Epicycle 2
Week 1
Monday March 10, 2014
So, today was not my kind of morning. Since I went to sleep yesterday I was not feeling well, I slept at 11:30 or so, because I was finishing my affirmative debate case. Of course I was also attentive to know the results from which I voted and had come back from El Salvador on Sunday for the election’s day. It was a very tense environment but we were hoping that a miracle would happen. And fortunately, the results are still pending to be officially declared. This is because there was a lot of corruption and frauds, behind FMLN counting the ballots. I am ashamed of how people behind power have the will and passion to govern over others, thinking they own the "real deal" and just for their own personal power, worsening an entire country filled with ambitions citizens.
So I slept over 7:00a.m today, and arrived at MPC at around 8:00am. When I arrived they were watching a TED talk about giving thanks and how to ask for help very precisely to others. It is a cultural tradition that we are very indirect with our wants and are not effective in our communications.
So lesson learned, I need to be more aware when I ask others for favors, dropping the drama and the elaboration behind every sentence.
Later we had around 3 hours of planning for the upcoming week, and the readings of the entire semester by mere accident. We worked on the readings and the work pending. I liked it a lot because there were few missing links in our heads from different tasks that have to be done. I did an estimate of how my work load is for every week and is not that bad because I have to read around 35 pages a day for now on till the end of the semester. I just hope that I don’t get my eyes weakened for too much reading.
At 11:30 we had Michelle from Franklin Covey and I understand major things today. The importance of scheduling your time and prioritize your duties by being able to know your limitations and up to were you can take responsibility of things.
The learning from this is To be more metacognitive about distractions and accomplish the things you proposed yourself to achieve.
At home I did my Strengths finders exam which consisted of 177 questions and took me around 35 minutes to finish it. It was incredible because when I finished the test and the results were given the first thing in my list said: connectedness. And that absolutely describes my passions in life. Second was futuristic. Third relator, fourth restorative and fifth input. I was very content with the results, because those strengths truly shape my self and besides by being more aware of them I can take more advantage to exploit them to my benefit and the group’s as well. My favorite one was the input which means that I like to collect new knowledge and information. But really, they all connect to one another and can see a clearer vision of my self in the world giving value to humanity more than ever.
So, today was not my kind of morning. Since I went to sleep yesterday I was not feeling well, I slept at 11:30 or so, because I was finishing my affirmative debate case. Of course I was also attentive to know the results from which I voted and had come back from El Salvador on Sunday for the election’s day. It was a very tense environment but we were hoping that a miracle would happen. And fortunately, the results are still pending to be officially declared. This is because there was a lot of corruption and frauds, behind FMLN counting the ballots. I am ashamed of how people behind power have the will and passion to govern over others, thinking they own the "real deal" and just for their own personal power, worsening an entire country filled with ambitions citizens.
So I slept over 7:00a.m today, and arrived at MPC at around 8:00am. When I arrived they were watching a TED talk about giving thanks and how to ask for help very precisely to others. It is a cultural tradition that we are very indirect with our wants and are not effective in our communications.
So lesson learned, I need to be more aware when I ask others for favors, dropping the drama and the elaboration behind every sentence.
Later we had around 3 hours of planning for the upcoming week, and the readings of the entire semester by mere accident. We worked on the readings and the work pending. I liked it a lot because there were few missing links in our heads from different tasks that have to be done. I did an estimate of how my work load is for every week and is not that bad because I have to read around 35 pages a day for now on till the end of the semester. I just hope that I don’t get my eyes weakened for too much reading.
At 11:30 we had Michelle from Franklin Covey and I understand major things today. The importance of scheduling your time and prioritize your duties by being able to know your limitations and up to were you can take responsibility of things.
The learning from this is To be more metacognitive about distractions and accomplish the things you proposed yourself to achieve.
At home I did my Strengths finders exam which consisted of 177 questions and took me around 35 minutes to finish it. It was incredible because when I finished the test and the results were given the first thing in my list said: connectedness. And that absolutely describes my passions in life. Second was futuristic. Third relator, fourth restorative and fifth input. I was very content with the results, because those strengths truly shape my self and besides by being more aware of them I can take more advantage to exploit them to my benefit and the group’s as well. My favorite one was the input which means that I like to collect new knowledge and information. But really, they all connect to one another and can see a clearer vision of my self in the world giving value to humanity more than ever.
Tuesday March 11, 2014
Today in the morning as I was waking up I have no idea why I was thinking in logical forms. I just thought if I sleep for a few more minutes this will happen, it was like an A+B=C kind of thinking, so I didn’t slept more and I was able to arrive on time to the MPC. As morning meeting we had a lot of announcements and Chacho shared a quote by Thoreau which got me thinking a lot in my work load and how I should be immersed in figuring out more challenges for myself and actually following them to start creating a habit.
Instead of taking the codecademy time to work on programming I applied to a work trade place in Mystical Yoga Farm in Lake Atitlan. The entire program is very interesting; it includes yoga classes, meditation and a lot of working within the community. I do believe I have great inputs in helping others create community environments, besides I will be learning a lot from people that have been thinking in transformations and become the best versions of themselves by revealing their true Self, so I sent the application and I am just waiting for the answer.
At 11:00 we were arriving to Guatevision. Marlon welcomed us and gave us a tour of the offices, explaining the duty of each department. I was amazed at how the information that is going to be publically was all happening there in that moment, there were individuals choosing which news would pass and which not. Afterwards we audience the show of Tuti, where they were talking about pornography and masturbation, the topic is a big taboo in Guatemalan culture, and probably most cultures around the world. There were three experts talking about the subject and 2 young students as well. It was a great experience, Tuti impressed me in her ability to develop the questions in the interviews it all seemed very natural in her and she was not nervous at all you could see her confidence radiant all over the set, and transmitted it to her interviewers.
