My thoughts~

I realized i really want to pursue this art passion i have. When i grow up i want to make my own cartoon movie. a movie that little kids would enjoy watching and like. I want to create something everyone would remember and know. i like to see peoples faces when they are shocked. if i am able to make an emotion come out of people then i would be glad. I want to become famous and known for the movies i make.

what i am most good at are hands on activities, seeing thing with pictures, helping people out with their problems. since i am a very short person i cant make a career doing sports. but i would like to find something that doesn't have to do with how tall you are. i would enjoy being active and make money out of it.

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When I was little I love collecting money, which made me want to get a job so I can get more of it. I thought the more money I get the happier I would be. When I got my first job I was very excited my job was taking care of elderly people, kitchen work, and storage work. I had been working there every summer for 2 years. I enjoyed working with the elders taking to them and tending them when they need. I enjoy working there but I wouldn’t want to work at a nursing home in my future. I had a friend who hated her job, but still work there because it paid good money. I would like to help her find a job that pays well and she would like. When you want a job you should always find one that you are interested or exciting for them. Why get a job you hate going in to work every single day? That would only make your life miserable. Being happy is doing what you enjoy, and when I grow up I want to be in a career that I will be happy with. A way to be happy at a work place is making sure the people around you doesn’t annoy you and are very helpful when you need it. Having a nice clean work place and make a very good environment for you and the feeling of having a clean space feels good. Make sure you have the energy to work, most people dislike being at work because they are bored from it or just tired of it. Having the right energy for your work can bring you to great success.  

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Vivian Chen Eng -101 (PM)              Happiness and Education

I would be happier if I was more optimistic about education. When most people think about education, they are filled with thoughts of boredom and stress instead of thoughts of enthusiasm and learning. I always wonder why we’re learning this. Will I need it in the future? The people who are mostly negative about things tend to be least happy and would turn it into a drowning model and a hot state. Being negative gets you nowhere. When you are positive, it can lead you to great things and closer as a well-being. Just like Tal Ben-Shahar said “Emotions are necessary not only for the pursuit of the ultimate currency but for the attainment of material success as well.”

When you were little didn’t you always think about how school would be like? Attending school for the first time I was very excited and had a positive feeling about it. I had enjoyed it a lot, there were many activities such as nap time, snack time and also play time. Who wouldn’t enjoy something as comforting as that? At that moment I though school was everything I wanted to be, it was the best. With a child mind I thought anything was possible. I told myself I could grow up into anything I wanted and I assumed if I wanted something it was going to be effortless to contain. As I got older I realized everything wasn’t as simple as I thought it would be. I started doubting myself, education began to be more complicated, and it was hard for me to concentrate in school. I came to face many problems that distracted me from my school work. It leads me thinking education wasn’t my source of happiness.

I thought going school was very useless, I thought to myself why are we learning about this, when I am pretty sure I wouldn’t need it. In school “Students are motivated by their fear of failure” as Tal Ben-Shahar explained it. Most students try very hard in school doing studying the things they don’t like to make their parents happy. I am mostly like them I would study very hard in school to show my parents my outstanding grades. As I fear of failure I was in the drowning model doing things I didn’t take pleasure in it gave me stress, I tried to free myself from the pain. Just like other students I thought about avoiding school. Students who avoid school are people who had faced the drowning model. If you don’t enjoy school you try to stay away from it. I had once thought all my problems would vanish if I just avoid school, but I was wrong. I realized running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything. People who have such negative energy towards education, it lead them to failure in life. If you just change your emotions towards education into a positive thing then going to school wouldn’t be so terrible. Trying to find something you would enjoy can make a big difference, it can change your outcome on how you view things.  I didn’t enjoy a great deal of education in school, until I had teachers who motivated me into enjoying education. My teacher made teaching more exciting for me and my fellow class mates, by having group lessons, plays and speeches. Having group lessons made it easier for me to understand what we were learning because I understood everything that was taught to me I enjoyed learning more.

