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Strengths And Weaknesses Analysis

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My strength includes high conscientiousness in learning. I tend to be organized, planning ahead and reading before classes such that the actual class acts as a reinforcement for my learning. According to Double-loop Learning (Smith, 2001; 2013), we often merely learn from wrong answers and try a different approach if we do not get the questions correct. However, double-loop learning requires us to understand why do we have such tendencies. Why do I always fail to see the connection between the theories and the case? Why do I find it difficult to contextualize the theories? By reading ahead and practicing the application of theories in class, I can first recognize and identify thinking patterns which hinder me from drawing links between the case and the theories. Then, I am more able to spot, …show more content…

Such applications allow me to reinforce my learning, supplement teachings and apply what I have learnt. TED talks are carefully curated educational videos categorized by different subject matters such as conscientiousness, goal-setting and sociology. By watching relevant talks by distinguished speakers, it can offer me alternate perspectives that comes with experience and maturity. For example, the video “What’s your 200-year plan?” by Raghara KK. supplemented my professor’s teachings of curating 5-year plans for ourselves. I can also pick up tips and emulate their way of presentation to have the same impact on the audience for my group presentation. Next, I can condense all the information in the form of flashcards or mindmaps in GoConqr for easy reference and to avoid going through the chunk of words in the textbook (Annex A). This forces me to recall theories, and to reflect and make sense of the relationship between the ideas I have gathered and the theoretical

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