At 6:30 we had our class with Roberto Castillo to talk about our validations, it was great because overall we got very good advices from him and from all of our classmates. First, as I finished explaining my project, Roberto said it was a great idea but he knew of three guys who he knew in the Spain Start Up Weekend who already were working on the same social networks for goals and they received funding. So, I was kind of disappointed, but he suggested me to talk to them and learn from their process. Later on Diego gave me a great advice as well as Kata. Diego suggested there to be the platform mediator to make the dreams of this people happen, if someone wants to go to Paris but doesn’t have the time to look for houses, that someone else from Paris would lend her, the house and she starts gaining points to change them for something else that she wants to achieve. Kata suggested that for every goal achieved this person earns points that she could exchange for something real later on. I am a little confused as of what to do now, and what will be the next step for me.
We got out from the University at 10:00pm. I was incredibly tired, so I just ate a fast dinner and went to sleep. I didn’t accomplish my goal that was to finish the chapters from We The Living which I have the dialogue for tomorrow with Kata.
Today in the morning as I was waking up I have no idea why I was thinking in logical forms. I just thought if I sleep for a few more minutes this will happen, it was like an A+B=C kind of thinking, so I didn’t slept more and I was able to arrive on time to the MPC. As morning meeting we had a lot of announcements and Chacho shared a quote by Thoreau which got me thinking a lot in my work load and how I should be immersed in figuring out more challenges for myself and actually following them to start creating a habit.
Instead of taking the codecademy time to work on programming I applied to a work trade place in Mystical Yoga Farm in Lake Atitlan. The entire program is very interesting; it includes yoga classes, meditation and a lot of working within the community. I do believe I have great inputs in helping others create community environments, besides I will be learning a lot from people that have been thinking in transformations and become the best versions of themselves by revealing their true Self, so I sent the application and I am just waiting for the answer.
At 11:00 we were arriving to Guatevision. Marlon welcomed us and gave us a tour of the offices, explaining the duty of each department. I was amazed at how the information that is going to be publically was all happening there in that moment, there were individuals choosing which news would pass and which not. Afterwards we audience the show of Tuti, where they were talking about pornography and masturbation, the topic is a big taboo in Guatemalan culture, and probably most cultures around the world. There were three experts talking about the subject and 2 young students as well. It was a great experience, Tuti impressed me in her ability to develop the questions in the interviews it all seemed very natural in her and she was not nervous at all you could see her confidence radiant all over the set, and transmitted it to her interviewers.
At 6:30 we had our class with Roberto Castillo to talk about our validations, it was great because overall we got very good advices from him and from all of our classmates. First, as I finished explaining my project, Roberto said it was a great idea but he knew of three guys who he knew in the Spain Start Up Weekend who already were working on the same social networks for goals and they received funding. So, I was kind of disappointed, but he suggested me to talk to them and learn from their process. Later on Diego gave me a great advice as well as Kata. Diego suggested there to be the platform mediator to make the dreams of this people happen, if someone wants to go to Paris but doesn’t have the time to look for houses, that someone else from Paris would lend her, the house and she starts gaining points to change them for something else that she wants to achieve. Kata suggested that for every goal achieved this person earns points that she could exchange for something real later on. I am a little confused as of what to do now, and what will be the next step for me.
We got out from the University at 10:00pm. I was incredibly tired, so I just ate a fast dinner and went to sleep. I didn’t accomplish my goal that was to finish the chapters from We The Living which I have the dialogue for tomorrow with Kata.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Today it was a very productive day. First of all because (besides of coming 5 minutes late) I could participate in Isa’s morning meeting, which consisted in dancing out 5 words we chose. It was very funny; my classmates have great creativity and are very talented. The first hour later on we worked on our individual work; I decided to write a reflection I had forgotten and later dedicated time to perfection my debate. From 9:00-10:00 the first round of debates started with Isa and Carmen, I learned a lot about both and the way debates are managed regarding the time. I will go back to check my debates and probably introduce stronger arguments that will support most of all what it was questioned to the neg case. After that we worked on a very interesting activity, which was defining a concept that had to do with Value debates. Mine was Rights and equality, it was very interesting to listen to my peers concepts that started with consequential that are ethical philosophies based on the ends, and deontologist that are based in the means, like the intention of something. Later we had our Franklin Covey class, which was as well interesting, we learned about the importance and dangers of staying too much time in each quadrant of times. Later we were assigned a homework, which will help me a lot visualize myself and will lead me into taking better options towards accomplishing my goals. And I am dedicating that for the weekend, to work it closely and neatly.
After lunch we had our dialogue with Economics in One Lesson, and we didn’t advance much because it’s a topic that leads a lot to getting off topic, or giving too much examples. We got to the idea that we wanted to create an allopoiesis for telling the fallacies in a story kind of way, or doing it as an act. I have a very cool group, and everyone gives great input to the conversation, which I learned a lot.
In our week debrief, we came with great ideas for implementing next week. Starting with punctuality, I stated that lately I’ve not been motivated to start my day as soon as my alarm clock rings. So I’ve been thinking that we should all do a challenge in which as soon as our alarm clock rings, we should jump out of bed and take a picture of us, or send a voice note or message that we are up and ready to go. This is in order to keep accountability of each other’s punctuality and to call anyone if he needs a reminder to wake up. We also agreed on having a ballot of filling our attendance in order to receive a price at the end of the month, for the person that has more attendance.
Today it was a very productive day. First of all because (besides of coming 5 minutes late) I could participate in Isa’s morning meeting, which consisted in dancing out 5 words we chose. It was very funny; my classmates have great creativity and are very talented. The first hour later on we worked on our individual work; I decided to write a reflection I had forgotten and later dedicated time to perfection my debate. From 9:00-10:00 the first round of debates started with Isa and Carmen, I learned a lot about both and the way debates are managed regarding the time. I will go back to check my debates and probably introduce stronger arguments that will support most of all what it was questioned to the neg case. After that we worked on a very interesting activity, which was defining a concept that had to do with Value debates. Mine was Rights and equality, it was very interesting to listen to my peers concepts that started with consequential that are ethical philosophies based on the ends, and deontologist that are based in the means, like the intention of something. Later we had our Franklin Covey class, which was as well interesting, we learned about the importance and dangers of staying too much time in each quadrant of times. Later we were assigned a homework, which will help me a lot visualize myself and will lead me into taking better options towards accomplishing my goals. And I am dedicating that for the weekend, to work it closely and neatly.
