Sail to the Moon
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?” ~Thomas Merton
I believe in many things. I believe in always staying true to myself and to my morals and values. I believe in upholding my code of ethics. I believe in myself. But how can I believe in all these things if I don’t know what any of them are?
That’s why the thing that I believe in the most is that I have to figure out who I am before I do anything else.
I can figure out who I am by finding things that interest me and exploring them. I can find out who I am by being creative. I can find out who I am by exercising and challenging my body. I can find out who I am by challenging my mind.
I can challenge my mind by getting an education. And getting an education in the public school system means doing your homework. Becoming educated not only means doing your homework and getting all A’s, it means grasping at a deeper understanding of your life and the world around you.
Through education and all the other things that I do, I hope to be able to cross the abyss that separates me from myself.
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?” ~Thomas Merton
I believe in many things. I believe in always staying true to myself and to my morals and values. I believe in upholding my code of ethics. I believe in myself. But how can I believe in all these things if I don’t know what any of them are?
That’s why the thing that I believe in the most is that I have to figure out who I am before I do anything else.
I can figure out who I am by finding things that interest me and exploring them. I can find out who I am by being creative. I can find out who I am by exercising and challenging my body. I can find out who I am by challenging my mind.
I can challenge my mind by getting an education. And getting an education in the public school system means doing your homework. Becoming educated not only means doing your homework and getting all A’s, it means grasping at a deeper understanding of your life and the world around you.
Through education and all the other things that I do, I hope to be able to cross the abyss that separates me from myself.
“Maybe it’s not about the happy ending, maybe it’s about the story.”
This has to be one of my most favourite quotes because of the depth behind it. In math, home-life, friends, and others, we find out the difficulties we face with one another, each and every day. Preaching something about having a rough time is not going to work unless you strike an emotion or a nerve that can make someone feel different about a certain life topic. When you experience feeling a bit left out, you will now look at a new kid and invite him over to maybe sit with you at lunch. That’s an example of compassion and how our stories tell each other what we have and have not been through. When grief hits us, we get angry, stubborn, and frustrated, all because we don’t know what to be like in our own stories. What I’m trying to say is: real-life experience and interaction builds your story book full of unique things that make you so incredibly special. It would help us in academia because it looks up into the simplicity of the world and takes what it can to learn and study from it. In Math, we study all sorts of numeric equations, compounds, and lessons, meaning we add more and more to our stories with new ways to develop new skills and to keep the spine of the book together, as we glue all of our lives together and straighten each other out.
This has to be one of my most favourite quotes because of the depth behind it. In math, home-life, friends, and others, we find out the difficulties we face with one another, each and every day. Preaching something about having a rough time is not going to work unless you strike an emotion or a nerve that can make someone feel different about a certain life topic. When you experience feeling a bit left out, you will now look at a new kid and invite him over to maybe sit with you at lunch. That’s an example of compassion and how our stories tell each other what we have and have not been through. When grief hits us, we get angry, stubborn, and frustrated, all because we don’t know what to be like in our own stories. What I’m trying to say is: real-life experience and interaction builds your story book full of unique things that make you so incredibly special. It would help us in academia because it looks up into the simplicity of the world and takes what it can to learn and study from it. In Math, we study all sorts of numeric equations, compounds, and lessons, meaning we add more and more to our stories with new ways to develop new skills and to keep the spine of the book together, as we glue all of our lives together and straighten each other out.
