Weekly Blog 7
Emotional Intelligence is an important factor in Self-Regulation. Knowing what your triggers and what causes you to feel a certain way can help you better regulate yourself. Especially being that to self-regulate you must know and be honest with yourself. And part of knowing yourself is knowing your emotions and what causes them.
To me Emotional Intelligence is important and provides reason to self-reflect and get to know yourself beyond your physical and mental state. Often, we neglect our emotions and focus on other aspects of ourselves forgetting that we need to be in a good emotional state to prosper mentally and physically. Which is why Emotional Intelligence is such a great tool to possess and use in our day to day lives.
I display and improve my emotional intelligence by continuously reflecting on my actions, reactions and triggers throughout my day, week or month depending of what I am going through at the time.
Weekly Blog 6
When watching Jean Kilbourne’s TED talk, I was amazed by all the ads she pointed out and how we subconsciously take all these things in. From the sexualization of women to the dehumanizing us and our features. These ads are so contradicting that it is almost funny in one ad you are supposed to have big breast and in another small breast are better. You are supposed to have a big butt but not too big because that is against the status quo. Also, people promote natural bodies but want features that can only be achieved with surgery.
Weekly Blog 2
I believe myself to be to be a determine yet, self-aware student. I am the type of student that will give all I can but, I will not push myself beyond my limits so that I do not burnout. I understand the toll that school takes on you mentally, physically and emotionally. I know that I have a lot to offer academically but, I will not allow myself to be worn out beyond my limits and to the capacity of not being able to perform at my best. I feel that in order for me to increase my confidence level academically I need to find a motivating force that would remind me why I decided to start school in the first place. My self-efficacy score was a 3.2