be your own detective- Exploring
Exploring Thoughts
Instructions: choose three questions from the list of questions below to brainstorm, jot, illustrate, outline, journal.
What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?
Don’t Judge a book by its cover
Never give up when things get hard
Losing yourself is apart of finding yourself
Success doesn’t happen overnight
It’s okay to be scared
Sometimes it’s okay
It’s okay to take a break from something and come back to it later
Live your life to the fullest
Goals are supposed to be scary
If you could talk to a younger version of yourself, what would you say?
Think things through
Try not to stress so easily
Learn to take criticism
Don’t be afraid to take risks
Don't settle for less
Believe in yourself at all time
Don’t panic
What are you proudest of?
Staying in school
My drive for anything I do
Having a great hustler mindset
Giving good advice
Exploring Words
Instruction: In your exploration, think about what these words mean, how we see them, when we see them, what impact they have, what role or significance they might have, and how they might connect on personal levels.
Explore Talking To Others
Introductions: 3 big ideas from the video, 2 questions you still have about the topic and 1 brainstormed thought you have that can push your thinking forward.
Ideas
3. When someone asks in a moment of madness if “I’m happy” it's hard for me to explain how I feel because I don’t want it to seem like I'm not happy with my life but that I'm just unhappy in that moment. This video showed me how to better explain myself by saying that “yes I'm happy but right now”, I feel no joy. I learned that “Happiness measures how good we feel over time and Joy is about feeling good in the moments“
2. I realized that Joy is overlooked so much because people confuse it as being the same thing as happiness. Joy is that feeling when you are urged with a positive emotion in the moment. This is so interesting to find out because so many times I have felt joyous but described it as being happy.
1. Fireworks are a great example of something that brings joy because when you see fireworks they can make you feel excited and positive in the exact moment when you see them.
1. I found it to be crazy how people tend to associate joy with age. I feel that there is no age limit on joy. I also believe people are childish. I think this is because of the stereotypically view that some people have of older people as being mean and grumpy all the time.
Questions
2. Why do people try to associate Joy with age? Are there any science proven facts that connect aging with joy or happiness?
1. Is there a way to create more Joy?
Thought
1. As I was listening to the video I started to wonder if color was connected to joy. The video later explained how some data shows that people who work around color are more friendly and how students feel more safe in colorful schools. This made me wonder if organization can play a role in Joy because I know when I walk into a neat and clean space I sometimes feel an urge of Joy.