The Barren Wasteland
Imagine that you’re driving through a desert somewhere on a back road. Then, all of a sudden your car breaks down. You look to the passenger seat and see all the food and water you have; 2 water bottles, and a protein bar. In that type of situation the 8 Character virtues would definitely come in handy. That’s just an example of how they could help you in life, a very drastic example, yet those 8 words would help you through it all. In your Career, on the other hand, you must always remember the virtues for they could possibly greater people’s view of you as a person. Respect, is always great to keep in mind because if you can not respect someone, you definitely will not be respected. Integrity, or honesty, is perhaps the most important one of them all. To be honest just improves your moral character and also makes you realize how important it is to have ethical principles. Perseverance, or to have a purpose, is always great to think of for if you have no purpose how could you get anywhere in life. I think that courage is definitely great to have but I wouldn’t necessarily consider it to be your character. I think of it as instinct. Compassion is the one to remember if you always want to make someone and even you feel better. To make someone realize that you feel sorry or bad for them makes them know you care. Kaizen is your social responsibility which is obviously extremely important in everyday life, academia, and in your career
Imagine that you’re driving through a desert somewhere on a back road. Then, all of a sudden your car breaks down. You look to the passenger seat and see all the food and water you have; 2 water bottles, and a protein bar. In that type of situation the 8 Character virtues would definitely come in handy. That’s just an example of how they could help you in life, a very drastic example, yet those 8 words would help you through it all. In your Career, on the other hand, you must always remember the virtues for they could possibly greater people’s view of you as a person. Respect, is always great to keep in mind because if you can not respect someone, you definitely will not be respected. Integrity, or honesty, is perhaps the most important one of them all. To be honest just improves your moral character and also makes you realize how important it is to have ethical principles. Perseverance, or to have a purpose, is always great to think of for if you have no purpose how could you get anywhere in life. I think that courage is definitely great to have but I wouldn’t necessarily consider it to be your character. I think of it as instinct. Compassion is the one to remember if you always want to make someone and even you feel better. To make someone realize that you feel sorry or bad for them makes them know you care. Kaizen is your social responsibility which is obviously extremely important in everyday life, academia, and in your career
There are many values in life, many in which you can be taught and many in which you will have to experience to learn. The values can be categorized together such as morals, performance and civics. Respect and integrity for example can be grouped under Morals. Morals are important to have and present because they allow humans to interact they way they were built, to love one another and treat each other fairly. Performance can be described through having courage and compassion within that is being performed. These are provided because they allow for a purpose for a good performance. The purpose behind performance allows others to see your ability to succeed while having morals can be hidden. And last, integrity and perseverance fall under civics. Integrity and perseverance are represented here because this category is always just the right thing to do. This is given to prove that you are a civil person which is what every person should be. This is capable of protecting yourself and others and allowing for a positive outcome between all. Together as a class if we all can work on these characteristics and value each other more, then we will find many ways to succeed as a class. They will not only help you as a class, but especially as an individual. It will allow you to be true to yourself and feel very positive inside. Once you can grasp onto these morals, they will stick with you and be very handy in the future when your trying to get a job, manage a family, or much more. These characteristics will drastically develop you into a much better human being.
Perseverance and Pancakes Don’t pancakes sound good? So does perseverance. But the layers need time to build up; each pancake just rewarding as the last. And after all the hard work, one can add the syrup, whip cream, and fruit. As the thick pancakes and toppings come to a well-earned work of art, then it is time to enjoy the reward that has been so tempting. Just as creating a breakfast-filled masterpiece, perseverance is very rewarding. Perseverance is important not only in pre-calculus, but in life. Pre-calculus offers many different challenges. There will be nights of what seem like endless math problems, torturous equations, and grueling tests, but moving forward and being persistent will accomplish the math world and the real world. Along with many other admirable traits, like respect, integrity, and grit, perseverance is a wonderful characteristic that helps us get through each and every day. It does not get any easier than putting one foot in front of the other. Besides, in pre-calculus class, there are many different concepts than can be applied for the rest of our lives. And the more students keep following through with their studies and work to make relationships with their peers, the more success there will be. After high school, life will come up with plenty of obstacles that students will need to maneuver and persevere through. For instance, expectations and reputations will be made; college applications and jobs, or careers could be on the line. Being able to persevere and project one’s true potential or abilities will pay off. Also, as students evolve into young adults, it becomes their responsibility to contribute to their society or government. It is important to vote, pay taxes, and make an effort to maintain a healthy environment. Lastly, perseverance is simply good to have on one’s moral compass. Success is not defined by one person or one dictionary; I believe that it is within every person to do their very best, everyday
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Patience, Perseverance, and Ambition
