MAC Week 3 Peer Response

Response 1
 Allison Weinreb wrote:

Week 3 - Art of Possibility Chapters 5 - 8

I love Rule number 6! I try to add humor to my everyday life because sometimes life does get too serious and routine. People do have to lighten up sometimes so if I can crack a joke or a “one liner” at work with co-workers or outside of work with friends, I do. I think it’s important to break the tension or stress of everyday life.

I think educators should do this as often as possible as well. It will keep students engaged and motivated while in their classroom. It will make the teacher stand out to other teachers who are boring or just lecture etc. If you can make a class laugh or relate to you, the odds of them listening to you and keeping their attention become greater.

Accepting things for what they are is a huge thing to do in one’s life. I say this all the time accept it and move on. People waste so much time and energy thinking about what they can’t control or “what ifs.” If people spent all that energy on accepting it and moving on I think people would be a happier.

I believe without passion you have nothing. I love how the author defines the two steps of giving way to passion.

1. The first step is to notice where you are holding back, and let go. Release those barriers of self that keep you separate and in control, and let the vital energy of passion surge through you, connecting you to all beyond.

I can’t agree more. I think fear is the number one factor that holds people back from really being their true self. Once that fear is gone you can focus on what makes you happy the passion everyone seeks.

2. The second step is to participate wholly. Allow yourself to be a channel to shape the stream of passion into a new expression for the world.

Once you let everything go and do what it is you love the world will benefit from it no matter what is it might be.

1 comments:

Tremeris Sanders said...

Humor is very important to living a healthy life, I believe. I try to make it my business to laugh at least once an hour. Whether I'm laughing at something a student did, laughing with a colleague, or sitting around thinking of fun times that made me laugh. Laughing and humor is what keeps us sane when things are going crazy.

June 14, 2011 7:12 PM

MAC Week 3 Reading Chapters 5-8

The conductor that was discussed in the reading experienced a transformation that I feel is necessary to become a world-renowned maestro. Instead of focusing on bettering himself, he focused on ways to make the orchestra better. By teaching them to play different musical phrases as best as they could, he focused on the ENTIRE picture. Although the conductor is leading the orchestra the audience, the critics, etc. are only listening to what comes from the musicians instruments. In relation to the business aspect, a leader instills in his/her workers his/her way of thinking and encourages them to replicate that to their best ability. This is a system that works quite well because like the orchestra, the finished product isn't displayed by the conductor or the leader of the workforce, it is displayed by the workers and the members of the orchestra playing the instruments.

MAC Week 2 Free Choice Blog

Abstract

After watching the abstract video for the millionth time that Joe put up I believe that I finally have the concept of the abstract down. I do however, believe that it will be extremely hard to put it in 120 words or less though. But I will keep it short and straight to the point and hopefully it comes out well.

MAC Week 2 Peer Response

Response 2

MAC Week 2 Blog Post - Discussion Board Responses / Replies

(photo from personal collection: parent granted permission to use)

Topic #1: Music in your personal life

Personally, I am not a person that likes silence. No matter what I am doing, whether it is driving, homework, or walking, I need to listen to music. Most of the time I download music from the iTunes or I borrow CD’s from my friends’ collections. Having worked at Best Buy, I fortunately have a lot of friends with great music collections! Recently, I became a huge fan of listening to Pandora radio on my phone. It is a great feature that has saved me from many silent walks around the school track when I have forgotten my iPod. I am currently deciding on whether to start a subscription or not to Pandora to have access to the full account features.

Topic #2: Pick one topic to respond to:

a. Do you remember the first song/artist that touched you on an emotional level, not just a catchy tune, but something that sank in under the skin?

A. While I was growing up, I would always love to listen to the Moody Blues. At 27 years old, I can probably sing every one of their songs word for word. The reason why I loved the Moody Blues is because it was the band my father loved. Whenever we would go in the car, it would either be a Moody Blues tape or Sports Radio on in the car. It was always comforting to hear them and it still brings back such happy memories of when I was younger. To this day, if the weather is hot and my dad has his car windows open, we will hear the Moody Blues blasting in his car as he pulls up the driveway. To me, that was my first experience with music on an emotional level.

