Concept

According to Jame Marcia, there are four different stages of identity that a person can align themselves with given a certain aspect of their life. The stages are diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and achievement. Diffusion is the state of having no clear idea of one’s identity and making no attempt to find it. foreclosure is the state of blindly accepting one’s identity and values that were given in childhood by family and significant others. Moratorium is when the adolescent has a vague or…

“Doing Nothing is Something” by Anna Quindlen talks about how when people are doing nothing they are actually said to be doing their best work. First off, nobody ever has time where they have absolutely nothing to do. Everybody always has things to do they just might not want to do them. So, they ignore them until they either decide to do it themselves or they have no choice. If kids had more time to do nothing it would be really helpful because no kid can just sit and do nothing. Eventually…

James Hamblin, the author of “Buy Experiences, Not Things,” states that happiness, anticipation, and experiential purchase are why people are buying experience. One of the key aspects Hamblin discusses is happiness. “Happiness is in the content of moment-to-moment experiences. Nothing material is intrinsically valuable, except in whatever promise of happiness it carries.” This quotes explains that people want to buy experiences not material objects because it doesn’t bring the same happiness…

“Are you searching for purpose? Then write something yeah it might be wordless. Paint something, it might be wordless. Pointless curses nonsense verses. You’ll see purpose start to surface, no one else is dealing with your demons, meaning maybe defeating them could be the beginning of your meaning, friend.” These lyrics come from the song, “Kitchen Sink” by Twenty One Pilots. These lyrics are one of many that speak to me and make me think about my purpose on this earth. Bands such as Twenty One…

Johnson supports his argument that our understanding of meaning is debilitatingly limited without accounting for the embodied experience of the world by examining five ways that the body engages in it: biologically, ecologically, phenomenologically, socially and culturally. Positing that the body is actively intrinsic to all these areas of life, Johnson reveals through these levels of functioning the ways that it is ‘more than a lump of pulsating flesh” (275). As I made my own ‘conscious effort…

A few years ago, I joined the club because my mom and dad had to work, but I have stayed because it has been fun. The club has been nice to me and they gave me new opportunities that I would not be able to do without them. The club has impacted my life by helping me get used to being around others, because before I usually stayed to my self and did things alone. The club also got me to meet new people that later became my friends. The club has helped me become a better person by helping me care…

Often times in life, we tend to take things for granted on a day to day basis. Things that help us so often that we fail to be thankful for. Some of these things are more important than others and they should be. Knowing that we have to breathe to stay alive is probably the easiest example of something we do automatically without even thinking about it. Or for the purposes of this class, we think about the senses we have and the impact of how much different our lives would be if we did not have…

The first time i went to ISS i was in kindergarten. I went to ISS for cutting someone with scissors. When i went to ISS for the first time i was with my best friend alex, and all we did was talk and mess around. But when i started getting older ISS was like torture, and it’s so boring now. All you do is just sit there and be quiet for the rest of the day, no friends, no one to talk to, cameras everywhere, and the teachers watching you 24/7. You can only go to the restroom 3 times a day, and…

The construct of co-rumination refers to the excessive discussion of personal problems or distress in a dyadic pair and is a common coping strategy used among close friends. Co-rumination goes beyond simply conversing with a friend by including some key characteristics (Rose, 2002). Co-rumination is marked by a high frequency of discussing the problems and negative feelings with a friend, and repeatedly returning to the same problems. There is a high amount of speculation within the pair…

In the article “Buy Experiences, Not things” James Hamblin, the author, elucidates how experiences bring more happiness than possessions, because utility of buying anything really starts accruing before even buying it, when people are waiting for an actual experience their moods tend to be much more positive, and people tend to be more generous to others when they’ve just thought about an experiential purchase as opposed to a material one. The first point Hamblin emphasizes is utility of…