...knowledge was Plato. He believed that knowledge was more than just wants in front of you or even what you see but something much greater. He believed there is a reason behind everything and that is part of how you achieve a huge part of knowledge. As for William Golding, he seems to expand on the point of a thought and how thinking is knowledge and power. This comes from his essay “Thinking as a Hobby”. Out of these essays, understand that there is a difference between the act of thinking and thinking itself. It destroys the idea of agreement for one to understand and come to the fact of enlightenment and true reality. The idea behind this all is that Plato has a descriptive idea of the cave, and Golding narrates an idea that matches enlighten or the unenlightened....
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...learning styles. It is a simple quiz to find out what your way of communicating and collaborating is. You will discover what it is you like most and what it is you like least. You will be amazed in what you may find out about yourself; that is if you already did not know. Taking the pathways to learning assessment and the personality spectrum was a great experience for me. It helped me recognize just a little bit more about myself. Through these two assessments I have discovered my way of learning which I had no idea of before. It was found that I was an intrapersonal and musical type of person. Also I discovered my personality was more than one. I learned that I was a thinker, organizer and a giver. The results were stunning to me because I never considered myself to be an organizer, however I knew that I was a giver and thinker, it has always been my nature. Learning Styles There are several types of learning styles that fits each individual. A learning style is just the way your brain takes in information for you to remember. Everyone has their own way of learning. Some of these learning styles are: Intrapersonal, interpersonal and musical. Each one of these styles is a unique intelligence. Someone who is interpersonal has the ability to relate to other persons feelings and emotions. These types of people can sense if someone is in a good mood or just having a bad day. This is an advantage to them because they would know what to say at all times according to the situation...
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... : Positive Thinker Specific Purpose : To inform my audience about how to become a positive thinker. Central Idea : The most practical ways to become a positive thinker are to remove the negative influences, be surrounded with positive people and know how to deal with worry. Introduction. Attention Getter “Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.’’ This is a quote from Edward Rickenbacker about positive thinking. Positive thinking means deal with life's challenges with a positive outlook. Reveal Topic. We called someone who always think positively as a positive thinker. Do you think it is difficult to become a positive thinker? Do you know how to be a positive thinker? Here I have the most practical ways to become a positive thinker. Preview of Main Ideas. The first way is to remove the negative influences, the second way is be surrounded with positive people and the third way is know how to deal with worry. II. Body : A. Main Idea 1: The first way is to remove the negative influences. (Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. Willie Nelson) 1. Supporting material : Avoid negative environment ( To remove negative influences , you have to avoid from being...
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...Professional Development Plan Personalities come in all shapes and sizes. Everyone is different and unique in their own way. Personalities range from how you act with family to how you show yourself in your career. All different personalities all make up a workforce. In this paper we will be breaking down those personalities and presenting a plan that helps improve their relationship with their work and their team within their career. Individual Assessments Working individually or on a team requires you giving yourself to your work. Depending on your personality it can either help you in your career, or hinder you within your team. On my team I have 7 individuals who work together will very different styles of personalities. Within those personalities there are the thinkers, master-minders, producers, assessor, and the perfecter. When dealing with personalities that include wanting to be right, fear of losing individuality, not like authority, natural curiosity, and someone who likes to have control it can become difficult not only to address those personalities but also to combine them in a team atmosphere. Double space throughout in APA Master-minder The master-minder with the cautious style is more guarded, less indirect, is overly analytical. This can not only help the team by being analytical, but it can also cause conflict if the other personalities see the master-mind as a threat. Since the master-mind does seem to take some calculated risks it does seem that...
