With the induction of the Developmental Psychology class at Full Sail University, the students are required to decide upon a self betterment project that takes roughly 20% of their time. This project, aptly named the 20% project, will also comprise 20% of our class grade.
Considering my personal downfalls during the Team Building class last month, I have chosen to complete my self betterment project in the area of self control. I have also devised a plan for this enrichment.
While reading my textbook for the course, "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel H Pink, I had an epiphany. Right-minded aptitudes, like self control, could be learned through a step by step approach. When I say step by step, I don't mean memorization, I mean by making actions into habit.
I also came up with this pseudo-equation:
Self Control = (Empathy * Sympathy)^Understanding
Self control can be derived from empathy combined with sympathy and enhanced by understanding.
This does not say that you have to know everything about a situation to maintain self control, but that, if you can remind yourself how you would feel in another person's situation, you can control your reactions towards them. Make the situations less about what you feel and more about what is happening.
A classmate has sought my expertise in art to aid him in his 20% goal. I have decided to use my education of him to further my own 20% goals. Being a natural artist, I will need to exercise a lot of self control in order to appropriately assist my "pupil" in reaching his goal without inadvertently offending him.
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