Week 10A

Freak Factor

This .pdf is just like all of the other .pdfs that we read for these stupid blogs responding to stupid .pdfs.  It points out that our faults are just areas of potential and can lead to self-improvement and all that stuff.  Yeah.  That's really obvious that the things that we aren't good at have can be improved and have potential.  Really, all of these .pdfs that we read are exactly the same, and I don't really believe or take into account anything that they say, I just go through life living like I didn't just read a list of 20 things that I can use to improve my life.

But let's say that I was interested in these things, here are three that I would feel strongly about.

Topic number 2, What's My Problem, deals with making a list of all of your personal flaws, and adapting those to your real life so that you can be truly successful.  He goes on about how making a list of your flaws can bring to light your true strengths.  I disagree with this, why should we go out of our way to point out our own flaws?  That seems very negative about ourselves.  That's how depression starts.  And we shouldn't dance around our own flaws and just avoid them like they're not there.  That contradicts the whole self-improvement thing.  If anything we should be doing the things that we are flawed at, and work on improving them and becoming more well-rounded people.

Related to that is topic number 4, Forget It: Don’t Try To Fix Your Weaknesses.  Again, I disagree with the argument made in this topic.  We should not only understand that we have limitations, but we should push these limitations as far as they will go, not work around them.  If everybody in the world in history didn't push their limitations and didn't challenge themselves, what kind of world would we be living in today?  What kind of technologies would we have?  How would the medical field look?  What about society, would we all be free as we are today?  Our world was built by great people pushing their limitations in order to create something better than there already is.  Stopping at your limitations doesn't lead to innovation.

Topic number 8 says that being normal is the incorrect way of being, and that people should try to be unique and individuals.  I agree with this to a degree.  It is very good to be unique and stand out from a crowd.  There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.  But I don't think that people should go out of their way to be extremely weird, or else it gets obnoxious and nobody wants to be around a person.  Also, being normal is also beneficial.  Social skills and surviving in the world are built around this so called idea of normal, so in order to be truly successful in this world, one should find the healthy balance between normal and unique.

Regarding the creative process, I feel as if I am a very creative person, and I have multiple talents that hopefully will help me have a creative career field in the future.  I feel as if I'm more creative than others, and a lot of the stuff that we learn about I just "get", it's not difficult or foreign to me at all.  However, one of my greatest faults is managing my time, obviously since I get these blogs in minutes before they are due.  Another fault that I have is that I don't know how to end projects or whatever, and they just go unfinished forever.  But these things are small and can be worked on.  I'm just a terrific creative person.