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...BOOK TITLE : SIX THINKING HATS AUTHOR : EDWARD DE BONO In this book the author introduces a way of how to think. He introduces the concept of parallel thinking. He says that the enemy of thought is its complexity, which leads to confusion. When the thoughts are clear and simple, it is easy to make decisions. The concept of six hats is very simple to understand and use. In ordinary, unstructured thinking this process is unfocused; the thinker leaps from critical thinking to neutrality to optimism and so on without structure or strategy. The Six Hats Thinking process attempts to introduce parallel thinking. Many individuals are used to this and develop their own habits unconsciously. Sometimes, these are effective and sometimes times not effective. What is certain is that when thinking in a group these individual strategies will tend not to converge. As a result, discussion will not tend to converge. Due to the power of ego and the identified predilection to black thinking hat in the majority of western culture, it can lead to very destructive meetings. Even with clear shared objectives and good courtesy in any collaborative thinking activity there is a natural tendency for "spaghetti thinking" where one person is thinking about the benefits while another considers the facts and so on. The six hats process avoids this. Everyone considers and everyone looks in the same direction together. For example, a façade of a house (metaphorically speaking) and then the group will turn...
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...individuals you must develop strategies for communicating and collaborating within a group that have different learning styles and personality types. To do so you will need to know your own learning styles and personality types. My top three learning styles in order were: Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Verbal-Linguist. Interpersonal skills are often referred to as possessing people skills. Some skills related to the Interpersonal style are, seeing things from others’ perspectives, cooperating within a group, and communicating verbally and nonverbally. (Carter, Bishop, & Kravits, 2007, Key 2.2 How to put your Multiple Intelligences to work for you.). The one style that sticks out is seeing things from others’ perspectives. I can put myself in others’ shoes. To communicate effectively I know many factors go into making a person who they are; ethnic background, where they live, and how they were raised. When communicating and collaborating within a group I can understand different personalities and I am able to work supportively within in the group. My second learning style was Intrapersonal. The skills related to this style are: evaluating own thinking, being aware of and expressing feelings, understanding self in relation to others, and thinking and reasoning on higher levels. (Carter, Bishop, & Kravits, 2007, Key 2.2 How to put your Multiple Intelligences to work for you.). I think this learning style works in conjunction with the Interpersonal style. The more you understand...
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...success. Some different forms of thinking will be compared and contrasted so that there is a clear understanding of how people use different styles of thinking. Persuasive Thinking Persuasion is the art of influencing others to believe what the speaker is saying. The art that lies behind the persuader is the ability to speak in a way that is believable to any audience. As we analyze the persuasive thinker we will cover such topics as ethics of persuasion, think about what persuades us, and learn ways to analyze audiences to find how they differ from the persuasive thinker (Kirby & Goder, 2007). The main point of the ethics of persuasion that must be identified is the difference between manipulating and persuading. When one is trying to persuade people to do anything for self-gain it is manipulation, and when the persuader is trying to persuade others that would be for the good of the company or the others this could be persuading. There is a very thin line between the two and it is still hard to determine and takes a lot of time and analyzing to get it right. Knowing what persuades oneself could persuade the next, so it is highly important to take a look at self and see what it is that will persuade you. There are many topics that could be...
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...The Age of Enlightenment Directions Please save this document before you begin working on the assignment. Type your answers directly in the document. _________________________________________________________________________ Part 1 Write your answers to the following questions in two or three sentences. (Each question is worth three points) 1. Why did religious and political authorities find the idea of a heliocentric model of the universe to be so objectionable? Type your response here: 2. Which thinker does not belong in the following list, and why not? Galileo, Aristotle, Kepler, Copernicus Type your response here: 3. What are the five steps in the scientific method? Type your response here: 4. Why did most Medieval philosophers and scientists feel that experimentation was unnecessary? Type your response here: 5. Why did the Enlightenment writer Voltaire get into so much trouble in France and elsewhere? Type your response here: Part 2 Write a well-developed essay of two to three paragraphs on one of the topics below. Make sure you use specific information from this lesson and, if need be, from previous lessons. Proofread your essay to eliminate errors in grammar and spelling. (Each question is worth 15 points) 1. Choice #1: Compare and contrast the careers of Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. What discoveries did each make? How were their methods similar or different? How...
