wk2 Activities Blog Post in response to Karl Peterson - Post 3

This post is in response to Karl Peterson's week 2 response to reading blog post. My response will be followed by Karl's complete post.


Karl.

I think you summed up the work we did during Kathy Craven's Filmmaking class in a nutshell. The Tandem Mice crew worked really hard to think outside the box to come up with a plan that we were all happy with and would work in the parameters set before us.

The same can be said for myself during Dr. Repp's Music Theory course. Of the courses we have taken over the last 10 1/2 months that is the one class that I've had the most difficulty with, as it is the one area that is not my strong suit. I'm glad to say though that some of the things that I learned during MTA I'm still using now during EMDT and in my professional life at school.


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EMDT Karl

The Art of Possibility (or should it be the Art of Perspective?)

I have noticed on a reoccurring basis, throughout these last 10 ½ months that I have been in the EMDT program, a reoccurring theme. That theme has been the importance of looking at things from a different perspective. After reading the first four chapters of “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life” by R. Zander & B. Zander (2000), that is the major theme that I walked away from the reading with. In fact I am a hard time looking at this book in any other light than that. That isn’t a bad thing, this I am certain of. As I have gone through course after course, and run into countless challenges, I have always had something occur that has forced me to take a step back and reevaluate the situation from a different perspective. Every single time this has happened, I have managed to find a way to work through or around the issue as a result. The four chapters of this book have only served to open my eyes to new ways or ideas on how to do this more frequently in my everyday life. I really like the ideas of “give an A” and “game of ‘contribution’”. I think these are fantastic ideas. My hope is that if I am able to implement some of these ideas into my life, I can reduce much of the stress that exists in my life and to try to view more things in life, thusly opening up more possibilities as a result.

Thanks for reading,

Karl Peterson