After lunch we had our dialogue with Economics in One Lesson, and we didn’t advance much because it’s a topic that leads a lot to getting off topic, or giving too much examples. We got to the idea that we wanted to create an allopoiesis for telling the fallacies in a story kind of way, or doing it as an act. I have a very cool group, and everyone gives great input to the conversation, which I learned a lot.
In our week debrief, we came with great ideas for implementing next week. Starting with punctuality, I stated that lately I’ve not been motivated to start my day as soon as my alarm clock rings. So I’ve been thinking that we should all do a challenge in which as soon as our alarm clock rings, we should jump out of bed and take a picture of us, or send a voice note or message that we are up and ready to go. This is in order to keep accountability of each other’s punctuality and to call anyone if he needs a reminder to wake up. We also agreed on having a ballot of filling our attendance in order to receive a price at the end of the month, for the person that has more attendance.
Thursday March 13, 2014
Acabo de ver las noticias con la yaya. Todo. Absolutamente todos los países están teniendo crisis. Que pasa? Que es diferente ahora que hace dos tres años? Ya existe mucho conflicto y el poder central esta actuando con mas fuerza, sin pena, sin miedo a ser descubierto. Y al hacerlo, adónde están las tantas organizaciones por las naciones unidas, defensoras de los derechos de los individuos que tanto hemos defendido y proclamado con orgullo que logramos al finalizar la guerra? No están. No existen, no cumplen su función, no se que función tienen. Me asusta pensar que realmente estamos a la merced del funcionario que mejor hace reír a las personas que se adueñen de nuestros pensamientos, de nuestra manera de actuar, y de nuestro futuro. Eso es lo que mas me aterra. El que nos limiten nuestra libertad, que como seres humanos hemos venido por una razón, para dar y recibir amor, para hacer lo que nuestro corazón nos grita cada mañana y cada noche y demuestra quienes somos en realidad. Ese milagro de Dios, ese deseo y plan perfecto que el nos tiene para nosotros. No nos estamos acercando si nos dejamos ser influenciados por el poder de alguien mas que supone saber lo que mas valoramos individualmente. Realmente, somos tan incapaces de ser autónomos? Siempre tenemos que estar a la deriva de ser gobernados? Y por quienes? Si no podemos escoger a los mejores, por lo visto, quien mas que nosotros mismos puede gobernarnos, teniendo todo el conocimiento de saber discernir entre las opciones y decisiones que tenemos que tomar según nuestras necesidades y nuestras experiencias.
El sistema funciona, rechazando al individuo y usa mas el colectivo, lo que es mejor para la sociedad. Empezamos a crecer con una mentalidad confusa de por si, el decir que queremos hacer algo, pero visto en la sociedad eso es “malo”, “inapropiado”, “incuestionable”, y poco a poco empezamos callando esa voz interna que parlotea todo el día, y empezamos a llenarla con pensamientos, miedos, angustias, frustraciones, dudas, de los demás, porque por ser ser humano necesitamos esa aceptación de la sociedad, somos animales y seres racionales. Sin una sociedad, no fuéramos capaces de existir. Cada uno de los miembros de la sociedad tiene algo que no sabemos, y que con esa información crece nuestro conocimiento para así transportarlo a próximas generaciones creando impactos sociales mucho mas duraderos y eficientes que hagan valer la pena vivir en este mundo que esta listo para ser el mejor ambiente para crecer como humanidad.
Lo mas lindo de todo es que cada cosa que sabemos, es porque la hemos aprendido através de nuestra propia experiencia. Y muchas veces cuando el gobierno trata de prevenir ciertos problemas sociales, nos esta quitando esa oportunidad de aprendizaje que nosotros mismos hubiésemos podido aprender por nuestra cuenta, y así saberla aplicar para próximas decisiones.
Una de las lecciones mas bonitas que he tenido como aprendizaje esta semana fue el lunes: íbamos con isa en el carro hacia la oficina de la mama a comer. Cuando el motorista enfrente de nosotros hizo una mala movida y se subió a la banqueta y perdió el control, cayéndose el y la moto encima. La reacción de isa fue detenerse de pronto, al ver que el se levanto con dolor, pero con bien y después de preguntarnos que hacemos? Lo ayudamos? Simplemente nos fuimos. Me dolió en el alma, nunca había estado en una de esas situaciones. Mi primer instinto fue salirme del carro y ayudarlo a levantarse. Mi mente me dijo al segundo, NO, cuidado, puede pasarte algo, estas en medio de la calle, hay gente esperando atrás. Era el día siguiente y yo no podía sacarme de la cabeza a esta persona, y si esta se encontraba con bien. Cuando Edmundo me dice lo siguiente: seño yo ya no vuelvo ir en moto, ayer mismo la vendí. Viera ayer me caí de la moto porque perdí el balance y me cayo la moto encima. Mi ser se transporto al incidente que había vivido el día anterior. Seguí escuchando, al no aguantar mas mi inquietud, le pregunte que donde había ocurrido el incidente, y a que horas. Cuando me respondió inmediatamente supe que no había sido el mismo que yo había visto. Y me empecé a cuestionar porque hubiera reaccionado sin importar cualquier circunstancia si hubiera sabido que el que se cayo fue Edmundo y no un desconocido, que tiene de diferencia estos dos? Realmente son humanos ambos, ambos merecen recibir ayuda en este caso. Cuando le pregunte que si alguien lo había ayudado, me dijo nooo, me estuve ahí hasta que logre tener fuerzas. Me dolió. Hasta el alma. Aprendí, eso si. Ayudar al que lo necesita sin mirar quien es. Sin mirar quien ve. Sin mirar quien fue.
