the world in our hands. That things will work just fine, because we say so. Now, looking back to those years made me realize how immature we were, and more crazy, through that immaturity we tend to make bad decisions. Now, at age eighteen just leaving the adolescent stage and emerging to adulthood I realized that if it were not for those bad decisions I would not be the person I am now, experience from bad decisions shape us the way we are now.
It was a January twenty something, year two thousand fifteen, I was in my English class and I was told to register for the ACT taking place on February the seventh. I was just a sixteen-year-old Junior, who its priories were her boyfriend and soccer. School was the last thing I had in my mind. The teacher went on and on talking of how important this test was, I was not paying attention until I heard the date of the test was on a game day; and to top all that of, I had my boyfriend for that class and he made a comment about …show more content…
I believe if I were to be more Cognitive Flexible in that moment, I would not find myself it that horrible situation. Cognitive Flexibility is one out of three characteristics of formal-operational thought, it avoids retreating into either emotions or intellect. Someone who is cognitive flexible they tend to reflect on their options, and avoid combining emotions and reason, and they take time to select the best solution. I was not flexible at all because I let my ego over rule me, I did what I thought it was right. I did not listen to my teacher nor the other students. I went straight to my own gut feeling and nothing changed that. I did not listen to others, neither consider my options or diverse opinions, and clearly I did not show any flexibility. I often think how my life would have been if I had taken that
It was a January twenty something, year two thousand fifteen, I was in my English class and I was told to register for the ACT taking place on February the seventh. I was just a sixteen-year-old Junior, who its priories were her boyfriend and soccer. School was the last thing I had in my mind. The teacher went on and on talking of how important this test was, I was not paying attention until I heard the date of the test was on a game day; and to top all that of, I had my boyfriend for that class and he made a comment about …show more content…
I believe if I were to be more Cognitive Flexible in that moment, I would not find myself it that horrible situation. Cognitive Flexibility is one out of three characteristics of formal-operational thought, it avoids retreating into either emotions or intellect. Someone who is cognitive flexible they tend to reflect on their options, and avoid combining emotions and reason, and they take time to select the best solution. I was not flexible at all because I let my ego over rule me, I did what I thought it was right. I did not listen to my teacher nor the other students. I went straight to my own gut feeling and nothing changed that. I did not listen to others, neither consider my options or diverse opinions, and clearly I did not show any flexibility. I often think how my life would have been if I had taken that