I should have thought about engaging the same sort of questions I was asking myself about how I use technology, and how much screen time I spend staring at a screen for “work” and say that I’m “busy” when all I may be doing is clicking around the screen which is the reality of screen usage. I did share this sort of idea by asking questions to my partner so that my partner would proactively engage with the concept of screen usage and distributing time spent on the screen. However, this worked as a learning experience for me because I realise now that not all people have the same mindset in terms of work, or even work ethic. Maybe getting to know my partner’s work style and way of thinking and going about solving a challenge will be most useful for me in the future to help me collaborate with the like-minded or different-minded individual. Having an awareness of their problem-solving style will enable me to ask the right questions to intrigue them or even go an extra step and maybe even help them by taking them through step by step depending on how they learn best.

As in the partnership agreement, I think I could have thought some more about sharing my set of personal traits with my partner, and vice versa. And although we supported each other to our maximum abilities, I think we weren’t able to absorb each other’s personality traits fully and I’d like to try work toward doing that more in the next project we do in the last three months of this class. And being able to become a magnet of skills and traits from my partners will be my final goal for the end of this year, and being able to transfer my energy to my the other magnet which may even be repelled by me will be my end goal, because being able to collaborate and build on someone who may not find me of any significant importance in their life, is something that will help end the problem of selfishness in today’s society, being able to become a force united by every single magnet will create an electromagnetic force for the world which will spread around the whole world to create a stronger workforce and ethically minded individuals working in the future workplace instead of non-driven people who are surrounded by other non-driven people causing a negative influence on the people who are driven to spread their sense of perseverance and grit to the ones around them. I feel as though an outlier in this matter when it comes to a classroom setting because my grit, without bragging, is authentically very strong and feels sometimes repelled and pushed away by the other magnets who may not feel the same as me when it comes to working ethic. But like a magnet, there are a few other magnets who have the same grit as me but don’t really show it, and so another goal is to find those magnets and get them to share their force of grit with the magnets who are repelled, by going side by side instead of appearing as a bossy figure. But taking this out of an analogy and figuring out the magnetic forces in the workplace will be something

The tool used to unbottle the real feelings was the sharpest for me in this project since I had the chance to get deep down rather than saying generic things that anyone would say, because this podcast was a way of pinning down what experienced and why my thinking is different to that of others, as I have a Contrary Belief. I need to use this scissors more to cut out the distractions which take away from my grit.