No solo aprendo a las malas, también aprendí hoy a las buenas. Iba temprano hacia la universidad a eso de las 6:45am. Tranquilamente voltee a ver al carro de la par y veo a mi amigo Pablito en el carro, lo empiezo a saludar y a hacer caras de sorpresa ya que el encontrarse a un amigo en el carro en la calle a esa hora es muy poco usual. Al bajar la ventana, y ver que el carro se aproximo también, y bajo la ventana veo a un señor de unos 50 años saludándome con la sonrisa mas grande de la vida, como que si fuera el amigo que regreso de ser un desaparecido. No podía contener mi risa. Esto había sido demasiado bueno para ser cierto. Tanto el como yo, nos la gozamos con un momento genuino y feliz. Entendí que tengo que recibir la misma felicidad el saludar a un conocido que al saludar a un desconocido. Todos merecemos ser tomados en cuenta, ser conocidos, permitirnos ser abiertos con los demás y mostrar que todos tenemos ese potencial de ser quienes queremos ser.
Acabo de ver las noticias con la yaya. Todo. Absolutamente todos los países están teniendo crisis. Que pasa? Que es diferente ahora que hace dos tres años? Ya existe mucho conflicto y el poder central esta actuando con mas fuerza, sin pena, sin miedo a ser descubierto. Y al hacerlo, adónde están las tantas organizaciones por las naciones unidas, defensoras de los derechos de los individuos que tanto hemos defendido y proclamado con orgullo que logramos al finalizar la guerra? No están. No existen, no cumplen su función, no se que función tienen. Me asusta pensar que realmente estamos a la merced del funcionario que mejor hace reír a las personas que se adueñen de nuestros pensamientos, de nuestra manera de actuar, y de nuestro futuro. Eso es lo que mas me aterra. El que nos limiten nuestra libertad, que como seres humanos hemos venido por una razón, para dar y recibir amor, para hacer lo que nuestro corazón nos grita cada mañana y cada noche y demuestra quienes somos en realidad. Ese milagro de Dios, ese deseo y plan perfecto que el nos tiene para nosotros. No nos estamos acercando si nos dejamos ser influenciados por el poder de alguien mas que supone saber lo que mas valoramos individualmente. Realmente, somos tan incapaces de ser autónomos? Siempre tenemos que estar a la deriva de ser gobernados? Y por quienes? Si no podemos escoger a los mejores, por lo visto, quien mas que nosotros mismos puede gobernarnos, teniendo todo el conocimiento de saber discernir entre las opciones y decisiones que tenemos que tomar según nuestras necesidades y nuestras experiencias.
El sistema funciona, rechazando al individuo y usa mas el colectivo, lo que es mejor para la sociedad. Empezamos a crecer con una mentalidad confusa de por si, el decir que queremos hacer algo, pero visto en la sociedad eso es “malo”, “inapropiado”, “incuestionable”, y poco a poco empezamos callando esa voz interna que parlotea todo el día, y empezamos a llenarla con pensamientos, miedos, angustias, frustraciones, dudas, de los demás, porque por ser ser humano necesitamos esa aceptación de la sociedad, somos animales y seres racionales. Sin una sociedad, no fuéramos capaces de existir. Cada uno de los miembros de la sociedad tiene algo que no sabemos, y que con esa información crece nuestro conocimiento para así transportarlo a próximas generaciones creando impactos sociales mucho mas duraderos y eficientes que hagan valer la pena vivir en este mundo que esta listo para ser el mejor ambiente para crecer como humanidad.
Lo mas lindo de todo es que cada cosa que sabemos, es porque la hemos aprendido através de nuestra propia experiencia. Y muchas veces cuando el gobierno trata de prevenir ciertos problemas sociales, nos esta quitando esa oportunidad de aprendizaje que nosotros mismos hubiésemos podido aprender por nuestra cuenta, y así saberla aplicar para próximas decisiones.
Una de las lecciones mas bonitas que he tenido como aprendizaje esta semana fue el lunes: íbamos con isa en el carro hacia la oficina de la mama a comer. Cuando el motorista enfrente de nosotros hizo una mala movida y se subió a la banqueta y perdió el control, cayéndose el y la moto encima. La reacción de isa fue detenerse de pronto, al ver que el se levanto con dolor, pero con bien y después de preguntarnos que hacemos? Lo ayudamos? Simplemente nos fuimos. Me dolió en el alma, nunca había estado en una de esas situaciones. Mi primer instinto fue salirme del carro y ayudarlo a levantarse. Mi mente me dijo al segundo, NO, cuidado, puede pasarte algo, estas en medio de la calle, hay gente esperando atrás. Era el día siguiente y yo no podía sacarme de la cabeza a esta persona, y si esta se encontraba con bien. Cuando Edmundo me dice lo siguiente: seño yo ya no vuelvo ir en moto, ayer mismo la vendí. Viera ayer me caí de la moto porque perdí el balance y me cayo la moto encima. Mi ser se transporto al incidente que había vivido el día anterior. Seguí escuchando, al no aguantar mas mi inquietud, le pregunte que donde había ocurrido el incidente, y a que horas. Cuando me respondió inmediatamente supe que no había sido el mismo que yo había visto. Y me empecé a cuestionar porque hubiera reaccionado sin importar cualquier circunstancia si hubiera sabido que el que se cayo fue Edmundo y no un desconocido, que tiene de diferencia estos dos? Realmente son humanos ambos, ambos merecen recibir ayuda en este caso. Cuando le pregunte que si alguien lo había ayudado, me dijo nooo, me estuve ahí hasta que logre tener fuerzas. Me dolió. Hasta el alma. Aprendí, eso si. Ayudar al que lo necesita sin mirar quien es. Sin mirar quien ve. Sin mirar quien fue.
