Writing Assignment #2

Responce to the Expedition Log questions.

Answer 1
As the auther says, I think "self-talk" is quite important when faced with some difficulties because I strongly believe that "to consistently send positive messages that override voices of discouragement and pessimism (Perkins 54)" is efficient. So everytime I face adversity, I say to myself that, "this is the test from your destiny, you can't change or escape from this derstiny and you have to accept it. But if you can get over it, you will be a more attractive and competent. Just do it." I believe that these kind of tough situation is good opportunity to improve ourselves. As Kennedy family says, "when the going gets tough, the tough get going." Let's take some actions before complaining!!

Answer 2
When I went to Pittsburgh with my team mate to play baseball, I was told that I should be more like captain. There were some misunderstanding between my team mate and I (If I talk about this topic, it will takes half an hour). But anyway, I was really shocked because I thought I did my best and my behavior was good for all of members. I talked with them, I cried, then I talked to myself. "My behavior is not incorrect. Just because there are some gaps between their thoughts and mine. What I missed is that I couldn't make myself understood by them correctly. That's the way it goes because we are human being." I felt that communication was really difficult even in this kind of a small comunity. But by admitting this difficulties, I could get over this tough situation. I strongly think that not feeling depressed but swiching feeling or the way you think is a key point.

Answer 3
In my baseball team, sometimes bench warmers look like depressed because they can't play in games. Of courece that is because they don't have enough skills compared to the regular players to play in the game. However, it is also the fact that I couldn't give them any opportunity to show their ability. So the other day I made an opportunity to see their ability and now I tell all the bench warmers that you have a chance today as a pinch hitter before the game even though the game seems to going to be tough. I hope it change their depressing feeling.
But actually I think I can't make them happy, I know that how bitter for not playing in the game because I was a bench warmer. It's just a lip comfort. So I'm sorry but maybe I can't instill optimism in this situation and can't reframe this situation.

Answer 4
I can't come up with the most dificult assignment. But most of my friend are optimist and they cheer me up when I am depressed if I tell them about my worries. The problem is I am not the optimist so it's the end if I gloom. Actually I don't want to talk about my personal anxiety. So I could say that if I open my mind, the OQ around me is high enough so we can success.

Answer 5
I already have learned that escaping from reality only produce regrets when I was a high school student. One thing I think important is to listen to the opinion of others. It seems quite important to think by myself but sometimes we need other point of views. Those people tell me some information that I don't want to accept but need to hear for making the best decision. So I try to open my mind as hard as possible and try not to refuse bad news. I'm always ready to be criticized or confused, but have confident to get over.

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, we have games and I have no weekend so I did this assignment now...sleepy. Sorry Ken, perhaps this is not the answers you expected.

Yasuhito

Writing Assignment #1

Actually it is very hard to think about my future vision. But wherever I work for, I want to be a competent business person.

So my long-term vision is to be a capable person who, if being the top of the organization or a department, can lead others to the right place and make benefit.

And I think that competent person has a higher viewpoint. In my opinion, what ordinary people do is just to follow the superiors' opinions or ideas. However, I guess that competent person can look a present condition or something from two perspectives, one is from that person's own point of view and the other is the viewpoint of some organization itself. What I want to say is to become a capable person, I think I need a subjective view point and an objective view point.

To achieve this goal, I made a short-term goal. As you know now I am the captain of the ICU Baseball Club, and actually I decide every days' training (practice) menu and the starting lineup of the game by myself. This is really a good experience for me but sometimes quite difficult. This is because I have to grasp whose condition is good/bad to decide starting lineups, and what is worse, there are 6 seniors in our team so sometimes I have to say bitter messages to them.

Therefore, I would say that I have an opportunity to improve the two-dimension viewpoint as I mentioned above through my captain experience. By seeing other player's condition and deciding the starting lineups, or discuss seniors, I believe I can improve my objective point of view because nobody follows me if I behave based on only my own subjective opinion.

Now, to make this happen, I would like to do two things. First, I try to practice harder than anybody else in our team and make my message persuasive. I think nobody trust or follow me if my baseball skill is not enough but say that "you are not in good condition and I do not let you go to the ground" or something like that. Word is important, but behavior is sometimes more important. Second,  I try to treat me as another person, that is, I should be a leader of the team but also should be the one of the members of the team. If I am not in good condition, I have to stay at bench. I believe this is another way to make objectivity.

If I would say my short-term goal in one sentence, this is it. To make my leadership realize, get as many "wins" of the game as possible. 

Through this baseball experience, I want to get a higher perspective which other players do not have, and I want to connect this precious opportunity to my long-term vision. Someday I want to be a leader who is followed by every colleague.

P.S.
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Yasuhito