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Showing posts with label Outliers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Outliers. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

School all year?

School all year long? In class we discussed this after we all finished Outleirs. I believe that have school all year would reap children of many important life skills. For example how will you have a summer job if you dont have a summer? Summer jobs are important they teach about real life, which I believe is more important than the kind of "real life" school teaches us. Don't get me wrong I love school but my grandmother only went to school from 3rd to 6th grade and she is a very personable intelligent lady. You would never know she barely had an education because she learned everything she needed to know though working her whole life and really experiencing the things school is supposed to teach us to avoid. Her life was hard she moved here from another country with a small child and had to support her self. Not only this but it teaches you how to interact with people. So yeah you can see that I LOVE summer vacation! And that they shouldn't get rid of it.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

While in class they made us write short journals i am now going to share those with you.

My birht date and how that applies to what the book said.
End of April
First born
I learned that i'm sort of at the middle-end of what is, by this book, considered the top range of performance. So I have exceded my expectations but not by that much. I am the oldest child in my family and have been in accelerated classes while my brother is the youngest in his class and he is not in accelerated classes. I do believe that this book states a pretty accurate representation of my experiences.

The 10,000 hours.
My Time
I think that I have spent most of my life reading or dancing. Of course I have spent more time reading than I have dancing. I have read every night for about an hour to a half hour ever since I was probably in third grade. However I started dancing at age two at about 2 hours of class a week and that grew periodically to now 6 hours a week.

My topic of choice and why.
My topic of choice has nothing to do with dancing, which is my passion. I think that this is okay because I dance for pleasure and enjoyment. I can dance for fun forever but I know that my intellectual self will not be satisfied with it as a career. Basicly everything involves reading so that is still going to be a part of my psychological aspiration.

That is some of the journals I've written in class have to how Outleirs relates to me and why I chose this subconcious project.

Monday, October 1, 2012

In class we had to read this book called outliers, it was a great book I would recomend it, but moving on we are suppoesd to share what we larned. I learned that if I work really hard and get 10,000 hours on one single thing, and get the exact right opppertunities, oh and if I was born at the right time I can be really successful. This I think is a little ridiculous but in many cases the author proved it true. I honestly don't know what to beleive, I just think if I keep working hard and make opppertunities for myself i'll end up ok. Although I do hope I end up more than just ok.