No solo aprendo a las malas, también aprendí hoy a las buenas. Iba temprano hacia la universidad a eso de las 6:45am. Tranquilamente voltee a ver al carro de la par y veo a mi amigo Pablito en el carro, lo empiezo a saludar y a hacer caras de sorpresa ya que el encontrarse a un amigo en el carro en la calle a esa hora es muy poco usual. Al bajar la ventana, y ver que el carro se aproximo también, y bajo la ventana veo a un señor de unos 50 años saludándome con la sonrisa mas grande de la vida, como que si fuera el amigo que regreso de ser un desaparecido. No podía contener mi risa. Esto había sido demasiado bueno para ser cierto. Tanto el como yo, nos la gozamos con un momento genuino y feliz. Entendí que tengo que recibir la misma felicidad el saludar a un conocido que al saludar a un desconocido. Todos merecemos ser tomados en cuenta, ser conocidos, permitirnos ser abiertos con los demás y mostrar que todos tenemos ese potencial de ser quienes queremos ser.
WEEK 2
Monday March 17
I am writing this reflection on Tuesday morning. Yesterday I ended so tired that I fell asleep with we the living book in my face. Yesterday I learned the importance of having time for yourself and dedicating at least 30 minutes each Sunday before the week starts to plan your week, and each day around 10 minutes to see if you have accomplished your duties. These I learned in my Franklin Covey course, I need also to be working on my role, which is my visualization of myself in certain roles having an extraordinary result. I want to dedicate it some time today because I find it very important for my development of Self.
Another important part, which I enjoyed this day, was the reading of Knowledge and Society by Hayek. He stresses the problem of knowledge allocation, which is not the one we should be focusing on, but the one of the utilization of the knowledge to the best resources. We talked about having a computer acquiring the knowledge of individuals and later on telling you which option should you choose in order for the best of society, this is a problem of development because there would not be any error, which is human beings principle catalyst for growing.
I have no idea how I would be able to learn if it wasn’t from my mistakes, those are the only ones that tell me how I wish to see results differently, and gives me the strength to put my energy and courage to them. The only thing I am pursuing is the best version of myself, how would I grow if every little decision I do thanks to this machine is error free?
I am writing this reflection on Tuesday morning. Yesterday I ended so tired that I fell asleep with we the living book in my face. Yesterday I learned the importance of having time for yourself and dedicating at least 30 minutes each Sunday before the week starts to plan your week, and each day around 10 minutes to see if you have accomplished your duties. These I learned in my Franklin Covey course, I need also to be working on my role, which is my visualization of myself in certain roles having an extraordinary result. I want to dedicate it some time today because I find it very important for my development of Self.
Another important part, which I enjoyed this day, was the reading of Knowledge and Society by Hayek. He stresses the problem of knowledge allocation, which is not the one we should be focusing on, but the one of the utilization of the knowledge to the best resources. We talked about having a computer acquiring the knowledge of individuals and later on telling you which option should you choose in order for the best of society, this is a problem of development because there would not be any error, which is human beings principle catalyst for growing.
I have no idea how I would be able to learn if it wasn’t from my mistakes, those are the only ones that tell me how I wish to see results differently, and gives me the strength to put my energy and courage to them. The only thing I am pursuing is the best version of myself, how would I grow if every little decision I do thanks to this machine is error free?
Tuesday March 18, 2014
Ingrid helped us a lot with the statistics doubts I had with my data base. I learned how to do the whiskers box and start questioning more the data base, of what would I be wanting to take out from the data. I didn’t took the class of codecademy which I am facilitating, I decided to write an internship request for Atitlán for a yoga retreat in exchange of my work in some fields of my interests which were growing sustainable organic crops and building a better community. I hope they answer back with a warm welcome J
Later on today we had Sabino. He helped us a lot in the interview parts, and gave us a homework for next week, to interview someone following the steps he suggested and we talked about during the class. We even talked about introspection, which is fundamental to self knowledge.
Ingrid helped us a lot with the statistics doubts I had with my data base. I learned how to do the whiskers box and start questioning more the data base, of what would I be wanting to take out from the data. I didn’t took the class of codecademy which I am facilitating, I decided to write an internship request for Atitlán for a yoga retreat in exchange of my work in some fields of my interests which were growing sustainable organic crops and building a better community. I hope they answer back with a warm welcome J
Later on today we had Sabino. He helped us a lot in the interview parts, and gave us a homework for next week, to interview someone following the steps he suggested and we talked about during the class. We even talked about introspection, which is fundamental to self knowledge.
Wendesday March 19, 2014
So today it was our second day pitch day. The day had started very positive because I had done almost all of my job done for today, there were some missing things, but nothing that wouldn’t take more than an hour. So in our morning meeting we decided to talk about our trip for humanitarian help. Many of my peers suggested a lot of ideas for helping, and it made me think how many people are actually taking that responsibility in their own hands, and creating a great impact within our community. So the final decision will depend on the answers we receive back from all the contacts that some are sending them the information about us, and who will gladly open their doors for us. I am very excited for this project, because it was been long time since I haven’t share time with people that needs it and probably that will be of a great benefit for my own appreciation about my life.
Bert today gave us a dilemma if you are the driver of a train and see that the brakes don’t work and if you continue going straight you will kill 5 people, but there is a switch that you would only kill one, which one do you choose? Followed by the next question that if you are passing by a bridge and see that there will die 4 people if the button of the gates is not pressed, and you see a fat man and you know that if you throw him away the track, what would you do? It is a great dilemma, because in both cases the responsibility of a death is in your own hands. You have to be utilitarian, and save more lives than you can.
It was great in Franklin Covey because I shared my exceptional roles, and my autobiography with the first years, as well as they shared them with me. It was very comfortable being around them and being so open, it created a great connection between us and I feel more in touch with them than before and I think it was refreshing for the culture to be clear honest with what we want in life and how are our values shown along our actions and thoughts.
For our pitch, we all did a great job comparing it to the last pitch. I still believe we have a long journey to take, but we are taking gigantic steps into putting our idea out there and being criticized. Most of the time we don’t share our thoughts and dreams, because of that fear of rejection and critiqued, but the only one that decides which ideas you take into consideration is you, and no one better than you know what’s best for your project, so take in the ideas of everyone but don’t feel obligated to follow them through.
