Do You Trust Your Mind?

Week#3- January 30th, 2014: Not Attended 

So I didn't attend class this week. I attempt to go but I don't think it was meant to be. I drove to campus, like I do every Thursday, and when I got close to the Central Campus parking garage this is what I saw.

A long line of cars waiting to get into the same garage. Class was going to start in about seven minutes, and the line wasn't moving so I decided to cut my losses and headed to HEB instead. At HEB i saw these.

I love tulips! They're my favorite flower!

Any who, I watched the recording of the live lecture once it was posted to eCampus, and I wish I would've been in class that day! I thought the idea of dancing on your brain was an interesting metaphor for provoking imagination. All of the mind tricks were very intriguing , and now I'm beginning to build a slight level of distrust of how my mind interprets what my eyes take in visually. I find it slightly scary that we can play tricks on ourselves so easily. Another concept that I found scary in the lesson is the truth of how technology is so easily replacing humans in the workplace. Mentioning work, I completed and turned in the personal branding profile assignment this week. I took a lot longer to create my presentation than I thought it was going to take, but I am pretty satisfied with the final product. The section over Gardner's Seven Intelligences made me look at the work smart in a different light. I would think of many of the intelligences such as body, picture, people, or self smart to be personal traits of talents, but I feel looking at it in this was gives these skills more value.   

 I look forward to attending next week's live lecture and hopefully meeting up with my team soon. 

O.L.M. Reflection
My flow is listening to music such as The Nature of Daylight by Max Richter. I am a polychronic person. My personal space is brightly colored, slightly disorganized to others, and filled with lite background noise. A mental block I have is when giving strict guidelines my brain tends to stop thinking. From this lecture i took away that each people has their own quirky ways to increase their creative process in order to hit the flow mark.