Link to the article

Link between the article and my experience in the podcast project

“Mental Toughness is Built Through Small Physical Wins”
– This directly links to my experience during the challenge (screen free meals) as I had to consistently resist my desire to look at my phone during meals, meaning that every time was like a victory to me for not looking at my phone.
“Mentally tough people don’t have to be more courageous, more talented, or more intelligent — just more consistent”
– Similarly, it was not that I needed a motivation to change my habit of looking at my phone during meals. It was just my desire to consistently complete this challenge to eventually change my habit.

“Develop a routine that gets you going regardless of how motivated you feel”
– This is what the challenge was to help me avoid looking at my phone during meals and communicate with the people around me. The challenge itself was a routine that got me going regardless of my desire to look at my phone.

This would be very useful as we enter the last three months of the year because we have to keep the consistency of studying hard regardless of how tired we are in order to be successful, and in this case, to do well on the final tests.

Partner Agreement
– I think that instead of just uploading the audio recording to the shared document, we could have also done additional things to enhance communication and collaboration between partners, such as communicating through social media about what the day was like with screen free dinner to further understand each other.
– I think this podcast project could have turned out better if we thought more deeply about our personality traits since both of our personalities lack active communication, meaning that if we tried to communicate more with each other, we could have understood each other more, hence creating more insightful podcast.
– I think I most need communication and enthusiasm from a partner because when there is no communication, you will not be able to fully know what your partner thinks of the project, and this could possibly result in misunderstanding between partners. When there is no desire to successful complete the project, it wouldn’t be fun working with your partner, and I think being able to enjoy working with your partner is the most important thing I need as I can produce better works with people I enjoy working with.

Swiss army knife for emotions
– Sharpest tool : Hinge (opening up to others) I think I have been very expressive with my partner during this challenge as I was very straightforward in a sense. When there was something missing or wrong with the communication, collaboration, or the project itself, I immediately talked to my partner about his opinion and how we could change this to make it work out.
– Weakest tool : Scissor (cutting out distractions) I think i have to spend more time using this tool because we have faced a few distractions during the project, especially because we spent most of our time working in school. Using this tool will be very helpful in the future because with this tool, we can effectively complete the challenge on time without having to deal with surrounding distractions.