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Blind spot (what is it, why it exists)

Correlations (positive versus negative, interpreting a correlation, correlation coefficients,

limitations)

Experiments (hypothesis, independent and dependent variables, control group, random

assignment)

Face blindness

Gestalt principles of organization (similarity, proximity, closure, simplicity)

How SSRI drugs work

Limbic system (what it is, major functions)

Lobes of the brain (their names, where they are, major functions associated with them)

Major brain structures and their major functions

Major divisions of the nervous system and what they do (somatic/autonomic,

sympathetic/parasympathetic)

Major perspectives on psychology (psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, neuroscience,

humanistic)

Major structures of the ear and their functions

Naturalistic observation (what it is, contrast it to experimentation)

Negative afterimages

Neuron function (action potential, all-or-none law, importance of the synapse, reuptake,

inhibitory and excitatory messages)

Neurons (major structures and their functions, presynaptic versus postsynaptic, mirror neurons)

Neuroplasticity

Neurotransmitters (what they are, names of major ones, what major disorders are associated

with specific ones)

Psychological specializations (clinical, counseling, health, developmental, social, etc.)

Rods and cones (major differences)

Scientific method

Split-brain research (major findings)

Top-down and bottom-up processing

Visual processing (fovea, retina, rods and cones, bipolar and ganglion cells, optic nerve, optic

chiasma, theories of color vision, primary visual cortex)

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TO DO BY SUNDAY 9/15

HW 1.5-1.6

HW 1.8

Mini Quiz 1.8

Packback #2

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To do

To do by 9/8

HW 1.1 ✔️

HW 1.4 (9/10)✔️

Mini Quiz 1.1✔️

Mini Quiz 1.4 (Do once lecture gets released to see if we missed anything)✔️

Reflection Journal (draft, just needs to be submit by Sunday)

Pack back question#1 (Do tonight) ✔️

Pack back response ✔️

Buy art materials (Before 9/8)

To do by 9/11

Mini quiz 1.5 and 1.6

HW 1.5 and 1.6

To do by 9/12

Properties exploration activity

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Reflection Journal 1

What do you think of when you hear "Craft?" What do you think of when you hear "Science?"

When thinking of craft, my mind tends to gear towards arts and crafts (its in the name after all). I think of simple things for kids like paper based projects (ex: paper cut outs or figures) or stick art. Only when I think more deeply do I broaden it down to things like pottery or wood working, crafts that can be considered a career. None of those align to what I visualize when it comes to science; my mind jumps right into a chemical lab or biology.

What similarities and differences to you see between the "Craft" and "Science" perspectives?

At first they seem completely different from one another, but when actually trying to think of reasons why they are, I realize there isn't. Both require a lot of critical thinking and understanding of the medium. For crafts, you have to understand what material you're working with. Although I'm not super into pottery, I do understand the type of clay matters. The properties that go into them shape how you work with them or the result you get. For example, some clays might require a kettle in order to dry whereas others do not. Others might be more durable or more flexible to mold, therefore a potterer would have to think critically about what materials he'll be using for what he wants to make. The same applies to a scientist; they would have to be careful on what chemicals to mix to get the desired result. In general, there is a science to everything, so it's unavoidable when it comes to similarities.

Its correlations like these that make me believe in the importance of craft to teach science, because I believe it'll help non-science people like me learn and gain an interest in the subject. While I am no potterer or craftsmen of any sorts, I do have an interest in art. I find myself to enjoy doing things with my hand more than listening to someone talk about a subject I hardly know about or care for. So by overlapping it with things like blacksmithing or glassblowing, my interest automatically gets piqued. Even people who aren't into art likely would be interested in learning or watching someone blow glass or sculpt a pot. And by overlapping that with science, which basically is explaining the process to the craft, it'll likely stick with people.

What I'm hoping for that by the end of class, I'll have learned something and that it sticks with me. I've never been big into science and I can hardly recount anything that I've learned in that topic over the years. But if I'm in a class where I'm being taught something that involves art or my hands, I'm hoping that the scientific knowledge behind my materials or methods will stick with me.

Based on class discussion, how much overlap is there between my goals for this class and yours right now?

