Conor H Humanities finally

Metacognition: Brain Project
The project that was assigned to me was a brain project for psychology class. For this project, we are required to find different pictures or drawings that would represent the functions for each side of the brain. The way i went about completing this task, was I mapped out in bullets all of the functions of each side of the brain. Doing this made it a lot easier to pick and choose which one I would like to use. Also, it served as a checklist for what I am putting in the project. I see this form of thinking very effective because I have everything I need in one list that is easy to look over. Something that I could have changed is that I could have been more specific in defining the functions. Being more specific could make me think a bit more deeply and be more clever in my symbolism of these functions. I was a little surprised at how much easier this made my project because I could just look at the list and pick a picture to depict the action. I like this style of preparing because it is very organized and easy to understand even for someone other than myself. Something that could be improved upon is how deep I think about a certain subject. If I think deeper about a subject I tend to understand it more. Knowledge comes from understanding, not knowing.Conor Hart

Connection: Collaboration then and now
In "The Televisionary," one of the themes that is apparent throughout is; collaboration is more successful than induvidualism. In this essay, Philo Farnsworth is depicted as the epitome of a Romantic Idealist. This means that he believes that you can succeed on your own. Farnsworth is proven wrong when he is defeated in the race to create the first television by the RCA Corporation. He believed, "Of you had the vision and you made the vision work, then the invetion was yours." This wasn't true because the idea of the television did not belong to one person, in fact two others had the idea and failed to create the mechanical television along with the RCA corporation, which had an entire crew of inventors to work on it. This shows that visionaries cannot succeed without the inventor or the creative mind. This is very true in society and politics today. Every step in a career of a successful politician is made with collaboration. The politician is really the visionary and his crew are the inventors. When a politician runs for a position he or she usually follows what they are told by their campaign managers and staff. This is because their managers are experts in different political topics. The RCA prevailed over Philo because they employed a crew of inventors that worked together to create and finalize the idea of the television. If Philo would have accepted the invitation to join the team at RCA his family would still be living off his fortune today and he would not have died a depressed, unaccomplished man. ""No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.""--H.E. Luccock

Carry It Forward: Creative personality
Before we read "The Creative Personality" I had a completely different idea of what creativity is or how it can be defined. Once I really thought about it I realized that there are millions of different forms of creativity. The statement, "most creative people are very passionate about their work, yet they are extremly objective about it as well," revealed a new way to look at how people are creative. The statement besically means that a creative person strives to do what they love or are interested in. When they do something that they like to do they are actually their biggest critic. The want to do it right if not they want to improve upon what they have completed. I would like to take this to heart and try to be objective of my work. By doing so I would open my mind to new ideas and perspectives unseen before. Perfection comes with trial and error. Therefore, I feel the need to correct or improve any of the work that I have completed. I think that this will make me a better student as well as better person overall by perfecting my actions. It is truely creative to fix work or ideas that you have done before.