Your Personality Says Everything

As I was reading through all the articles of my choice of topic, I came across the article

"How Your Personality Affects Your Health." http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/heart/articles/2010/09/22/how-your-personality-affects-your-health.html

Hostile
"One of the aspects of the impatient, hard-charging Type A personality that is known to increase heart disease. Hostile people eat and smoke more and exercise less than other personality types, says Redford Williams, head of behavioral medicine at Duke University Medical Center and author of Anger Kills. They're likelier to be overweight in middle age and have higher cholesterol and blood pressure. Williams's past research suggests hostile people are also more likely to develop irregular heart rhythms, and to die before reaching their 50s. Most of these problems can be traced back to elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol, as well as increased inflammation in the walls of the coronary arteries, which leads to a greater risk of heart attack."


Relaxed
"If you're a Type B, you roll with the punches. You're relaxed, take life a day a time, and handle stress without cracking. That translates to a higher quality of life and lower likelihood of heart disease—less anxiety strengthens the immune system. The more we chill, the better off we are, says Miller: "You don't want to get locked into a stressful, tense state of mind." Over the long term, he adds, relaxing and managing stress effectively will lengthen your life, help your heart and gastrointestinal system, and just make you feel better overall."

 It made me think how I view my perspective on how to choose to live my life now. Even though your "born" with your personality, I still think there comes a certain point in your life where YOU get to choose what path you'd like to take.  I also think some of the part is the people influencing you. So do other people make up your personalities? Is it truly your choice? But you have to remember sometimes that you really do influence yourself. Theres so many difficult decisions a person has to make at some point during his/her lifetime. It's the simple things that make up your life. Now it's your choice. What will you do?

The Land of the Intelligently Lost

When I first read the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr, something really clicked in my head. So much of this article reflects on the current controversy about technology. Does all of the "easy access" to the world-wide internet really outweigh all the consequences? The one thing I noticed most about this piece that I would like to emphasize was that if we're reading more than we ever did. How are we becoming more "stupid"? We have so much knowledge in the palm of are hands, shouldn't we be the smartest era?  This made me truly analyze it to a further matter to where I had a hard time answering this myself. When students study or do homework, when the going gets tough, what do we do? Look it up on the internet. But when we're reading text are we truly and initially analyzing every piece to where we actually memorize it? The answer to this question is, no. Like in the article I think a majority of people partake in a different kind of learning when they're reading the millions of texts a day. Or reading Facebook pages, it's not exactly a learning process. A lot of students today really don't have a deep thought process on how to actually think for themselves. That's what worries me the most. If we just let machines learn everything for us, at the end of the day what will happen to you and your future?

Just Keep Dreaming...

Have you ever wondered why you dream, and how they can affect you? Dreams are actually an essential tool to your brain. According to http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/heres-why-we-dream_100396077.html “One theory is that it’s a way of allowing your brain to recover and consolidate all the memories and activities of the previous day, like filing time,” So what's so important that we have to remember? What happens to the other things that gets lost in our mind forever? This made me ponder for answers and reasoning. Our dreams have so much meaning within them. It's random elements that make them so intriguing. Do they reflect the bits and pieces of the day, or do they have a deeper meaning?

 

According to the Dream Moodsonline Dream Dictionary climbing a ladder means achieving a lofty goal or higher status, and a butterfly means transformation. Cutting your hair signifies that you may be changing your thinking, and seeing an old man means wisdom. Although some dreams seem to be universal within and even sometimes across cultures, most everyday dreams seem to have more to do with an individual's mental debris than with inspiration or telling the future. So, in order to know what your dreams mean, you should reflect on them yourself. Our dreams can affect us in so many ways.  Its up to you to decide what you will make of it.

Changing the World One Step at a Time...

After viewing the video "A vision of Students Today"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o  it really changed my perspective on the education system today. So much of technology has influenced our lives. I think some people from around thirty or forty years ago still don't grasp the understanding of students today. Things have changed. "Some say technology can save us" but could it destroy us too?  Today's classrooms, I truly think a lot of students don't have a voice in their classroom. They are consumed with cell phones, laptops, or even i-pods. Teachers will give you an assignment, you do it, and turn it in. Is that it? What is actually the percentage of students who actually take away from the assignment? What's the chance that they will apply it to their own lives and change the world? Pretty high standards I say so myself, but I think every student should think about. The world is in our hands now.  Theres such a big difference we can make. If we just set our minds to it, we can do anything.