If I had to pick a band or artist from my ‘generation’, it would be 3 Doors Down. The lyrics to their songs definitely hit home with me and I have been following them since I heard their first single ‘Kryptonite’ on the radio many years ago. As a faithful follower, I have seen them about 6 times in concert, most recently last month.

Both bands definitely connect with me on an emotional level. Not just the happy emotions either. I can relate their songs to just about every mood or feeling on any particular day.

Posted by elizabeth ashley at 5:37 PM 0 comments

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1 comments: Tremeris Sanders said... Oh wow. I would love to get to know a couple of your friends that work at Best Buy LOL. Maybe we could share some of the songs that we have so that I could become a little more eclectic. Someone said that great minds think alike and Pandora is almost the next best thing next to sliced bread!! June 8, 2011 3:49 PM

MAC Week 2 Peer Response

Response 1

Monday, June 6, 2011

Monday, June 6, 2011

Posted by Megan Sample

I really enjoyed the chapter titled It’s All Invented. Really it is all invented and I have been trying to explain this to others for years, but it is a difficult thing to get people to understand and accept because we have always played by the rules. Thinking outside of the box we live in can be done daily. We must constantly ask ourselves what assumptions we are making. This will help us see that we are creating rules to think and live within even if we do not realize it. We make assumptions all the time. Here I will give you an example. I have a friend who does not have a car and lives next door to me. She often asks me for a ride. I usually assume that if I say no, then I must give a reason. If I have no reason she might no longer consider me a friend. I then make my decision on whether to give her a ride on these assumptions. Just the other day I decided to look at the situation without those assumptions and I just told her no I would not give her a ride and offered no explanation. She said ok and got off the phone to find another ride. She did not ask for a reason and she certainly did not stop being my friend. I was playing by the rules I had invented. What I had invented to change the situation was the rules that maybe she just needed a ride and that I was just another person with a choice in the matter and that the choice was not going to be the end-all of our friendship. Now putting this into writing I feel really silly by living under such assumptions.

We definitely live in a world full of measurements. I could easily relate to this chapter. I had a professor in college who told us “It isn’t about the grade. It is about what you learn and how you apply yourself. So these two things and you will have an A.” All semester I wanted to know my grade and he just kept reminding me that it was more about the learning experience. In the end I learned a lot and I got an A in the class, but because I am so used to living in such a measureable society it was a really painful semester because I didn’t know how I was measuring up as we went along.

Giving yourself an A. Well to be honest I have done that all my life and it is a great way to live. I love it. Yet I had not thought about giving others an A as well. I really liked what the author had to say here. I think that by giving others an A my relationships will have a positive growth and light on them.

Comment to post by Tina DeLuca

I can understand where you are coming from. Once I started FSO and the teachers gave us the freedom to do what we wanted. I was forever checking my grades. However, I think the freedom of everyone will get an A (pass/fail) let me reveal my creative side more then if I was on a strict rubric. I can remember one professor saying if you are in a Master’s program and you are getting anything except A’s or B’s then something is wrong. We all love what we are doing and I think it makes the process easier to deal with.

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Tremeris Sanders

You are absolutely correct! We must think outside the box everyday. But sometimes thinking oustide the box is a little too much to handle. I felt this way when I first enrolled at Full Sail. But I quickly learned that if I just go ahead and do what I have to do, it becomes easier.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 06:15 PM

MAC Week 2 Reading

Chapter one focused on the different perspectives that two separate minds can perceive from any situation. In relation to the reading, one mind can take risks and go ahead open the shoe business while the other mind plays it safe and says it's not worth the risk because the natives don't wear shoes anyway. But my mind would tell me to ask the natives why they don't wear shoes. Like the reading said, the mind is selective when it comes to perception. It only shows us what we think will benefit us or is easiest. Later in the reading, the author cleverly related our thinking process to the catchphrase, it's all invented. He gave us the infamous 'connect the dots' test which can't be solved unless you think outside the box, which is, ironically, what the mind perceives it to be. Maybe that's where the saying comes from?

MAC Week 1 Free Choice Blog

http://www.musictechteacher.com/musicquizzes.htm

The link that I have provided is for music teachers. This site has soooo many games and quizzes that was created by a teacher that you can use in class. It ranges from quizzes on famous composers, to lecture notes on instruments, to games in music theory. So if your music education is your thing I invite you to check out this website.