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...The Age of Enlightenment Directions Please save this document before you begin working on the assignment. Type your answers directly in the document. _________________________________________________________________________ Part 1 Write your answers to the following questions in two or three sentences. (Each question is worth three points) 1. Why did religious and political authorities find the idea of a heliocentric model of the universe to be so objectionable? Type your response here: 2. Which thinker does not belong in the following list, and why not? Galileo, Aristotle, Kepler, Copernicus Type your response here: 3. What are the five steps in the scientific method? Type your response here: 4. Why did most Medieval philosophers and scientists feel that experimentation was unnecessary? Type your response here: 5. Why did the Enlightenment writer Voltaire get into so much trouble in France and elsewhere? Type your response here: Part 2 Write a well-developed essay of two to three paragraphs on one of the topics below. Make sure you use specific information from this lesson and, if need be, from previous lessons. Proofread your essay to eliminate errors in grammar and spelling. (Each question is worth 15 points) 1. Choice #1: Compare and contrast the careers of Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. What discoveries did each make? How were their methods similar or different? How...
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...Paper 1: Application 1 Thinker, Intuitor, Feeler, Senser As a manager it is important that you are aware of the different personality types people have. The main personality types are the Thinker, The Intuitor, the Feeler and The Senser. It is essential that you know how to communicate with these different types of people. Recognizing and knowing your own personality type is key for adjusting your own style. This way you can maximize communication with your employees so they can successfully manage their departments. A few examples will be given for each type. The Thinker is someone who likes to organize and gather information. They value logic, objectivity and systematic inquiry. He or she will always stand firm and convince others through reason. They often want to be seen as perfect and have very high internal standards. If they would make a mistake, they would be evenly embarrassed as someone else but they would never show it. My dad is a good example of a thinker. When my sister and me asked our parents if we could go to this amusement park they were fine with it. Before we even started to think of a date my father wanted us to make a complete list of every hotel and possible restaurants we could go to. He wanted us to make a time schedule for each day we stayed there and what means of transportation there were. He wanted to know every little detail before he could make a definite decision. Intuitors are all about the long-range thinking. He or she works in bursts...
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...107, 08023 Barcelona, Spain YOU: 211-2112 Produced for editions Juan Granica S.A. By ADELPHI S.A., Tte. Gral. J. D. Perón 2093 Good Airs, Argentina. YOU: 953-4849 2da Reimpresión ISBN: 950-641-061-5 It is made the deposit that marks law 723 Form in Argentina - Printed in Argentina PREFACE I CAPITULATE 1. "To act as if". IF YOU ACT AS A THINKER YOU BECOME O N E I capitulate 2. Putting a hat. VERY DELIBERATE PROCESS CHAPTER 3. Intention and performance I CAPITULATE 4. To represent a paper. VACATIONS OF THE E G O I capitulate 5. The melancholy and other fluids I CAPITULATE 6. The intention of thinking with six hats I CAPITULATE 7. Six hats, six colors CHAPTER 8. The white hat. FACTS And NUMBERS I capitulate 9. Thought of white hat. OF THAT FACT SPEAKS TO ME? I CAPITULATE 10. Thought of white hat. INFORMATION OF STYLE JAPONES I CAPITULATE 11. Thought of white hat. FACTS, TRUTH And PHILOSOPHERS I CAPITULATE 12. Thought of white hat. WHO IS PUT THE HAT? I CAPITULATE 13. Summary of the thought of white hat I CAPITULATE 14.. The red hat. EMOTIONS And FEELINGS I CAPITULATE 15. Thought of red hat. PLACE OF THE EMOTIONS IN THE THOUGHT I CAPITULATE 16. Thought of red hat. INTUITION And PRESENTIMIENTOS I CAPITULATE 17. Thought of red hat. MOMENT At MOMENT I CAPITULATE 18. Thought of red hat. USE OF THE EMOTIONS I CAPITULATE 19. Thought of red hat. LANGUAGE OF THE EMOTIONS I CAPITULATE 20. Summary of the thought of red hat I CAPITULATE 21. The black hat. WHAT IT HAS OF BAD I CAPITULATE 22...
