Final Critical Thinking

The next test I took was the self-awareness test. This assessment investigates how well I know myself. My score on this test was 55, just slightly below average. It asked questions about how well I know my personal beliefs and how open I am to structural criticism and feedback. It also asked if I had a friend that I would confide in and ask for advice from. Anyone who knows my best friend and me knows we tell each other absolutely everything, argue, and debate about almost anything. She is also one of the few people whose opinion and advice I will

While the media might not directly contribute to discrimination, the media is undoubtedly a significant aspect of modern day society that influences how people think about racial issues (Royce, 2009, p. 1, 17). Many people claim that racism no longer exists; however, the minorities’ struggle with injustice is ubiquitous. Whites are attempting to keep blacks and other minority families locked into an impoverished political and economic position by using various tactics to isolate them, such as mass incarceration that stems from the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow helps us in seeing how history is repeating itself and how to legalized discrimination among the blacks and Hispanics by implementing the mass incarceration.

Overall, I learned that I am better at reading people’s emotions than I thought I was. I did not think I was the best at reading emotions, but after taking these quizzes, I see that I am actually quite good at it. I also learned that someone’s body language says a great deal about how that person feels. Body language is hard to fake, so you will be able to determine easily how someone feels, even if it contradicts how they say they

Over all I learned a lot more in both of these meetings that I didn’t know before. It made realize the importance of having an open mind. I also know I will need a lot more knowledge to be helpful to families I will be helping

There is a lot of things that I have learned about myself in the past few weeks of this course. I have learned many things about myself that I would have never known if it was not for this course. I have learned about my; self concept, attitudes and feelings. I have also learned about social influence, group dynamics and relationships. I learned about myself and how to describe the way that I am and the way that I think.

The weekly spiritual exercises, however strange they seem, really helped me figure out what kind of person I am. The prompts made me think about things that I normally would not think about. The lists taught me who I am as a person because I had to think about what makes me tired and what gives me energy. I now know that I love to be around people and I value relationships. I notice things about people even when

I really enjoyed taking the Leaning Style Inventory survey to get a better understanding of my form of writing. I learned that my preferred level of interaction is independent, while, my whole life I thought I was social. The only trait that I am already aware of being, is emotional. I do not think that there's a rational bone in my body. Sadly, that is something I certainly need to work on. I would hope that by the end of this course, I am confident enough to voice my opinions and overall have a better understanding of

I have taken several personality tests through my time with Bethel. Taking this test helped me figure some things out about myself in a new way. I got the opportunity to re-evaluate myself and see if my strengths and weaknesses have changed over the last couple of years while going through the program. And I can honestly say that yes, things have changed for me. My strengths and weaknesses have changed and I have become a more rounded person overall.

To begin with, I really enjoyed learning more things about myself because it is not a usual thing I do, and it was really interesting. This was interesting because I discovered my changes that occurred and also the changes that were to come, I found this really interesting. Secondly, I got a lot of motivating vibes from this activity because of the fact that I was excited to pursue my career path (future) and it also made me more curious. This motivation made me think of life goals like becoming a successful person. To summarize, two things that I really found interesting was more knowledge about myself, and the

The assertiveness test concluded that I am able to speak up for myself. It stated that I rarely hesitate to address issues that I am most concerned with. This is true, seeing that in situations that I feel will impact me, I go to the root of the problem to fix it. A prime example of this includes a time in high school where a teacher had given me a grade in which I believed I did not deserve. During my senior year when I received my

I know, since taking this test, that I am more apt to function better with one piece of information at a time I can structure my school learning around this. Instead of sitting down and trying to process the entire week lesson all at once I can break it up into sections and hopefully help my brain to process the information more adequately. There are many things in my life that I can apply this too and ultimately function on a higher level.

It makes me see how simple life really is. The third step in the Law of Pure Potentiality was the most difficult to obey, it still is extremely difficult for me. All my life for some reason I have been judgmental, I always made comments on others clothes or their demeanor. Not always in a negative way, usually I am just stating things that I have noticed. It is like second nature to me especially because my family and friends are the same way. After learning about this law and discussing it I noticed how much I actually do it. Everyday I catch myself going to make comments. I usually I stop myself before I speak, I do not always though. It is very difficult for me, it upsets me a lot when I am judgmental. I have gotten much better than I was. I notice how I am not judging where in the past I normally would.

It felt nice to actually be able to put words and names to the ways that I think when I am feeling stressed and negative, as well as names to describe my coping methods. It was also nice to realize I had some specific and easily identifiable coping methods in general. I think that learning the names for these things and realizing they are common will help me to more actively identify when these kind of recursive negative “should” thoughts are happening, and allow me to begin using my coping methods more consciously and actively than I have been prior to this exercise.

This transformed my way of thinking entirely. It made me understand that even though my current condition was less than ideal, things could always be worse. I learned that life can change at any moment and to treasure every day as if it were your last. Your life can change within an instance just as I have experience firsthand. Additionally this led to my increased awareness of how concussions can affect a person. This caused me to have an elevated sense of empathy for people with concussion related issues.

In turn, I learned to be more authoritative and honed my skills at being analytical which has been and still is both a blessing and a curse.