So today it was our second day pitch day. The day had started very positive because I had done almost all of my job done for today, there were some missing things, but nothing that wouldn’t take more than an hour. So in our morning meeting we decided to talk about our trip for humanitarian help. Many of my peers suggested a lot of ideas for helping, and it made me think how many people are actually taking that responsibility in their own hands, and creating a great impact within our community. So the final decision will depend on the answers we receive back from all the contacts that some are sending them the information about us, and who will gladly open their doors for us. I am very excited for this project, because it was been long time since I haven’t share time with people that needs it and probably that will be of a great benefit for my own appreciation about my life.
Bert today gave us a dilemma if you are the driver of a train and see that the brakes don’t work and if you continue going straight you will kill 5 people, but there is a switch that you would only kill one, which one do you choose? Followed by the next question that if you are passing by a bridge and see that there will die 4 people if the button of the gates is not pressed, and you see a fat man and you know that if you throw him away the track, what would you do? It is a great dilemma, because in both cases the responsibility of a death is in your own hands. You have to be utilitarian, and save more lives than you can.
It was great in Franklin Covey because I shared my exceptional roles, and my autobiography with the first years, as well as they shared them with me. It was very comfortable being around them and being so open, it created a great connection between us and I feel more in touch with them than before and I think it was refreshing for the culture to be clear honest with what we want in life and how are our values shown along our actions and thoughts.
For our pitch, we all did a great job comparing it to the last pitch. I still believe we have a long journey to take, but we are taking gigantic steps into putting our idea out there and being criticized. Most of the time we don’t share our thoughts and dreams, because of that fear of rejection and critiqued, but the only one that decides which ideas you take into consideration is you, and no one better than you know what’s best for your project, so take in the ideas of everyone but don’t feel obligated to follow them through.
Thursday March 20, 2014
Today. Do you have any idea where I left my motivation? I’ve been looking all over it for about 2 weeks already. It’s such a hard time for me to wake up each morning with the same energy I used to before. I don’t know what has taken over me lately. Sleeping late. Thinking too much, on things that don’t need to be thinking about. No exercise. No meditation. Bad food habits. So where does this motivation comes from? External? Internal? I bet it’s internal, but there are certain external factors that affect the way your mood is. It shouldn’t be, but that’s how I’ve been programmed to act and respond. Giving somebody else the power to change my mood is a very important responsibility that shouldn’t be in the hands of other than myself. My mind sometimes drifts too much in the negative, and stays there until something extraordinary happens. I woke up with that uncertain feeling, and in the car a small act of confusion changed my entire day. There was a car besides me whom it seemed to be Pablito, so I laughed, waved him hi, and even made some silly faces and hand moves. A second later he pulled down the window and I noticed Pablito had turned into a 50 year oldish man, waving back at me like if it was the friend who had come back from years of missing. I couldn’t hold my laugh and shame. This was too much. I bet his morning as well as mine started out with the right positive side of the brain. It even got me thinking if I do it each morning. Waving hi to strangers as if they are my friends. Would I be too outrageous? Oh, we’ll see.
Hitler’s secretary’s confessions were truly shocking. It gave me finally the perspective of Hitler actually being a human being, who had some weird manias, such as having cold temperature rooms, not having any living flower in his room or near him (he couldn’t stand seeing them dead), sharing long times with his dog, plus being vegetarian (he suffered from stomach and gastritis illnesses) I couldn’t stop thinking that was because he had so much hatred in himself that the pain was for real telling him that he had unsolved issues. He was very aware of the mistakes he had been doing along these years and that is the main reason he killed himself, because he couldn’t stand somebody else having the honor to kill him. He was a man ran by his ideals.
Javier’s grandma came to visit us. Wow. A great example of what it means to have a sense of ownership of her life, of pursuing her passions day to day, being very joyful and honest. All the time she talked I could only see a little child telling her story in the body of an elderly woman. I couldn’t believe it, this is what is all about. To live our experiences to the fullest, follow our passions, serve others, tell our story.
Today. Do you have any idea where I left my motivation? I’ve been looking all over it for about 2 weeks already. It’s such a hard time for me to wake up each morning with the same energy I used to before. I don’t know what has taken over me lately. Sleeping late. Thinking too much, on things that don’t need to be thinking about. No exercise. No meditation. Bad food habits. So where does this motivation comes from? External? Internal? I bet it’s internal, but there are certain external factors that affect the way your mood is. It shouldn’t be, but that’s how I’ve been programmed to act and respond. Giving somebody else the power to change my mood is a very important responsibility that shouldn’t be in the hands of other than myself. My mind sometimes drifts too much in the negative, and stays there until something extraordinary happens. I woke up with that uncertain feeling, and in the car a small act of confusion changed my entire day. There was a car besides me whom it seemed to be Pablito, so I laughed, waved him hi, and even made some silly faces and hand moves. A second later he pulled down the window and I noticed Pablito had turned into a 50 year oldish man, waving back at me like if it was the friend who had come back from years of missing. I couldn’t hold my laugh and shame. This was too much. I bet his morning as well as mine started out with the right positive side of the brain. It even got me thinking if I do it each morning. Waving hi to strangers as if they are my friends. Would I be too outrageous? Oh, we’ll see.
Hitler’s secretary’s confessions were truly shocking. It gave me finally the perspective of Hitler actually being a human being, who had some weird manias, such as having cold temperature rooms, not having any living flower in his room or near him (he couldn’t stand seeing them dead), sharing long times with his dog, plus being vegetarian (he suffered from stomach and gastritis illnesses) I couldn’t stop thinking that was because he had so much hatred in himself that the pain was for real telling him that he had unsolved issues. He was very aware of the mistakes he had been doing along these years and that is the main reason he killed himself, because he couldn’t stand somebody else having the honor to kill him. He was a man ran by his ideals.
