Sunday, October 28, 2012

Metacognition: Being aware


    This first quarter has been an interesting year. I have found that my mind has been blending a lot of my classwork together from my other studies. I have noticed that my connections have been fueled by my own mind trying to find reason for all this information. 

    I constantly find myself talking about nothing. I am in my head going over what I see, reviewing what I know. My conversations may seem a bit insane but for me, it's healthy digestion. This first quarter has talked about the creative aspect of human nature. How, to be creative, we must blend all sides of the spectrum into one. Sometimes I think that I do this on a daily and in other instances it never happens. My brain tends to wander when I am as exhausted; especially recently because of an overload of course work. When my mind is wandering I pull on all the ideas that have been circulating my mind. The creativity that has been shown in humanities somehow blends into a mixture with my psych and bio class. This results in one jumbled mess of life and culture. 
     In bio we were discussing how life started with one point and that one point broke apart and grew and grew until it became the diverse multi-specie world that we live in today. This kinda of relates to the fractal topic we recently covered. I found myself going over the many different ways we use fractals in our lives. So much of our organization starts from one idea, then breaks down and down until it is so complex that I no longer looks the same. 
     So much of this class has been taking what we know of art, literature, and creativity and applying it to real world applications. We begin to focus on what we know and by how we know what we know, we make something knew. We are constantly thinking about ourselves. Wanting to upgrade and improve what we are to what we should be. If it is the pressure from parents, friends, or society as a whole. There is this inner push that we create for ourselves. Understanding that we are constantly thinking of this push is something I think we notice but not enough that we think about it. 

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Blogging Around

For starters.... Everyone is really good at writing. All the blogs I have seen are extraordinary.

ninaf2012humanities: Captured Thought: Full-blast Living
In this blog entry Nina talks about how being aware of the world and creativity opens people up to understanding the many view points of people. 

I really enjoyed this reading. Your understanding of this article was so deep that it led you to a really powerful conclusion that I really liked. I liked how you said "After reading, I understood that creative people don't want to be compared to others of the same gender, or ones of the opposite. They want to feel equal to others, regardless of gender". I really found that you saw from his article that creative people are just people who want to be felt. Yes, as equals but also as people. They don't want to be alone, separated by ridged roles, they want to fit the complexity of all human thought. I really enjoyed reading this. It gave me a new insight into how creativity can open ones mind.

samj2012humanities: What If?:Learning to fully understand thigs before I reject them.
Sam's blog talks about his realization of human viewpoints and how he wants change himself and has changed for the better.

I really like your point on how sometime you don't see everything for what it fully is before you reject it. I know I do this more that I should and suffer it's consequences. I feel like through your experience on those mission trips, as I have experienced as well because we went on the same trips, that we can only become truly more aware of the world around us from others. They gave us the ability to listen to some of the most awe provoking musicians on the face of this planet and they showed, at least me, that I can see more than what is just there. I agree that being open to new things makes the world a brighter place. If you close your mind off you fail to see what is there and the vast multitude of color life brings. I really enjoyed reading your realization of this fact of humanity.