Secret Intelligence Service

I’ve got news. These people have secret skills that made them so successful. They’re called, “traits”. Let’s find out what they are. Most people have character traits to help them overcome adversity. They’re why some people are so successful. Here are some examples of those traits... F.D.R, our 32nd president, faced more adversity than many people may think. Ever since childhood, he had polio. He was practically confined to his self-built wheelchair. In adulthood, he had a prosthetic leg…

Cultural Intelligence is the ability to interact with people from different cultures using knowledge, mindfulness, and cross-cultural skills. The characteristics I believe I do well is the practice of mindfulness. Mindfulness is being aware of our ideas, assumptions, and ideas. In the reading text it clarifies that a person using mindful has the ability to view, attend, create, seek out, and use empathy. For instance, in the reading The Essentials of Cultural Intelligence there was a list of…

Genius. The word rings different ideas within our head. Generally the idea consists of having brilliance in every subject and a very high IQ. They’re typically superheroes or villains. Take Charles Xavier from Marvel for an example. Or Doctor Octopus. But there are geniuses who score 40-70 on IQ tests and are living in reality, not Marvel Comic Books. These geniuses are called “Savants.” Savant Syndrome isn’t a very well known “disorder.” Although, writers and creators all around are starting…

Some people believe that we have the ability to forge our own successful destinies, while others believe that a successful destiny is predetermined by our natural abilities. Who is right? Two authors, David Epstein and Malcolm Gladwell, take two different positions on this subject. The author of The Sports Gene, David Epstein, concludes that innate physical ability is an advantage over athletic practice. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers: The Story of Success, argues that preparation is…

Growing up I never really had a problem when it came to learning. It did not matter what the subject was, I always found a way to learn it. You know at that time of my life, caring about ‘how’ I learned was of no care to me just as long as I received no less than high B as my grade. I recently taken a self-assessment to see what my primary learning style is and the results were unsurprising. At 30% auditory, 35% visual, and 35% for tactile, the self-assessment reveals that I am a…

In CSS101 I began the process of venturing through my mind and I discovered far more about myself than I knew prior, I learned how to exercise my learning style in terms of skill development throughout the course of everyday learning. Learning across the lifespan has created a way for me to understand things in order to gain a deeper knowledge as I take the time necessary to explore a subject. Learning new ways to inform myself through acknowledging and understanding the best order to process…

A classroom challenge I find most difficult would be my Social Welfare class. My instructors style is strictly reading from the slides without visuals or activities to get me involved in the topic. I find this difficult for me because I am a kinaesthetic learner, meaning that I learn best if I am involved in the lecture ( by activities, class discussion, demonstrations, games, etc) Being a kinaesthetic learner I have realized that I am a hands on person. University is challenging for me because…

Plants and Gardening The thematic unit, I’m so excited about and would like to create will be on plants and gardening for preschoolers. There are so many reasons why I chose this particular thematic unit, students and teacher interaction with one another, students will get the experience of learning, through using their fine and gross motor skills as they begin to grow plants and vegetables using their hands and interacting with other students to pick what they…

us that we should live life to the fullest. We should live as if we thought that we were going to die at any moment. However, we should continue to learn as if we will never stop living. This quote tells us to be spontaneous, but yet to keep our intelligence growing. The most important key to live as if I were to die tomorrow is to live with spontaneity. If I was told that I was going to die tomorrow, I would immediately book a plane to anywhere I could. Now, I am not saying that is how we…

So many people have different interpretations of mathematics, in elementary school we learn that if you have 5 apples and your neighbor takes 3 away you are only left with 2. In middle school we were shown that there are 360 degrees in a circle and a numerous variety of rules and theorems that seemed only relevant for that section. We learned about sine, cosine, and tangent, which were chiseled in our brain. In high school we were introduced to things I didn’t know existed, such as derivatives,…