What value do I (Justin) bring to a class like this, based on my history and cares and interests?

What value to you bring to this class, based on your history and cares and interests?

 “Why use the activities of Craft – in particular, things like pottery and brewing and blacksmithing – to learn science?”

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adoration | gochi, dragon ball

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wha huh goku family sillies. i love them a lotttt ouuuouououauaaaahahuuu baby gohan staring at goku with a deep focuz only toddlers can summon................

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we are so back

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Everything takes time, and I'll be fine (again)

Social relationships: Those were a major impact on how I viewed myself and my form of self. The people I chose to associate with were what influenced my personality as well as how I saw myself. It took a lot of cutting people off to figure out who I really was and the person I wanted to be. It changed how I saw myself. My lack of social relationships also played a role in it.

Self: For the longest time, I had no idea who I was because of all the muddled social relationships. I didn’t like myself and was told who I was, it was bad. I felt like everything I felt and did was wrong.

Physical World: I actually longed for real escapism. I wanted to run away physically because I felt as if that would be freeing. I just wanted an escape from all my problems and my feelings, and I hoped that by actually leaving it would free me.

I remember when I was twelve, I was hearing about how a lot of kids around my age were beginning to develop depression and anxiety. Classmates had it, my friends apparently had it, and the silliest thing is that for some reason, that made me feel left out. I wanted to be suffering too and be given special attention and sympathy for it. So I made myself sad on purpose and began crying to my mother and brother about how I had 'mild depression', to which they both took seriously and considered looking into therapy. Thankfully, I was able to grow a conscious and talk them out of it. I didn't have any real problems at the time that truly required a therapist.

When I look back on my life, I wouldn't say I had a troubled life. I had a relatively good childhood with it's ups and downs every now and then, as any kid would, but I was loved and happy. I made friends despite my introverted personality and had plenty of relationships. Although if I were to pinpoint a life where I struggled deeply, it was during my junior and senior year of high school, and my social relationships played a large part in it. The people I had in my life had a time, platonic or romantic, plays a large part in my sense of self, and they did especially during my last years of school.

I wouldn't describe my high school experience the same as others. While some had it worst, I think we can all say that the pandemic changed a lot of our lives during that period, especially when it came to school. I had been finishing my freshman year when it hit. What had began as a two week vacation spiraled into a long period of social isolation. I was already a shy kid that was starting to come out of her shell in the first year of high school only for it to be ripped away from her. During it, I lost friends either from conflict or us drifting away, and I began to feel lonely like many others. There wasn't any good way for you to meet others or make friends when most of your classes are online, and even when we returned to school in person, the climate was quiet. Students were unfamiliar with one another and hesitant to approach each other with the risk of Covid. Clubs like DND, one that I had been in originally, didn't survive through the pandemic. So for quiet introvert like myself, I found it hard to find new people. It didn't help that I didn't have anyone to rely on, I had mostly drifted away from my old friends and had broken up with someone I had once been close with.

The only person I was relying on was my boyfriend at the time, one I had been dating with since middle school. And that was a TERRIBLE relationship. I was too young and immature to see that we were unhealthy for each other. I was blinded by a sense of 'love' and a fear of being alone, that I justified our countless and pointless arguments as me needing to change so I didn't trigger disagreements. I excused behavior that upset me, I adjusted my personality to better suit his interests and keep the relationship a float, I blamed myself for it's problems. All because I didn't want to lose him and be alone. It was through that relationship where I suppose I began to lose my sense of self. It was muddled and murky with a conflicting desire to change and please him, yet I also hated him and how I was always the one to fix things. I let him belittle and insult me, and I let him get away with it. I even believed some of it too.

If I had to summarize my four years with him, I would say it was a rollercoaster with a lot of fights and insults, and a lot of me crying and apologizing while running back to him.

I remember one thing he always pointed to as a problem was how 'sensitive' I was. I was too emotional, I overreacted too much, and I believed it all without giving a second thought that perhaps, maybe, I was a little justified in my feelings. But I always put his view of my self over how I saw it. I only saw it through his lenses. It was during that period I began to develop a desire for escapism. An escape from my loneliness and an escape from him. I wanted to physically run away from my life, jump from city to city without ever returning or staying in one place. I remember being in class and having the desire to just jump out of the window and fly away. Being with him began to feel suffocating and I felt more drained the longer I stayed. I began to feel apathetic to him and everything, to the point that one day when I was with him, I felt completely numb to him entirely.

