Genius Hour Day 6

02-27-2017

          Today for my genius hour I decided to do something different and watch a Ted talk "The Battle Between Your Present and Future Self." By: Daniel Goldstein. I wanted to watch the talk in order to allow me to hear views of the self in order to help me develop my notes to self. I have learnt that there are two selves within a person and because of that, the research I found on having a balance of positive and negative notes is beneficial in order to reach and grow within the two selves. These notes allow me to commit to something I enjoy and/or did not like in my day in order to change things to achieve my goals and grow on the positive things that are guiding me to my goal.

Goldstein, D. (2011). The battle between your present and future self. Retrieved from: https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_goldstein_the_battle_between_your_present_and_future_self

 

          For my next genius hour research, I will try to go in this process of writing something good that is allowing me to reach my goal and something that I should work on that is inhibiting my future self. I realized that writing both positive and negative notes are good; however, when thinking back to my notes, I am constantly focusing on the negative. For my next research I wish to research how to focus on positive, rather than negative.

Genius Hour Day 5

02-21-2017

          Today is my fifth genius hour and I am unsure as to how I am coming about it. I have done research on the positive and negative affects of writing notes to oneself in my two previous hours and found that there are some negative outcomes of writing positive notes to self. Because of these findings I am writing my note to self with one good and one negative thing about my day. I sat down for a while and thought deeply on what I wanted to write. This was a challenge for me because I did not know what was an appropriate negative thing to write on my note. I tried to think of something that I wish went better without being extremely negative as I am trying to see if writing about that negative thing will allow me to reflect on it and develop a strategy to make it better.
          For next weeks genius hour, I feel that it is important to continue the negative comments to see if it is more beneficial than writing all positive. This needs to occur in my future genius hours to actually see an affect as one negative note will not have an impact on anything. Until next week!

   - Miss Maddalene Tuzi

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Genius Hour Day 4

02/14/17


In todays genius hour I spent time researching the negative factors in writing positive notes to oneself. I researched many videos and websites within this hour. What I have learned in this genius hour is that it may not be beneficial to constantly focus on the positive factors in your life. This may not be beneficial because it is important to recognize the negative things in order to reflect on them and develop skills and emotions to overcome those negative experiences, rather than ignore them.
This resonated with me because I have experienced a few days where I struggled to write a positive note to myself as there were many negatives that were weighing me down, but I ignored them and forced myself to think of something positive. This is not beneficial because those negative experiences are still with me and I feel that I only covered them up. The trouble I had this week was grasping that fact that it is okay to look and reflect on the negative aspects within your day and that we all need a balance of looking at both negative and positive. This challenged my thinking about how I want to continue these notes to myself as I question if I want to gain a balance and start reflecting on the negative as well. For my upcoming genius hours, I may turn towards developing a negative and positive balance of notes in order to see how that affects my emotion rather than strictly focusing on the positive.

Feature Pics. (February 14th, 2017). Happy Vs. sad emotions on a scale balance. Retrieved from http://www.featurepics.com/online/Happy-Sad-Moods-2905198.aspx

Genius Hour Day 3

02-06-2017


Today was another day of my genius hour. For todays genius hour I decided to focus on researching if writing notes to self will affect ones emotional state. I looked at websites, studies and TED talks. It was interesting to find that most of the results said that writing notes to self can increase ones happiness as it is a process of recognizing and seeing the good and ignoring the bad. Summing up majority of my findings suggest that writing notes increase 5 aspect of ones life. These 4 aspects are 1)Happiness 2)Success 3)Gives you something to look forward to 4)Confidence/Esteem 5)Positive life experiences and meaning. Though I found a lot of common findings on writing notes to self, my difficulty was finding negatives about writing notes to self. I have yet to find negative factors, thus I will use that as my focus next genius hour. Something I need to do before my next genius hour is to reflect on how writing my notes could be a negative thing. When writing my note today, I am reflecting on what I have learnt about the positive outcomes found from writing a note.



Tuzi, M. (February 06th, 2017). Note Writing.