"Choices and Values: What's Important to Me?" Survey

In my class, Gifted and Talented we took a survey to find what we value, and to my surprise the survey was insanely accurate. My results are listed below:

1. Perseverance
2. Family, Love, Emotional Security
3. Personal Freedom, Independence
4. Family, Love, Emotional Security
5. Education, Intelligence, Wisdom

I was first told by the survey that I valued Perseverance, the survey was correct. I try to give me best effort in everything I do and will always persevere through hard times as well as difficult tasks among other things. I feel when you make it through a difficult time, it builds character, although that can depend on how difficult the experience is. If you go through war, on occasions character is lost and people change. If you're experience is a minor difficulty compared to war though, for example, if you persevere through football season, character is built quite often. The second value I have is family, I value family more than anything I can think of at the moment. This corresponds with the survey considering it listed the value of Family, Love, Emotional Security twice. I value a secure and positive family life because if something's wrong, your family is always there. Some people say a football team is like a family, and that's another reason why I love football. Being independent is a value of mine, because it's a learning experience. I value independence as a learning experience and that only, because I don't want to be independent all my life, I want to have maybe eight years of independence. My independence will end eventually once I have a wife and a family. Finally, my last value is Education, Intelligence, Wisdom; I find that this is important to me because I like when I know algorithms, theories, and history. I find it a compliment when a peer of mine asks for help on a worksheet or homework. To make it in the world today, it's always a good asset to obtain a good education, a value that is with you until death. 

My values could define me in a way, but most of all they define who I want to be. I think this survey says in the future I want to be a man who perseveres, love's his family, has independence, and is very intelligent. 

Outliers Chapter Seven

Outliers chapter seven was an extremely insightful and unfortunate chapter as it combed through only a few unfortunate plane crashes in which hundreds died. The chapter mainly focused on the amount of human errors made by the captains and first officers. Malcom Gladwell showed in chapter seven how different cultural legacy can affect the way one acts to superiority. The Colombian first officer on Avianca 052 was extremely afraid to command something to superiority such as "We must land now" or what have you. This was one of the reasons the plane crashed, the first officer beat around the bush too much.

Chapter seven of Outliers really taught me one lesson, and that was to know how to speak in what situation. Whether I should be commanding, or I should hint, there should be circumstances where I know when to do what. I believe in my cultural legacy, we are communicating in many ways depending on the environment. For example in my house my mother will ask me "Will you take out the trash?" I know that this really means "Go take out the trash" although she doesn't ever actually say that. In other instances though, I will be directed. For example my father is driving in the city with me in the back and says "Be quiet it's rush hour." These I haven't noticed until writing this blog post. Funny the way some things are said.

Outliers Chapter 6

Currently in Gifted and Talented we are reading the book "Outliers" and this blog post will be about "Outliers" not the whole book though, merely chapter six. Chapter six in a nutshell is about the south and how there is an unkown code that is called "culture of honor." A culture of honor is to have self respect for yourself while to make sure others have self respect for you as well. A culture of honor having the same attitudes to certain subjects. A culture of honor could be dieing with respect. A culture of honor is better explained in the following link about culture of honor in the South.

In the early 1990's two psychologists, Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett, began an expirement to test the culture of honor. For their expirement they gathered a bunch of young men, and insulted them. They then evaluated their reactions throughout the expirement. After insulted the young men walked down a narrow hallway one by one before and after insulted. Coming from the other direction was a man who was six three two hundred and fifty pounds. Before the southerners were insulted they stopped nine feet before the other man, but after insulted they stopped under two feet ahead. They were obviously looking for a fight. The northerners stopped at the same distance before and after insulted, five feet.

I believe cultural legacy is when you feel the need to follow in your ancestors footsteps. To be somewhat like them in one way or another, to keep the same attitude and keep your family name good. I personally think my cultural legacy would be to be kind, but yet assertive and not a pushover. To obtain a well paying job, support a family, and protect them. To work diligently and be committed to everything I pursue. This, I believe is my cultural legacy, and will do my best to follow it. This is my cultural legacy from my observations of my ancestors that I know from my mother's and father's family. In my opinion, they fit this description.

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I'm Hank and I have many different interests. I play football, as well as baseball and I love to weight lift. This blog was created for my class Gifted and Talented.