Javier’s grandma came to visit us. Wow. A great example of what it means to have a sense of ownership of her life, of pursuing her passions day to day, being very joyful and honest. All the time she talked I could only see a little child telling her story in the body of an elderly woman. I couldn’t believe it, this is what is all about. To live our experiences to the fullest, follow our passions, serve others, tell our story.
Week 3
Monday March 24, 2014
Ok so i am back. It has been about 2 weeks since I stop doing exercise, meditating and eating healthy. So I decided this is the week to start again, beside my motivation level had gone incredibly low due to all of these changes I didn’t continue doing. So I woke up at 5:15 a.m did some exercise and yoga stretches and went with a very positive attitude to UFM, plus this Friday is Empire of The Sun concert so I decided to dance 5 minutes each day to two of their songs, to inspire and energize myself.
Grace received us with a hip hop dance, it was incredibly funny. I couldn’t stand myself doing exactly one move which was very difficult to my abilities, but practicing it a few times it helped me to learned it.
Our trip for next week is already designed. We are going to a community in Solola of 1,500 members. We are staying in the houses of the families and living the entire experience. I really am very eager to participate and give my entire effort in helping them overcome certain situations.
We had our value model canvas with Valeria Sanchez today at 2pm. It was very interesting to learn about the pains, gains, of our product or service. When I sat down to actually write the values I’ll be giving to my customer, it really hit to me that my idea has evolved so much along these past months that I never actually wrote it down on paper and didn’t seemed so possible. Valeria sat down besides me and helped me with the development of my idea, customers and experts. So my idea is now a social network for people starting their projects, or starting the conversation of solving certain problems. Anyone interested in the problem and adding their value, time and interest to it might join them offering their time, resources, knowledge of the field. Certain students that need to accomplish social hour to graduate most of the time just does what they are been told, but this time they will have an opportunity to participate in solving a part of the problem they find most interesting in. I need to develop more the idea of the business model, other than having the investors searching for projects to invest on. It will be a more quick and efficient way to put your energies in the fields you are most interested in.
Ok so i am back. It has been about 2 weeks since I stop doing exercise, meditating and eating healthy. So I decided this is the week to start again, beside my motivation level had gone incredibly low due to all of these changes I didn’t continue doing. So I woke up at 5:15 a.m did some exercise and yoga stretches and went with a very positive attitude to UFM, plus this Friday is Empire of The Sun concert so I decided to dance 5 minutes each day to two of their songs, to inspire and energize myself.
Grace received us with a hip hop dance, it was incredibly funny. I couldn’t stand myself doing exactly one move which was very difficult to my abilities, but practicing it a few times it helped me to learned it.
Our trip for next week is already designed. We are going to a community in Solola of 1,500 members. We are staying in the houses of the families and living the entire experience. I really am very eager to participate and give my entire effort in helping them overcome certain situations.
We had our value model canvas with Valeria Sanchez today at 2pm. It was very interesting to learn about the pains, gains, of our product or service. When I sat down to actually write the values I’ll be giving to my customer, it really hit to me that my idea has evolved so much along these past months that I never actually wrote it down on paper and didn’t seemed so possible. Valeria sat down besides me and helped me with the development of my idea, customers and experts. So my idea is now a social network for people starting their projects, or starting the conversation of solving certain problems. Anyone interested in the problem and adding their value, time and interest to it might join them offering their time, resources, knowledge of the field. Certain students that need to accomplish social hour to graduate most of the time just does what they are been told, but this time they will have an opportunity to participate in solving a part of the problem they find most interesting in. I need to develop more the idea of the business model, other than having the investors searching for projects to invest on. It will be a more quick and efficient way to put your energies in the fields you are most interested in.
Tuesday March 24, 2014
Second day of waking up early doing some stretches and exercise and listening to powerful energizing music boost up my days.
Today in the mpc it was very relaxed but productive. First, I advance in codecademy with something that I had been stuck over a few weeks now and it was very simple, so I just laughed. Later I did some of the statistics homework but didn’t advance much in the khan academy work.
We had our last dialogue of Economics in One Lesson, to the misfortune we were missing 3 of our members because they were not prepared. Yet I found the dialogue very enriching, plus appreciate everyone’s understandings and curiosity to dig deeper.
I decided to go to Office Depot to buy organizing material, so I did. I bought my monthly planner, and a couple of folders to organize my papers and finances. I came back home and started to organize everything that was on top of my desks. I cleared everything out and felt very happy and productive with the result. It is just a matter to keep it that way.
Second day of waking up early doing some stretches and exercise and listening to powerful energizing music boost up my days.
Today in the mpc it was very relaxed but productive. First, I advance in codecademy with something that I had been stuck over a few weeks now and it was very simple, so I just laughed. Later I did some of the statistics homework but didn’t advance much in the khan academy work.
We had our last dialogue of Economics in One Lesson, to the misfortune we were missing 3 of our members because they were not prepared. Yet I found the dialogue very enriching, plus appreciate everyone’s understandings and curiosity to dig deeper.
I decided to go to Office Depot to buy organizing material, so I did. I bought my monthly planner, and a couple of folders to organize my papers and finances. I came back home and started to organize everything that was on top of my desks. I cleared everything out and felt very happy and productive with the result. It is just a matter to keep it that way.
Wednesday March 26, 2014
Today my day started very motivated. I woke up to the bonsai plant I am taking care of and saw it very weak of health. I am worried that he will not get well back. It got me thinking in the importance of taking care of living beings, and how responsible you have to be first with yourself and duties in order to be able to influence others.
In our debate class, many of my peers were still not prepared after 8 weeks of having this homework, with both debate cases. It was a shame that only 5 people stayed to defend their cases. I went with javi p, defending my negation case, which I felt very confident at the beginning but I was very receptive to feedback that actually made me realize that I didn’t had a very strong debate case, and need to take a look at it.
Couple of minutes later Bert entered the room, informing us that a second year, sebas, had left the MPC. We entered then into a conversation about how you can inspire other people to stay in one place that will bring benefit to them in the long run, rather than they just don’t seeing the benefits in the short run. I told him he must realize that the mpc is not for everybody and that he needs to focus to work with the people truly engaged in their learning process and the environment will feel more authentic. The second years went down to 9. Us pioneers 12.
