Intellectual Perseverance means to continue with purpose in spite of opposition.
To me, this has been my world since I started my master's in the US. I know English well, but I still have to read sentences many times and think through what each sentence mean. I can read one paragraph multiple times and I can still have problems understanding what it says. I have thrown books at the wall in frustration many times. Taking a break and go back again has helped most of the times, some times I have had to get help. Usually it takes to long to aks for help, just because I am often too proud to ask for help. I am the kind of person who wants to try hard to solve a problem by myself first and it takes a lot to me to ask for help. I have through the years started to learn from my mistakes and have started to understand that I am at school to learn and that there is really not bad to ask for help from anyone.
This class is a very new and different class to me. I often find myself calling my boyfriend to ask for help. I will call or send a screenshot to him and he will call back and explain in a way that I will understand. Although I get really frustrated, and sometimes embarrassed, it really helps to have someone explain it in his or her own words.
I hope that this class will help me start asking the right questions, ask them in a easily understanding way and better my understanding in the subjects I am studying. I think questioning the right questions will better your analytical skills and it will help in any subject you have to study. For me, it will aslo help in communications, especially conversations and emails. Some times I find myself just nodding and answering yes or no because I really don't know what the person is talking about or what his or her point is.
I also think this is a good quality to have as a leader. To be a good leader you will have to know the tasks you put your group on. You will have to know what questions you want the answers to.
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