When I think of that relationship, I felt like that was what first love really felt like. A burst of passion, youth who were infatuated and obsessed with each other, so much so they were blind to their flaws. I loved him dearly and every second of my waking day was spent with him. Even at night, we stayed up calling and fell asleep on the phone just to stay with each other. I felt as if that was what real love was. Someone that truly loved you and accepted you, someone that you actually enjoyed being around with. He was every bit like that. And again I began to build my life around my relationship. He was the source of my happiness and the only person I wanted to talk to, and it was him that kept my mental health afloat.

Writing it out, I think it's easy to see how quickly it went bad. We rushed into a relationship and were clearly heavily infatuated with one another to the point I became co-dependent on him for my social life and my well being. So when he began having his own life and needing space for himself, I began to spiral and struggle. I began comparing myself to him and envying him for being able to build relationships so easily with others while I barely could. Self loathing slowly consumed me the more I compared myself to him, to my old friends for being able to make new friends or know what they wanted to do in school. With that self hatred came anxiety, leading to me crying more often and starting fights within my relationship. This led to a perpetual cycle where I would become paranoid and emotional, start a fight, and then my anxiety would grow from the tension I caused. It led to me hating myself more as I found more and more flaws, and less things to like myself. I fell back into blaming myself and back into the need for escapism.

Most days and nights I spent crying in sessions of berating myself for my feelings or every mistake I had ever done. It was my fault for ruining things, for causing my own suffering, and I was a terrible person in my mind. I couldn't tell from right or wrong anymore, it was all a murky mush.

I hated myself, I hated my life, I wanted to end it all without actually dying. I just had to get out of my life. I began to sleep in and come late to school, or outright skip it because I was too depressed to bother. I remember waking up one day at 10 am, two hours after classes had already started. There was a heavy weight on my chest that felt like a continuous spiral; rotating and scratching up against my skin to be freed, to explode out. I was too lazy to bother with the walk to the train station and opted for a bus ride instead. But it was the same feeling of wanting to run that burst in me again. I didn't want to go to school, I didn't want to go home, I didn't want to be anywhere. I wanted to go somewhere I didn't escape. So when I arrived at my stop, I stayed. I stayed on till I had to take the train, and then took it to go as far as to the end to leave it all behind.

However despite being in an unfamiliar station, far from my school and everything I had ever known, I still felt the need to cry. To break down and sob. Nothing felt right anymore and nothing felt like home anymore. I had no one to turn to in my mind and the person I did want to go to, I couldn't because I would only mess things up.

So in the end, leaving the physical world I had known did nothing. So I rode the train back home.

My relationship didn't last too long. Right when our one year anniversary was coming up, he ended up breaking up with me. At the time, I had been friends with a girl that had introduced to me to him, and I turned to her for advice.

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THINGS TO KEEP TRACK OF... I GUESS.

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PRESENTATION

What is the article’s argument?

So this week, I read the article Seeing What We Know by Amy Vidali. Basically the paper talks about the role of disabilities in metaphors and the theories surrounding it.

What it basically explores is the relation between physical experiences with the body and how that influences metaphors. For example, postures can determine mood. We associate up with happiness and down with sadness, so if we see someone slouching we might naturally assume they're low on energy versus someone sitting up right.

An example the article primarily explores is Knowing is Seeing, which refers to metaphors rooted in the role of vision being part of a human knowing. For example, "I see what you mean" or "It's clear to me now." Here, vision is highlighted as a positive thing because it allows for knowledge and coherence. Whereas the oppositive and negative would be blindness, like "She was blind to the critique." Here, blindness would represent misunderstanding or ignorance.

The issue with metaphors like these is that it kind of assumes that you had the "primary experience", like being able to see and hear, without any regards to those who probably didn't ever experience it at all. Metaphors like these gear to only one type of physical experiences. The consequences of those who never had that 'normal' experience is never addressed.

