Week 1

In the first chapter I read over and skimmed through a couple times, I enjoyed the content of the text.  The first chapter is a bit of a preview to live why WHY's of a persons course of life to the impact of diversity in the development of life.  While heading in the profession of Education I think that it is very important to be informed on all of these topics overall, there is so much to expand on just a couple of these two major topics.  While reading I read information around emotion, life milestones, views of childhood and adulthood, aging, most important the psychology behind lifespan development.  A couple words of week one's reading that seemed to stick with me was the random quotes spread out throughout the chapter, motivational life quotes to inspire a reader or to simply keep thumb of wise words. "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." -Lewis Carroll found on the bottom of page 6, in LIFE SMART.  Another one that reflected off of my life thus far was "development reflects this underlying assumption of change".  (Life Smart, Fiore) This stuck with me because of the word assumption.. we mental think of change, but the question is 'are we really doing it?, change that is'.  Assumption is key to this line of change and development in movement of aging.

This quote brings me to connect with the short video watched; Mobius Strip by Parker J. Palmer.  The analysis of this small strip of paper that was put into thought of ones onstage life and backstage life.  I can relate from a point and time while in college while considering the thought of what others thought of me.  As a year or so went on through college I noticed my changes developing through my mind were changing.  After watching this video I know that my backstage life transformed into my onstage life because I began to be comfortable with myself.  Even though you are transforming and developing new feedback you get from your personal thoughts daily.  Your backstage life is who I believe you truly are.

I completely agree that it is hard to merge the inner and outer self of one.  As shown in the video it is very easy to bend the strip into a circle and combine both once your mind is flexible enough to do so.  I never thought about our thoughts in a flexible strip form, after watching this explains more clear to me how our cycle of comfort and thoughts start.  This video is also a new interesting way to teach young or adult students a new way to merge the inner self(who you know you really are inside) and the outer self(who you appear to others) it is always nice to have something visual while learning something new.