Changing my emotion on education made me enjoy school even more, by being positive I took time into learning things I didn’t understand. When I take time in learning, I would learn more then I would originally have known. Another way to be more satisfied with your education is setting a goal for yourself. If you decide not to set a goal then your education might just be useless. Tony Robbins said “how people don’t follow their goals because they don’t have the right emotions.” He is right my passion is art and if I doubted myself saying everything I do has no meaning and just give up on the spot then I wouldn’t be able to grow. Tony explained his opinion on growing is a reason to give and that’s what I want to do, be able to give people my creativity. One of my strong points in life is being creative I take pleasure in seeing the expression on people faces when they are shocked to see something that amazed them so much. When I was little I always watch cartoon shows I wished someday I would be the one who makes the animation and have people watching my shows. My goal is to be a cartoonist even if I’m not making cartoons on TV now ill pursue this dream of mine. If I’m not making shows on TV I would be satisfied just drawing on a piece of paper because this is what I enjoy and motivates me. This is what I tend to do now and follow this goal of mine in the future.

I am glad I forced myself from being pessimistic into someone who is optimistic. Thinking I can’t do anything and just giving up gets you nowhere when you can be positive, saying you can do this. It won’t hurt to try, giving a chance in things lends to success. Why do kids seem to be happier than adults? Ken Robinson said it’s because “kids will take a chance.” And it’s true, they are not afraid to be wrong. We adults are afraid of taking chances, where we think “mistakes are the worst thing you can make, and the result is we are educating people out of their creative capacities,” Idea from Ken Robinson. If you don’t take a chance then you wouldn’t be able to move forward in finding your happiness in life. I was scared of making mistakes because of what people might think of me, but without the mistakes I make then I wouldn’t be able to learn anything from it. Mistakes to me are a process of growing which will create your learning capability to a whole new level. As I continue on with my education I will be more positive and it will lead me to great success in the future where I am not afraid to make mistakes.       

        

BLOG 2!~

Most people believe happiness does not come from education. I would enjoy education more if it was focused on my major, and more active instead of sitting listening to three hour lectures. Education is a gift of knowledge my gift was being creative. If education was based on my major, I would be satisfied attending school more often. I am not someone who loves to read, write or take pleasure in solving problems. If I did I would be devoted to education. Whenever I heard the words education I think of boredom, hard work and stress.

            Most teenage kids think education is terrible. They would call it something “not fun” we all know it’s not fun to study, but it is just something we all have to adapt to. Ken Robinson had said “every kid has talent but we just squander them.” I believe this is true we are educating kids out of their creativity. If education was giving people a choice of what they want to learn then they would enjoy education more. I am a person who loves to draw and I was filled with imaginations when I was little, I also think education took my creativity away from me. The more I focused on school work the more I stopped sketching. If education was more focused on my major then I would be more focused in school.

Education should be given people the subjects they want to learn from, not what they are told to learn. Forcing someone into doing what they don’t like can cause a hot state that makes them cheat off a test or even cutting a class because the class give them too much stress or they just can't handle it. The subject that I most lack of was history, my teacher constantly gave us numerous amounts of test to take and most of the question was not though to us. I had to do something about it or I would fail the class. It got me to go into a hot state to cheat off a test. If teachers gave students lessons on what would be on the test and how would you pass it. It would have students stress free and be prepared for a test. Tal Ben Shahar who tells us about the drowning model is also related to stress coming from school. Drowning model is when you feel everything that is terrible is piling up and over powering you. The drowning model cause students to cut class, thinking it would save them from all the over whelming stress from it.

People believe happiness is not education because of what they have experienced with the drowning model and the hot state. If students were never to have the experience of facing stress or boredom then they wouldn’t think of education as a bad thing. I always hoped getting educated is going to be easy but it never turns out that way. I would like it more if everything was made simpler, stress free and having one on one tutor can help make education more simple and easy. Then students would be more satisfied getting educated.