- Understand fear and anxiety, and their differences.
- Fear is about what’s happening right now. It powerfully colours judgement.
- Anxiety is chronic, worrying about things that can probably go wrong in the future. It hijacks creativity.
- Decisions are made based on choices going through an emotional filter. Your emotions affect your decision making.
- Learn to master yourself and your emotions to be a leader.
- The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship
- Fear -> Anxiety -> Burnout -> Depressed -> Overwhelming -> Start blaming on people and things.
- Learn how to prioritise your workload
- Cultures of Fear:
- – Scarcity: not enough money, time, support
- – Aversion: not feeling right. having the wrong experience: guilt, upset, inexperienced, overwhelmed. When the world doesn’t show up the way your expected, you feel resistant
- – Unworthiness: I’m not enough. Understand the company’s failure is different from your personal failure. It’s important to unwind these 2 things to maintain the identity of yourself.
- Be considerate about cultural sensitivity, eg:
- – Asia: you cannot fail
- – America: fail fast, fail often, fail cheap.
But today I checked the add-ons out, because I’m procrastinating… 😛
This is going to ease up every writers’ nightmares: referencing.
After a year of writing what seems like countless papers, I have learned by heart how to use APA reference properly. However, what I have still struggled with is looking for information about the book’s publishers and what edition to use.
EasyBib makes it so easy for me, all I need to do it dropping the book’s / paper’s title to the search box, select the referencing style (eg: APA) and ta-da! the result appears and what’s left is just adding the bibliography to the doc. Too easy really.
(Tool is great, but don’t get lazy. Maybe it’s good to learn how to reference manually anyway! 🙂 )
This is another easy and super useful tool that I’ve just found. What I like about Thesaurus is it not only helps me find a replacement for the word I’d like to change but also gives me new words to learn. Way to go with my writing duties! 🙂
Had a brief chat with Prof today and with the programme coordinator, next steps are:
- Prepare a study plan
- Outline a couple of topic
- Book a time to talk to the programme manager
- Book a time to catch up with Prof
Currently looking at:
- pacific | media | journalism | sexism | climate change | human rights | refugees
Last week I had two final lectures for this semester. Looking back, that was the right choice to pick ‘Global crises and media’ and ‘Asia Pacific journalism’. What I’ve been engaged these past 4 months are global and regional issues: climate change, human rights, media censorship, politics, refugees, financial crisis, transgender rights, etc and etc, and even the American president election, which I would have ignored if not for taking up the classes. While I looked into climate change specifically and intensively to work on the classes’ assignments, I have also made an effort to read up about other issues as well. They are all connected and inform each other. What I have come to realise is perhaps I connect mostly to the humanity angle of all issues. I have felt extremely upset learning some Pacific islands are sinking and the people have stopped hoping. I was also angered by the mass shooting in Oregon that has happened recently. I am absolutely anxious about the domestic violence issue that’s happening in Vietnam and New Zealand. If I can sum up my feelings, I have sympathy for people who suffer and who die in these events. Nobody deserves to.
This realisation leads me to thinking about looking into how media touches on the humanity angle when reporting these issues. My recent mini-researches indicate that news often emphasises on the event itself and its damages, including the calculus of death. However, news that is not event-based, how does it cover the humanity side of the issue? Surely, we know climate change causes environmental extreme conditions that directly impact on human lives; however, how is it reported in media news that discusses climate change?
I’ll be jotting down my thoughts here as I go.
I have started sem 2 with less excitement as how I had with sem 1. This is what experience does to you. I had actually looked forward to going to the lectures and learning about new things (in this case, global crises, media, and journalism); however, the thought of assignments and how I struggled with assignments in sem 1 had then put me off.
After the lectures this week, I can confirm that the assignments are not going to be fun. Fret not, let’s just deal with them head-on.