Life Skills Blog - Feb 3, 2014

This weeks life skill was on the skill of trust. What i felt was ambivalence. I know that trust is important, and a key element in developing relationships and opportunity, but i have such a hard time with it. Again, Im not sure how to balance the knowledge that trust can and at some times, will be broken, while also knowing how key it is. I react to this emotion by trying to de personalize my response, and take in only what is being taught or talked about at that time, in our class. I think in life skills I need to constantly work to turn off my overactive brain and remain present in the moment, in the class, with only the content being presented. I watched the 'Other Resources' TED Talk at home. Some things He said that stood out to me were: 'experiment requires failure' - a reminder that failure is a learning experience, and a necessary one ' distrust in generation has increased ' - something i feel tangibly, in society and is especially echo'ed with all my time spent with my grandparents and their generation (born in 1916), volunteering in retirement homes. ' nothing replaces human contact ' - in light of all that we can now do online, or without interacting face to face. Theres nothing i would do differently, with this lesson