Life can be like a challenging math assignment. In life, we will not always know how to achieve our goals or how we can make the right decisions. Sometimes, we will not even understand what life wants from us. It will take us years upon years and practice upon practice to finally understand who we are and why we are here and how we can become the person we want to become. In the effort to understand our life, however, mistakes will be made and challenges will be thrown at us from all directions, and a lot of times, we will not want to deal with these challenges or the consequences of our mistakes. But we can learn from our mistakes. We can become stronger. We can become better people than we were before. We can accomplish our goals and, through our struggles, we can learn to overcome our challenges. We make decisions every minute of every day, big and small. Some of the decisions we make are far more important than others, and it can be hard to make the right decisions. In pre-calculus, for example, we may have what seems like an endless amount of homework, and it can be such a frustrating or tedious assignment to complete that we may just decide not to finish or even do the work. But we should not decide on that. Instead, if we have patience with ourselves and the homework, knowing that we can finish it, we will. All we have to do to endure that challenge is learn to have patience and find the strength within us to keep persevering. Other times in pre-calculus, we may be learning a lesson that is extremely difficult to understand. Even if we ask for extra help and review the lesson over and over, we still might not have any idea what the lesson is about or how we are supposed to apply the lesson to all the other lessons we have learned throughout the year. We will not be able to understand the lesson right away, but eventually, with practice, we will understand the lesson. We just have to remember that practice is the only way to learn more and become better. Then, we finally understand the lesson and decide to do the homework for pre-calculus, and we finish everything. We think we have all the right answers, but we find out we do not. We have some wrong answers. Just because we have some wrong answers, however, does not mean we should give up, it just shows us that we made some mistakes and we need to fix them. It can be frustrating to spend so much time on the homework and find out that most of our answers were wrong, but if we have the ambition to correct those mistakes and get the right answers, it will be easier for us to do the homework again. Finishing each question of the math homework is just like any other challenge we may face in life. The challenges we face may be long and tedious, frustrating and unfair, but we should strive to overcome our challenges and not give up. If we do our best to overcome them, we will become stronger people. Even when we make mistakes, we should learn from them and not let them drag us down. Our mistakes and our struggles are what can teach us the most about overcoming our challenges. All we need is a little patience, perseverance, and ambition. |
There are times in our lives when we try to tackle projects on our own and we fail. But we shouldn't just give up. Instead, try to take help from a friend and try it again and you can succeed.
Discovering and Using Your Kaizen
Have you ever met a person with an unending positive attitude or a person that always finds ways to correct mistakes or better a situation? Maybe you are that person. Well, wherever or in whomever you have seen this characteristic, you have witnessed kaizen. According to Dictionary.com, the word “kaizen” is defined as the effort or practice of making a “continuous improvement” or “making positive changes on a regular basis.” Having the ability to consistently strive for an “improvement” of some kind in your life makes kaizen an important moral standard that can apply to all areas of life. First and foremost, it is important that we strive for kaizen in our daily, personal lives. Recognizing mistakes we have made or even flaws within ourselves, and then enabling ourselves to learn from those flaws and mistakes, makes us more well-rounded and sophisticated individuals. Striving to daily correct and avoid making the same mistakes and striving to make “positive changes” within our attitude can also lead to personal betterment. For example, if we had a problem with being kind to someone we did not care for, remembering kaizen could help us realize that we should reflect upon our actions and aim for a more positive attitude towards that person. By first trying to better ourselves, we can then be an example to others and take a step further to help make the world a better place. As citizens of the United States and as representatives of the world and the world’s people, I believe it is our responsibility to do whatever we can to make our surroundings the best they can be. Mahatma Gandhi once said that “you must be the change you wish to see in the world” and in order to follow through with this idea, kaizen is fundamental. If we want to see our community, country, and world become better, we need to make a “continuous” effort to do our part and make “positive changes on a regular basis.” Fortunately, there are plenty of ways we can achieve this responsibility. To support our community, we can participate in community service and buy products from local businesses. To keep our country in good standing, we can vote for worthy political holders. And to help our world altogether, we can care for the natural environment and be our best selves. Kaizen also plays a crucial part when it comes to school and career. If we keep the idea of kaizen in mind while working and learning, we can remember that even when times get tough, we should learn to become better instead of learning to give up. When a task becomes difficult or if we do not possess a skill or talent needed in order to accomplish our goals or duties in work or school, it is important that we find ways to develop the skills and talents we need and learn to keep a positive mindset so we can accomplish our goals and duties. It is amazing that kaizen can be so helpful and crucial to ourselves, our world, our careers and school, even in a class such as pre-calculus. No matter what the situation, learning to become better is a key part to success and can often lead us to becoming happier people, as well as living in a happier and better environment and world. We can all find ways to discover and use kaizen. |