Solutions To My Frustrations

September 11, 2013

Our day started out with Isa’s morning meeting. She showed us a video in which life is described by jellybeans; it showed how much time we take in life to do certain things, for example how many days of our life we take in driving to places. The video ended by showing how many days we have of leisure. The point of Isa’s morning meeting was to make a plan to actually carry out our dreams or goals in that leisure time that we have left in our lives. We each wrote down what we wanted to do in that time. Personally, I want to do so many things that I didn’t even know were to start, so I wrote down one of the goals that I want to carry out soon. I want to learn how to cook; its not that I don’t know how to cook, its just that I don’t do it well and I’m always craving food that I cant get here, so I have decided to do it myself. After this activity, I now know that I cant use “I don’t have enough time” as an excuse because we do have time, not a lot but there is still some for us to do all of those things that we want to do.

We later had our first Socrates Café together. The questions that we had were al good, but there was one that specially stuck me. The question was this: “If we have a lot of cool dreams, why don’t we always make them true?” Well, we decided that it is because we have fear and a lot of mental barriers. This got me thinking of something that I do often, usually when I have to do something important or talk to someone important, I delay the task and try to leave it for the last minute. Well, this usually results in me not doing the task at the end, and I end up without the opportunity of something. Now that I think of it, I think I do this because I am afraid that things wont turn out, or that I wont get the opportunity. But then this is ridiculous, because by not doing it, I lose the opportunity anyways. Well, the first step to change is to realize that there is something to change. Now I know what I do wrong, so my next step is to change it.

My favorite, and probably most frustrating, part of the day was Mechanics. At first I was frustrated because we were asking many questions, and I knew the answers, but didn’t say anything and at the end, when someone else said them, they were correct. I think most of the times this happened because I think I was afraid of being wrong (which is dumb, because at the end I was right). Well, this happened more than one, so I was frustrated. On the bright side, the dialogue was great, and I think we made a lot of process in understanding the text.  After lunch, we also got together to discuss mechanics and then try to solve something in smaller groups. Now let me tell you, I felt like a genius. I don’t know if anybody else got it, but I am sure that I understood it. After careful reasoning, I finally got an idea of how to solve it, I tried it a couple of times more, and I didn’t see any fault in it. I explained it to Chacho and Carmen and they both seemed to understand it. Also in this dialogue, I found the cure to my frustrations when I talk (when I don’t make my point clear). All I have to do is take a deep breath before I talk. I noticed that I get very agitated and excited once I get an idea, and that makes me mix up all of my words. Well, all I’ve got to say is that I love today’s class.

We later had another great dialogue about Human Action. This was our introduction to it, and I think we all have high expectations for that book.  Our introduction started out by a “family tree” of Austrian Economics, we read the table of contents and then we proceeded to read some of the book. I cant wait to start reading the book.