Luck and Opportunity: The Importance of Working as a Team

This was what influened me a lot the philosophy, from any other electives course and general education courses because, I understood the real philosophy of life. All other courses, I learned alot, but somehow, this connected me and my life. These courses are really helpful in my daily life’s and I have used my skills and tact knowledge that I got from this program.

It is very easy for people to get lost in their work, school, and personal life. Being driven and working hard is a tremendous characteristic to have, but sometimes people forget to connect with themselves. I believe it is important to be connected with yourself and set aside time for self-reflection. This class has allowed me to have that time to connect with myself, learn my strengths, and to know who I am by taking the JUNG test and DISC assessment.

In the psychological aspect of the course, we will reflect in essays as to why we want to improve ourselves. We will be provided with ideologies from many successful individuals ranging from boxers to great mathematicians and anyone in between talking about what pushed them to reach their versions of success. Philosophy and Psychology will be heavily integrated into this portion of the class to allow students and myself to develop our own growth mindsets. As a part of the course we will carry a journal document the calories, macro-nutrients, and micro-nutrients they eat as well as journal about our days to learn about actions we have done that resulted in positive and negative consequences. There will also be a push towards meditation and to decrease stress as I deem stress to be impractical way of dealing with modern issues. Through this class, I plan to improve my life by taking this course and of others allowing us to eradicate the physical aspects of not being good enough and the psychological aspect of not wanting to push for what we

After taking this course I have a better understand how so many thing shapes our minds, our thoughts and our lives. Our brain is just like the engine of a car that is the main source that makes our body function. We learn by what we see, hear and sometimes what we inherit like our behavior when dealing with the Schizophrenia disease. We must be careful of what we feed into our minds rather it is good or bad. Positive and Negative reinforcements can affect your mind, your behavior and your actions towards other individuals. I found that the people that support me daily and has helped me throughout this journey that we call life were Positive Reinforcements. It has made me feel like I can handle and accomplish anything. I was also able to suggest

Is luck a matter of preparation meeting opportunity? I'm sure there are many different views on this particular subject. I feel this quote " Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity" means that in order to get lucky in life you have to be prepared, such as having an education or being well informed on a subject.

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." Oprah Winfrey is linking luck in opportunity together to make a great evaluation on one life. Luck is simply defined as the things that happen to a person because of chance: the accidental way things happen without being planned. Opportunity is defined as an amount of time or a situation in which something can be done. Both of these two having dissimilar meanings but one has to be prepared for the other which is the key to succeed in life.

I realized that for me to really accomplish a goal I need to truly believe that this is something I need to change because if I don’t, then I don’t put in as much effort towards the goal. I also learned that there are some goals that I will continue working on after this class and semester is over. This class was a very practical class which I like because I can relate and learn better to classes like this one. The experientials helped me implement what I learned in class to my life. I really enjoyed the last set of speakers we had. The essential oils speaker and the nutritionist were my favorite and I think the most useful to myself because they were over topics that are relevant in my life. Overall, this class was helpful for learning about myself and how I handle my stress and my

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity” is a quote from Oprah Winfrey, a famous American talk show host.The speaker is trying to proclaim that an individual has to prepared to gain many opportunities and luck is not really relevant. Luck is something that occurs when we least expect it and we never prepare for it.To commence, a matter of preparation can mean multiple things and being prepared for anything always has a beneficial outcome. Everyone who is successful and individuals who achieve great things all prepared for it and did not gain it by luck. For example, all the professional athletes did not make it to the big leagues by luck, they prepared for it by practicing and putting in hard work. Many successful business did

This course has affected my development as a student in many ways. It has taught me the importance of being stress free. I have learned that using the time and stress management tools and strategies has helped me get closer to my goals. Achieving my goals depends mainly on me and being less stressful. Time and stress management go hand to hand and one doesn’t work without the other. I learned to become better at time management. This has allowed me to get more important task done and put off the not so important ones. This course has prepared me very well for my academic success. It has taught me about my learning styles and what works best for me. Although I’m a visual/ auditory learner, I sometimes find myself wanting to take things hands on. These are some of the things that has affected me in my development as a student.