Another issue is that these metaphors surrounding or involving disabilities usually frame them in a negative manner. When mentioning them, they serve as the 'opposite' to what is a normal body, it represents the disorder both physically and socially. (A blind person cannot see like others; she was blind to the truth vs she could see what he meant). This is similar to the light and dark metaphor; we view light as inherently good whereas darkness is bad. It can reinforce that the opposite of disabilities is good.

This can also be applied to other metaphors, like up and down. When we think of up, we usually associate it with happiness whereas down equals sad. But what about people who are always drooping because of a disability? Do we assume or view them as being sad, despite the fact that's how they are naturally and cannot stand upright to be happy? It ignores the nuances of body language with emotion.

However instead of policing metaphors, what we can do is approach it with a disability approach. We should diversify them is by including other senses. By adding more senses, like taste and smell, it can make it more accessible to others.

What is your personal position on this argument and why?

I found the article interesting because personally, I never gave metaphors that much thought. I don't take them too literally since they're supposed to be just metaphors, like how I wouldn't think it's actually raining cats and dogs if someone said that to me. I would just assume yes, the weather is super bad out. The same goes for if I hear metaphors using sight or hearing. I don't inherently think badly about disabled people, but it DOES frame disabilities as negative. I naturally associate seeing clearly with being good vs something being murky (like an argument) or flat out blind as bad. This is because those metaphors utilizing it frames sight as coherency and blindness as ignorance or confusion, when that isn't always the case in reality.

It also reminds me of the war argument we had over cancer, if we should change the metaphors around battling cancer or diseases because it brings war into what is actually a natural process. And similarly to it, I don't think we need to change or police them like the article mentions. Instead, we should diversify them and challenge or reclaim metaphors that come off as ablest.

A good example of this is a poem on Francois Huber, a renown bee-researcher who was blind.

Sometimes bees, the glittering

curtain they form, cling to myface,

& the moment before knowing

I can imagine them a leaf, able to be

brushed away, but they

hold on, their tongues

seek each pore,

as if my cheek offered nectar, they move

delicately, caress & shade, as if not threatening

to flood my eyes. (13)

Through this poem, it provides a new perspective beyond knowing is seeing, by utilizing other senses that allowed him and the bees to know each other. This includes things such as touch and taste, and even emotion. Metaphors like these rejects the "Knowing is Seeing" and shows the diverse ways of 'seeing' knowledge beyond sight.

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PRESENTATION DRAFT

What is the article’s argument?

So this week, I read the article Seeing What We Know by Amy Vidali. Basically the paper talks about the role of disabilities in metaphors and the theories surrounding it.

What it basically explores is the relation between physical experiences with the body and how that influences metaphors. For example, postures can determine mood. We associate up with happiness and down with sadness, so if we see someone slouching we might naturally assume they're low on energy versus someone sitting up right.

An example the article primarily explores is Knowing is Seeing, which refers to metaphors rooted in the role of vision being part of a human knowing. For example, "I see what you mean" or "It's clear to me now." Here, vision is highlighted as a positive thing because it allows for knowledge and coherence. Whereas the oppositive and negative would be blindness, like "She was blind to the critique." Here, blindness would represent misunderstanding or ignorance.

It assumes that everyone has had this as a primary experience and excludes disabled experiences

Metaphors kind of assume you had the "primary experience" (like being able to see and hear, etc.) without any regards to those who probably didn't ever experience it at all (aka those with disabilities)

Metaphors around or involving disabilities are usually in a negative manner

It serves as the 'opposite' to what is a normal body, it represents the disorder both physically and socially. (A blind person cannot see like others, she was blind to the truth vs she could see what he meant)

Reinforce that the opposite of disabilities is good. (Ex: Her pleas fell on deaf ears, he was blind to the truth, blind leading the blind)

Metaphors mostly embody one type of body and doesn't really cover disabilities. Like we assume up/happiness and down/sadness. But what about people who are always drooping because of a disability? Do we assume or view them as being sad, despite the fact that's how they are naturally and cannot stand upright to be happy?