It helped me also, today’s class of Franklin Covey. We started right on time, and the habit we were discussing was to play Win-Win. We always tend to play games or roles that one person becomes victorious and the other person looser. I learned that is something we are programmed since we are little, by giving prices to someone that won over certain standard and set aside the other person that participated. I can see this habit applied to many aspects in my life, and I need to understand that everyone is a work in progress, and that each one of them have a motive and a reason to do what he is doing.
Karen Vaughn confused of ETS so we were not able to have the dialogue with her. Instead we continue reading the Knowledge in Society by Hayek, which is related to the essay of Karen. It gave me a more sense of understanding and allowed me to see the importance of when I take decisions, and how substitution takes place immediately, there is so much information you are valuing at a particular moment that it is impossible for someone else to tell you what thing you should value the most.
We had our debrief finally after two weeks. It was great, we talked topics so personal, that it made me realize the advancement of the group towards confidence and openness. We are all a great combination of knowledge and friends. I enjoy so much talking, listening to them because we are so supportive and always tend to find solutions to the problems of others. That’s why we are here for. We encouraged grace to become more motivated in the ideas of liberty and we motivated everyone to come in early be watching a video that I posted some weeks ago that helped me notice the importance of pressing snooze every time the alarm clock rang.
Today my day started very motivated. I woke up to the bonsai plant I am taking care of and saw it very weak of health. I am worried that he will not get well back. It got me thinking in the importance of taking care of living beings, and how responsible you have to be first with yourself and duties in order to be able to influence others.
In our debate class, many of my peers were still not prepared after 8 weeks of having this homework, with both debate cases. It was a shame that only 5 people stayed to defend their cases. I went with javi p, defending my negation case, which I felt very confident at the beginning but I was very receptive to feedback that actually made me realize that I didn’t had a very strong debate case, and need to take a look at it.
Couple of minutes later Bert entered the room, informing us that a second year, sebas, had left the MPC. We entered then into a conversation about how you can inspire other people to stay in one place that will bring benefit to them in the long run, rather than they just don’t seeing the benefits in the short run. I told him he must realize that the mpc is not for everybody and that he needs to focus to work with the people truly engaged in their learning process and the environment will feel more authentic. The second years went down to 9. Us pioneers 12.
It helped me also, today’s class of Franklin Covey. We started right on time, and the habit we were discussing was to play Win-Win. We always tend to play games or roles that one person becomes victorious and the other person looser. I learned that is something we are programmed since we are little, by giving prices to someone that won over certain standard and set aside the other person that participated. I can see this habit applied to many aspects in my life, and I need to understand that everyone is a work in progress, and that each one of them have a motive and a reason to do what he is doing.
Karen Vaughn confused of ETS so we were not able to have the dialogue with her. Instead we continue reading the Knowledge in Society by Hayek, which is related to the essay of Karen. It gave me a more sense of understanding and allowed me to see the importance of when I take decisions, and how substitution takes place immediately, there is so much information you are valuing at a particular moment that it is impossible for someone else to tell you what thing you should value the most.
We had our debrief finally after two weeks. It was great, we talked topics so personal, that it made me realize the advancement of the group towards confidence and openness. We are all a great combination of knowledge and friends. I enjoy so much talking, listening to them because we are so supportive and always tend to find solutions to the problems of others. That’s why we are here for. We encouraged grace to become more motivated in the ideas of liberty and we motivated everyone to come in early be watching a video that I posted some weeks ago that helped me notice the importance of pressing snooze every time the alarm clock rang.
Thursday March 27, 2014
Today was another day I came in early and I am really happy about it, because I have kept my commitment. Well as today’s morning meeting we had Javi P, teach us about Tai Chi. He even played some oriental music (like the one you listen to when you enter a Chinese restaurant) peaceful, relaxing and profound. We only did two exercises, but they were very deep and delicate. It was very fun and it gave me a lot of balance in my movements, which I was starting to be more aware of my body.
I am very tired today, I only slept around 5 hours, because I had to finish reading Human Action, and didn’t want to be in outer circle mainly because of the standard I have created for myself that I’ve assisted to every dialogue so far. But we are in eric’s class and I am feeling excessively tired and the tone of the dialogues is so boring that when the moment of midbrief came, I was so glad. It was a before and after that changed so dramatically that I was more present in the dialogue and was able to give more of my inputs.
Throughout the entire day I heard the word balance. Beginning with tai chi and continuing along the dialogues, and certain conversations I had in the meeting of Asociación de Estudiantes, and later in my Design and Innovation class. I learned today that you need to be able to balance the weight between virtue and vice, and know when to stop, knowing your own limitations even though other people might be pushing you towards accomplishing other things that exceeds your own boundaries.
Today was another day I came in early and I am really happy about it, because I have kept my commitment. Well as today’s morning meeting we had Javi P, teach us about Tai Chi. He even played some oriental music (like the one you listen to when you enter a Chinese restaurant) peaceful, relaxing and profound. We only did two exercises, but they were very deep and delicate. It was very fun and it gave me a lot of balance in my movements, which I was starting to be more aware of my body.
I am very tired today, I only slept around 5 hours, because I had to finish reading Human Action, and didn’t want to be in outer circle mainly because of the standard I have created for myself that I’ve assisted to every dialogue so far. But we are in eric’s class and I am feeling excessively tired and the tone of the dialogues is so boring that when the moment of midbrief came, I was so glad. It was a before and after that changed so dramatically that I was more present in the dialogue and was able to give more of my inputs.
Throughout the entire day I heard the word balance. Beginning with tai chi and continuing along the dialogues, and certain conversations I had in the meeting of Asociación de Estudiantes, and later in my Design and Innovation class. I learned today that you need to be able to balance the weight between virtue and vice, and know when to stop, knowing your own limitations even though other people might be pushing you towards accomplishing other things that exceeds your own boundaries.