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...Professional Success December 20th, 2010 Greg Williams Communication and Collaboration Strategy Communication and collaboration is the key to success for students taking online classes. For this purpose it is important to know the different personality and learning styles of each person within a team. To create strategies to improve communication and collaboration, we will focus on three main learning styles and three main personality types. Learning Styles Intrapersonal The intrapersonal learning style learners have high levels of self-awareness. They need to have time to think before they can participate in a discussion about the issue at hand. Intrapersonal learners like working by themselves or having a major role within a team. They are not the type to interject their ideas or thoughts unless asked to do so. When called upon, they love sharing their thoughts and feel appreciated. Due to being perfectionist’s, intrapersonal learners may not do as well on tests, they tend to contemplate answers and what is the ideal answer often leaving them unsure of their choice. A better approach is to have an intrapersonal learner conduct a self-assessment. By critiquing their own work and summarizing their findings, they will feel more confident discussing their results. Musical Musical learning style people like to express their ideas through music. According to a study by Howard Gardner in the 1980’s, he released the results of years of observation...
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...Critical Thinking Complete the matrix by identifying the six stages of critical thinking, describing how to move from each stage to the next, and listing obstacles you may face as you move to the next stage of critical thinking. |Stages of Critical Thinking |How to Move to the Next Stage |Obstacles to Moving to the Next Stage | |EXAMPLE: |Examine my thinking to identify problems |Deceiving myself about the effectiveness of| | |that affect my thinking. |my thinking | |The Unreflective Thinker | | | |Challenged Thinker |I have to become of aware of the |Develop ways in creating strategy in | | |determining role in my life and of the |overcoming these problems. Such as making | | |basic problems that come from poor |goals to help better your thinking. | | |thinking. | | |Beginning Thinker |Recognize that I do have basic problems in |Start developing daily routines such as | | |my thinking...
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...Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper Jennifer Jones GEN/200 July 18, 2011 Lisa Foster Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper “Everyone has some things that they do well and other things that they find difficult. To learn successfully, you need to maximize your strengths and compensate your weaknesses.” (Carter, Bishop, & Kravits, 2007, p. 38). According from keys to college studying. Analyze the statement. People highlight their strengths to others because it will present a person’s elevated value in a particular situation or environment. Individuals rarely expose their weaknesses to others because it could deem them as “weak” or incompetent. Learning new information can expose individuals to some issues if their learning styles differ from the method used to help them obtain the new information. There are three learning styles and three different personality types that will be discussed. As well as developing strategies for them. The first learning style is taking notes. This is a traditional method use in the classroom and also in the workplace. If the individual do not want to rely on memory alone and have pen and paper handy, this learning style would work. For the student who has trouble studying by rewriting notes, may simply want to try a new strategy by using highlighters on the material instead. The second learning style is study groups. Study groups are very common in and out of the classroom. By using this style, this will help...
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...Personal Reflection Paper Critical thinking is when you use logical thinking process to evaluate things such as decisions, readings and much more. Critical thinking is developed as a person ages and the brain is introduced to critical thinking skills in order to effectively form the final tool of critical thinking. It may not be used as much if a person doesn’t employ the skills that they have been taught. How critical thinking differs from the usual thinking is the fact that there is depth. The three most significant things that I learned about critical thinking during this class are that it aides’ creative thinking, helps you better analyze things and it impacts the decisions you make. Creative thinking is aided by critical thinking because it assists in the thinking department and helps get the juices flowing when it comes to creating ideas because you have to evaluate them to see if they are worthy. Analyzing a situation wouldn’t be the same if you didn’t have critical thinking to help. When analyzing an idea or decision, critical thinking helps you answer those what, when, why and how questions that require an answer. Critical thinking impacts the decisions you make because if you don’t think critically you may find yourself in a whirlwind of confusion and frustration. When you are using critical thinking you will either get a positive result or a negative result. If you get a positive result then you know that you thought correctly, answered the essential questions and...
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