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I just got back my marks for the individual letter writing for bizcomm. I got the lowest marks in class. But I've already done my best, I did research on both content and format. Unfortunately my writing was deemed to be too negative and took too many words from the question (but no one told us we were not supposed to...). Sometimes some things comes to others so naturally but not to me...
From young, I was taught to be effective in everything I do. I thought that was an advantage. Now I know that it may actually be harmful. Positivity is more welcome than conciseness and quickness. People would rather hear what they want to hear even if its covered by partial lies. It would be hard for me to change, i am so used to avoiding things that are excessive. Plus, it takes so much more time to sugar coat everything. It will take me some time to learn this skill, I think.
Many (not all) people in biz sch seems to like talking about nothing. And by that I don't even mean that the conversation is unconstructive. They tease each other like: "A, idiot!" "Why you call me idiot!" "Cos you are idiotic. Not meh" And so on. I don't like hanging around such people but sometimes I have to, because people will say that I am not sociable otherwise, and it makes my work a lot harder. But I also can't bring myself to speak in that way, which makes them think that I am very dao/moody.
Sometimes there are conflicts when I am working on a project, and usually its because I have opinions. I've learnt that those who can avoid conflicts are usually those who goes with the flow, or give up on their suggestions easily as soon as they sense disagreements. I didn't, but I practice this sometimes now. Sometimes their opinions are proven wrong, but at least we go down as a team, rather than me pushing for the right thing and getting the worse of it.
The people I met from Arts are a lot nicer. But we don't really have much time together so we don't have many common topics... Recently there are many cases of me wanting to talk and having people to talk to, but nothing to talk about. Am I getting boring? Haha. I don't really like silences.
From young, I was taught to be effective in everything I do. I thought that was an advantage. Now I know that it may actually be harmful. Positivity is more welcome than conciseness and quickness. People would rather hear what they want to hear even if its covered by partial lies. It would be hard for me to change, i am so used to avoiding things that are excessive. Plus, it takes so much more time to sugar coat everything. It will take me some time to learn this skill, I think.
Many (not all) people in biz sch seems to like talking about nothing. And by that I don't even mean that the conversation is unconstructive. They tease each other like: "A, idiot!" "Why you call me idiot!" "Cos you are idiotic. Not meh" And so on. I don't like hanging around such people but sometimes I have to, because people will say that I am not sociable otherwise, and it makes my work a lot harder. But I also can't bring myself to speak in that way, which makes them think that I am very dao/moody.
Sometimes there are conflicts when I am working on a project, and usually its because I have opinions. I've learnt that those who can avoid conflicts are usually those who goes with the flow, or give up on their suggestions easily as soon as they sense disagreements. I didn't, but I practice this sometimes now. Sometimes their opinions are proven wrong, but at least we go down as a team, rather than me pushing for the right thing and getting the worse of it.
The people I met from Arts are a lot nicer. But we don't really have much time together so we don't have many common topics... Recently there are many cases of me wanting to talk and having people to talk to, but nothing to talk about. Am I getting boring? Haha. I don't really like silences.