February
29
February
29
Gymnastic Evidence
February
23
Homefire character mapping
February
21
Season 2 CAS overview
February
17
Science society planning reflection
Doing research for science society meant that I had to think about different areas that I wanted to look at. This meant that I had to plan things to research and find out different ideas while working with my group. We planned everything to do from the beginning and even though sometimes things didn’t follow the plan we kept making changes and got good result. This show that our planning was successful. Doing the research was important because it was on a global issue of air pollution which meant that the things we did could also help educate other people. But this means that we had to be careful and make sure that we did everything the right was because if we gave wrong information then other people could be impacted and they might think the wrong things.
February
17
Reason and Emotion
Reason and Emotion
Write about 300 words.
- How do you think you use them?
- What kind of balance is there in how you use these contrasting WOK?
- Can you think of any examples where you relied on both emotion and reason to ‘know’ something or decide on something?
Most of the time, my decision-making process contains two parts: I use emotions to decide what exactly do I want to achieve, and then use reasoning to think how am I going to most effectively achieve it. For example, when I choose subjects for IB last year, I used both my reasoning and emotion, went through a lot to finally make the decision. For choosing 1 subject in humanities, my possible choices are psychology, geography, business, and economics. For other subjects I just don’t even want to think about it, so that’s the emotion part. For this 4, I used reasoning: created a decision matrix; criteria are interest, my ability, future perspective. I remember business got the highest score so I chose business management despite that a lot of people were telling me that business is useless and more work compared to economics. Another decision is much harder: I need to choose 2 from biology, chemistry, and visual arts. Mr. Stirrat recommends me to use a method which is to record in a bar chart every day for what I intuitively want to choose. Then over 2 weeks, I can know which option got more points. I thought this idea is really interesting, but I didn’t use this method, because I do not trust my intuition at all. By reasoning, I should choose bio-chem. I’m not going to explain it in detail, but it’s just a better fit, better for my future, better for my score, and I like it too. However, when I went to tell my decision to Mr. Scott, it’s very difficult to say it out, and I felt really sad and meaningless for the following few days. And I changed chemistry back to visual art. My emotion is strong enough for me to ignore my reasoning in this situation. So I am the kind of person who would reason out everything but just decide on emotion. I’m not sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, but I feel lucky that I am able to follow my heart.