Learning Challenge: Reading and watching!

Reading and watching/listening. If you are watching a movie on TV, you probably have the option to turn on English subtitles. Turn on the subtitles and see how that mix of listening and reading works for you. How is the experience different when you are both hearing and seeing the words? Do you like watching the captions turned on, or do you not like it? If you are watching together with someone else, compare your experiences. Do they have the same reaction that you do?
For this week, I want to do the "Learning by HEART" challenge for reading!

So whenever I watch a TV show or movie, if I have the option to, I always turn on the subtitles. A large part of my ability to comprehend others comes from me reading their lips. It's not that my ears are particularly bad, but sometimes, I cannot distinguish words well if I am not looking at the person directly. By both being able to hear and see the words, I can understand what is going on much better. A few people that I have met actually do not like because they say it distracts them from the actual movie since the words keep scrolling or changing. For myself, since I can read pretty quickly, it doesn't bother me much since it takes less than half a second for me to read the sentence and continue watching the scene.

"Book with pages folded into a heart."

Source: Treehugger.

Learning Challenge: Things That Matter vs. Things You Can Control

"Focus on the things that matter and the things that you can control." 

Source: Learning by Heart.

I agree with this image. I've been through a lot of self-reflection and self-growth during my time in college and I've come to realize quite a few things. This is one of the more important lessons I've come to learn. Life is unexpected and it can throw so many different obstacles in your way at every turn. There are so many people in the world who suffer from depression or other mental illnesses because they think too hard about controlling things that do not really matter or things that they have no ability to change. As long as you know that there are some things you can't really change in life, then you can relax and let life take its course without worrying about something that happened or something that is going to happen eventually. That way, you can live in the moment and just be content where you are without all the stress.

Learning Challenge: The Lotus

The quote for this happiness meme is from a Buddhist proverb, but I could not find who actually said it. I created this image from AutoMotivator.

Learning Challenge: Happiness Jar Post

In order to develop my own happiness, I want to make my own "happiness jar" in blog form. For each day of the week, I would like to add one thing that has made me happy.

Feb. 8, 2017 Day 1: I am on an event committee for my sorority and today we had a meeting to plan for an event coming up in March. After the meeting had ended, all the members of the committee willingly stayed behind to have a really nice conversation and bond for an extra hour. I really liked it because I'm naturally a homebody and reluctant to go out unless I really have to, so it was nice to just chitchat about everything and nothing for a while. This sounds really sad, like I'm a hermit or something, but I'm really not... well not that much... I just enjoy little things like that.

Feb. 9, 2017 Day 2: I slept in an extra 1.5 hours this morning!

Happiness Jar directions image. 

Source: Learning by HEART.

Learning Challenge: Trying the Pomodoro Technique

This week, I tried the Pomodoro technique to help me focus better and practice better time management. I had never heard of the Pomodoro technique before and I was interested to learn about it. I did the Pomodoro last week to test it and I found that it helped me stay on track. I hope to continue this strategy in my other classes! As of right now, I can only apply this to my classes, but I hope to find other ways to use it.

Here is the technique for those of you who are interested!

Pomodoro Technique. 

Source: Learning by Heart.