My abilities for this day (a class assignment)
Insight - I struggled with my own meaning or feeling for this one but I suppose it's when I have factual knowledge and previous emotional experience for something someone is talking or learning about. In the morning class we were discussing the stereotypes of the communities we will be working with and how the media uses fear to perpetuate these stories. I commented on how I thought that this happened because someone was benefitting from this fear because it deterred most people from getting involved and helping this communities turn around or invest in a business etc. I felt insightful when the professor said that my comment was interesting.
Intuition - For me intuition is when you approach something relatively unknown but you make a great educated guess as to what to do, react or think about it and successfully so. This is a really small example but also in the morning class I had the intuition after about 10 minutes that I needed to stop taking notes and just voice record the class and that other people would want to have access to that and sure enough I heard many people after class say they wish they recorded it because there was a lot of fast dialogue and so I put it up on google drive when I got home.
Imagination - Thinking if something that doesn't exist or doesn't exist yet. I have an active imagination pretty much constantly. Today I was imagining, throughout the day, plans with my friend over the weekend who I haven't seen for a while since he lives in San Francisco. Instead of just talking to myself about where I thought we'd go to dinner I imagined actually sitting down at the restaurant I had in mind and our facial expressions as we caught up.
Curiosity - I was very curious today. It's a kind of drive and excitement about wanting to learn something. I was really curious about todays new classes. I was excited to meet my new professors and dive into the new content. I actively research random things all the time so it was nice not having a textbook about it.
Empathy - Feeling how another person is feeling or perceived to be feeling due to shared or similar experiences that illicit these feelings. I have a lot of empathy all the time for people, animals and stories but today I was consoling a friend who was upset. Through witnessing her tone of voice and eyes and pauses in her story I could really feel the struggle she was going through and I felt upset too but kept my feelings in check because she needed support.
Intuition - For me intuition is when you approach something relatively unknown but you make a great educated guess as to what to do, react or think about it and successfully so. This is a really small example but also in the morning class I had the intuition after about 10 minutes that I needed to stop taking notes and just voice record the class and that other people would want to have access to that and sure enough I heard many people after class say they wish they recorded it because there was a lot of fast dialogue and so I put it up on google drive when I got home.
Imagination - Thinking if something that doesn't exist or doesn't exist yet. I have an active imagination pretty much constantly. Today I was imagining, throughout the day, plans with my friend over the weekend who I haven't seen for a while since he lives in San Francisco. Instead of just talking to myself about where I thought we'd go to dinner I imagined actually sitting down at the restaurant I had in mind and our facial expressions as we caught up.
Curiosity - I was very curious today. It's a kind of drive and excitement about wanting to learn something. I was really curious about todays new classes. I was excited to meet my new professors and dive into the new content. I actively research random things all the time so it was nice not having a textbook about it.
Empathy - Feeling how another person is feeling or perceived to be feeling due to shared or similar experiences that illicit these feelings. I have a lot of empathy all the time for people, animals and stories but today I was consoling a friend who was upset. Through witnessing her tone of voice and eyes and pauses in her story I could really feel the struggle she was going through and I felt upset too but kept my feelings in check because she needed support.