Instead of metaphors reflecting the "universal" bodily experience, they should recognize and include disabilities too

Knowing is Seeing can be an issue since visual channel isn't the only main way of learning or expressing knowledge

Knowing is seeing devalues the complex ways in which we "know"

While we don't have to change it, we should diversify it to include other senses to make it more widespread to others to use/relate to

What is your personal position on this argument and why?

I can see where the author is coming from. When I think of the metaphor, "blind leading the blind", I actually do picture two blind people leading each other and being aimless because they cannot see, similar to how the metaphor is trying to represent ignorance leading ignorance.

It also reminds me of the war argument we had over cancer, if we should change the metaphors around battling cancer or diseases because it brings war into what is actually a natural process.

How does this argument relate to (some of) the ideas of perception, cognition, self, cosmology, and narrative?

How does this article enrich our understanding of the accompanying literary text?

-Small summary:

-Dive into points you liked and explain

-Choose a passage

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TIMELINE OF ALLLLLLL MY FINALS AND STUFF SIGH.

May 7th: Mathlab due

May 9th: Presentation due in class and Perusall must be finished.

May 13th: Math exam in class. Literary Essay is due. WHAT THE FLIP!!!!!!!!!!

May14th: Justin's Birthday and Stephanie moves out.

May15th: I move out and go back home. WHAT THE FLIPP!!!!!!!1

May 16th: Econ exam is due. Must do within two hours, I can do it on May 15th too.

May 20th: Final assignment for Comp-Lit.

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LITERARY PHILOSPHY

-Writing is social

-It is part of your identity

-You should be allowed to express who you are through it, and that includes YOUR language. This can range from how you speak (like your speech patterns or word choices), languages (even accents count), and etc. They are part of who you are and does not communicate how intelligent you are.

-You should be allowed to write however you want if it's true to you without fearing if it makes you seem like smart or etc

-I also think writing can be a fun, casual activity. In my first essay I talked about how writing was a big part of me because it let me have fun and meet others who also liked writing in a more casual form

-Journaling is helpful. Different mediums of writing should be taught I guess? I think students would enjoy writing more if their perspective of it broadened to more forms (like journaling, roleplaying, story telling, etc). The digital memoirs can help with this ^.

-Writing should be viewed more than just academia.

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NOTES FOR FINAL LOL

HOMEWORK ONE:

Specialization leads to more productivity because if everyone is good at something specific, it increases more product. By specializing in certain parts, it increases the speed vs if everyone had to get good at the entire thing. Example: Building a car. Having everyone work together one different specific parts increases productivity and lessens the time if you had to do everything (like you had to move around to do shit)

Public Value/Value Mission: Actually align with the mission and with what the people actually want. Very humane but polices are not usually made with this intent. (Find what is that value? What is this mission? Find this in week four)

Back things up with data and citations. Paraphrasing is okay and do not use CHATGPT or you get an autofill

Unions: Something that gives workers a voice (they can speak up for rights, for better conditions, etc.). For example, if you go alone to ask for a higher wage, you're likely to get turned down. But in strength in numbers, you're more likely to get change. Can get you retirement security too and benefits extend not only to you, but your family as well. Unions don't only raise wages/or help those in the unions, it helps everyone.

Read the material

Don't riff about society btw

Speak to material realities that have manifested in several years that we've talked about

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ECON FINAL

1. Introduction to Political Economy

Weeks 1-4

In our first Module, we will learn about the big picture: what are the major institutions that shape how the U.S. economy works? What are the different ways that economic policymakers think about solving economic problems? What are the historical schools of thought that have shaped how we think about the economic choices available to us today?

2. Private Institutions: Businesses & Households

Weeks 5-10

In our second module, we will focus on production and consumption by private economic institutions: businesses and households. We will discuss some of the most important features of the U.S. political economy today: the dominance of large businesses; the labor market; the financial sector; and wealth inequality and the racial wealth gap.

3. Role of Government

Weeks 11-13

In our third module, we will discuss the role of government in the U.S. economy as a market-shaper, and different approaches to economic policymaking. We will discuss taxes and spending, universal public goods, and the importance of public options.

What are the key institutions in the U.S. economy? 

