Lesson Catch up

Today I Caught up on Pedro's lesson.

I really enjoyed having a time scale to think about what I have learnt during my practise as it helped getting all the ideas out of my head without feeling stressed.  

 

I found it very interesting reading everyone’s comments about what they had learnt. A lot of these resonated with my own thoughts and I realised that we have a lot it common.

 

The comment that I chose to write about was Bella’s “most authentic you”. This really resonated with me because when I was at college I tried so hard to fit in and be like everyone else. This made me really unhappy for many years and it was only once I stopped trying to be a carbon copy of my classmates that I realised how important individuality is. Being true to who I am has played a crucial part in my career and most of the time I am cast on my personality or uniqueness.

 

I liked the idea of politeness sometimes being counterproductive. I do feel us English tend to be polite even when it puts us at a disadvantage. Having discussed this with my partner who is from a very different background growing up elsewhere, he has a very different approach. I want to delve into this further as I think this could be an interesting talking point. 

 

I also found it interesting when Pedro mentioned sexism within the industry as I think this will be a great topic to untangle further during the course.