I always wondered about what is success or what makes us successful individuals? Each person has a different opinion about what is success and what factors make us a successful person. In Malcolm Gladwell book Outliers, he explains that every individual is personally responsible for his or her achievements. He analyzes the factors that relates to achieving a high levels of success. One idea that Gladwell mentions is The Matthew Effect; he believes people “Who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities” are the ones that achieve that further success (30). He continues to explain how luck influences our lives and how successful we are. I agree with Malcolm Gladwell’s definition of success. In my opinion Success is a state of emotion that can be created within individuals in a positive way. In my opinion, we as individuals define what is success. According to Gladwell believes about The Matthew Effect, I had experience success and failure throw my life, which was my date of birth.

When I first began this class, I had little idea of what I wanted to improve or motivate myself towards. The concepts of the class were graspable in theory, but in everyday application, I struggled to find the drive to apply these theories to personal motives and incentives. I decided, instead to begin forcing myself into traditionally uncomfortable interactions with strangers by asking what they perceived their motives and incentives as for achieving "normal" life goals, such as completing a degree and getting a good job. As I went on doing this, however, I eventually realized this was an area of myself I wanted to improve upon: I was motivated to learn why others were driven to do things that I often thought were mundane and,

I feel like I learned a lot from this course. I think, overall, this course was very eye-opening and made me understand, and want to better understand, issues involving gender and how they effect society. I would say the one of the most important pieces of information I learned was just how much the idea of gender and gender roles influences everyday life. I had never really thought too much about the determents of gender or traditional masculine and feminine ideals before this class, and how we as a society promote and encourage the belief that a person’s gender or sex creates different innate, natural attitudes and attributes. Learning about how important society’s views of gender is, and how it affects the way we learn and think, makes me look at our culture in a different way. For example, before this class I never realized how much women are objectified and put under intense Photoshop in advertisements. This better understanding of the way society is helps me take a step back and look at our culture in a different way, and allows me to become more aware of the issues surrounding gender, sex, and the ideals of masculinity and femininity.

But, the beautiful thing about this course is that I have started to question how I want to live my life. If you had asked a year ago about my reason for waking up everyday, I would have said that the idea of earning money motivates me. The feeling of getting something for

At the beginning of this course, I kept calling it a “therapy” course. I was under the impression I was going to come out of the class a better person who has taken the time to make changes and reflect. However, as the course progressed I recognized that the class is what you put into it. The class wasn’t going to change me by doing these activities, but it was how these activities challenged me shift my priorities and simply become more aware. The only change that was going to be made was if I saw the need for it and I was committed. I think the course overall encouraged us, the students, to become more self-aware in many different aspects of our lives. In my case, I think I gained the most from the constant discussion of the importance of reflection and consciousness. Although, we focused on certain topics throughout the semester like time management, diet, and gender issues; I think the main objective was to improve my connection with myself and to realize my own potential. I believe that each person should gain something different by the end of the semester because the discussions and activities all have a varying affects. I assume that the level of immersion from students differed depending on the activity and how the student determined its importance. However, I would think that everyone in class, including myself, is able to be more open, honest, and truthful with myself. Additionally, I think this course emphasized the importance for students to always strive to

The process of learning is more complex than retaining information that is received; it is the application of the information given. If I were to explain learning to someone who has not taken this class; I would explain by definition that learning is a natural and necessary aspect of life; it is to apprehend how you learn and also make sense of the world around you and learning is crucial to our existence. Prior of taking this course I have always defined learning as the transmission of information conveyed between us. Now this course has opened my eyes to different aspects of learning that I had never thought of. It made me understand that learning encompasses the ability to think and reason, the motivation to engage, act, and the courage to acknowledge feelings and empathize. Learning can also empower me to new knowledge which will enable me to appreciate myself, life, grow, adapt and have my own realization of the world that makes sense to me.