2. How do production and consumption occur?

WEEK 5 AND 6

-What’s their motivation? Profits—> making money to produce more goods and services over time, and to pay income out to everyone engaged in the production process

-How the income earned from production is divided is a major question of power between different groups that are involved in production

3. What economic policies structure the U.S. economy today, and what policies would better serve us? 

4. How do we use economic data to measure what is happening in the U.S. economy?

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If you still have no idea on what you are better at or like, then go the reversed way. What do you dislike? Don't go micro on this. There are four major things you can study. Business (includes finance/accounting/economics), Medical, Literary (law, journalism, etc.) and the rest. Tick off the stuff you don't like and work on it from there. You don't like medical, remove that from your likes. And just keep filtering it down until you've got something you can work with.

I don't like science at all. I never got into it and I still to this day have no idea what's going on in it

History feels like it can either be interesting or boring, but genuinely does not strike my as something I want to do anything with. I don't see the point in it (though I understand it's importance)

English I'm okay with but not super into? I don't see the importance of it besides it being fun and relaxing. I don't know if I care enough to write things all the time, it doesn't seem profitable nor boring or interesting. It just seems, fine.

Math is fun until you get confused and don't understand anything

MAJORS That interest me

Animal Science, Animal Biotechnology, and Biomedical Sciences

Veterinary Technology

Economics

Accounting

Finance

Art

Nursing

Psychology

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FINDING WHAT I WANT TO DO

I help many people with this problem. The first thought you have to get clear is that a career is not just to do what you like, but also to do that same thing in times you don't like it. read: responsibility. So if you don't like it at a certain times, you might as well do something that you know you can.

So the clearest indication to start this off is to check your grades. What are you better and what are you worse at. Since you don't particularly like anything, it means all your grades are essentially what you are good or bad at aka talent. Also it might be a simple sign of what you like as well (because people do better at things they like more).

Biology: C (I suffered very greatly in it, so definitely NOT science since it bored me out of my mind in my opinion)

ENGLWRIT: A (It was an easy intro class though, and personally I'm not super into writing)

History 117: A (Chinese History, I did NOT enjoy it but I put all my sweat and tears into it)

History 151: B (It was super easy and I also didn't care for it)

CURRENTLY:

Econ: (No grade yet but I struggled with getting into it, I am getting more interested in it now but I'm not passionate yet?)

Spiritual: (I think it's okay and more of a relaxing class)

Math: (I'm doing alright in it and I like doing it)

Writing Society: (I hate it and I think it's dumb.)

If you still have no idea on what you are better at or like, then go the reversed way. What do you dislike? Don't go micro on this. There are four major things you can study. Business (includes finance/accounting/economics), Medical, Literary (law, journalism, etc.) and the rest. Tick off the stuff you don't like and work on it from there. You don't like medical, remove that from your likes. And just keep filtering it down until you've got something you can work with.

I don't like science at all. I never got into it and I still to this day have no idea what's going on in it

History feels like it can either be interesting or boring, but genuinely does not strike my as something I want to do anything with. I don't see the point in it (though I understand it's importance)

English I'm okay with but not super into? I don't see the importance of it besides it being fun and relaxing. I don't know if I care enough to write things all the time, it doesn't seem profitable nor boring or interesting. It just seems, fine.

Math is fun until you get confused and don't understand anything about it

Secondly, pay attention to the things you don't mind doing. Since you said you don't have a particular interest in anything, just reverse-psychology it. Again, the idea is that there's a reason too why you don't mind doing certain things. Write it all down. Every day, keep note of what your personality is like. What are your best and worst traits. Who are you as a person. How do you react to things and why do you react to things. If you can keep it in mind, do so. If not, again, write it down. You don't need to have a list immediately, but try to work towards it.

The start of anyone's career is by knowing yourself. And you can only know by exploring. Doesn't mean you have to immediately go study, or to work, but truthfully, by doing something, you get to understand yourself more, thus bringing me back to the point earlier made: Know thyself.

If this is something you feel trouble enough to care about, then try to do something about it. If you feel that you cannot do it alone, find a friend to do it with you or your family. If you still cannot, come and find me. We can do this together.