Taylor Adams Reflection

Taylor Adams is not only someone who is in the learning community, but is someone I have grown really close with over the past two months. At the beginning of the school year, Taylor’s first impression of me is that I was very weird and too much. “I just thought you have a huge personality and I did not think I was going to mesh well with you at all”; that is what Taylor said when I asked her about her first impression of me. Since Taylor could not quite understand me, it would only be fitting for me to choose her to interview. Taylor’s five signature themes include: developer, positivity, adaptability, woo, and empathy; I decided to only focus on her empathy and positivity themes. Empathy was chosen because I have a tendency to not try to …show more content…
Personally, I do not understand how a person can be positive all the time despite circumstances. Here is what Taylor had to say about her positivity strength:
“Positivity will help me in my life because it gives me hope. Every circumstance does not have to be bad, I just think positive. Positivity will enable me to get through anything life throws at me. Just think positive, it isn’t that hard. You never know what the result will be. At its best, positivity shows people that I will never give up. Thinking positive about what you want to happen, just might give you that boost finish the task, such as a group paper.” (Adams) Taylor has never directly been criticized for being positive, just encouraged nor has she misused positivity. Knowing positivity will get her far with any job she chooses, Taylor really loves her positivity strength. That is understandable, if it is going to get you somewhere then use it. The conflict with me and positivity is how do you remain positive even through the worst of circumstances. Her response was, “I am not sure, you just do it.” That is a legitimate response, but it just did not help me to understand the strength