Monday, September 27, 2010

Optimism and Reality

After reading chapter 3 "Optimism and Reality", I notice that I've changed after enter university.

I'm used to be a optimistic person like McCarthy, think I can endure and overcome the situation. Also, I think of the reality ans search the solution. But I know now I'm not simply such a optimistic person, or even I can say now I'm pessimist. After reading this chapter I found that this change happened maybe because of the different situation. I used to be optimistic in the situation that I fight only by myself like Japanese entrance examination, or in the football club. I was just a participant. But now I'm trying to become a leader who should, according to Perkins, spread the optimism and make the atmosphere good. From of old, I'm so pessimistic when I think of the others surrounding.

Then, my answer to Q.1 is that I basically say to myself optimistic when the problem is only related to me. But I say to myself pessimistic when it comes to the problem related not only to me but to others. If the problem is only the matter of myself, I can become optimistic like "It goes well, maybe.", and think of reality. But if there are other people included in the problem, I cannot easily be optimist.

The answer to Q.2 is... I can't come up with so easily. I think of that through the class, but I think maybe I can trust others!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Vision and Quick Victories

Long term vision

For me, is that I want to become a person who can think of others in any scenes, like business scene or private scene with colleague, friends, or families. I don't sure this vision is appropriate to take the Dynamic You class, but anyway, this is what I mean to be.

In addition, now I'm Jr. band concert master of ICU Modern Music Society, and I'm going to be the Reg. concert master. I think so-called "leaders" should think of all members in community. I think the leaders should have both reality eye and idealistic eye. They should manage the risk toward their community, and seek their ideal existence style of community. Also, to achieve this aim,I think leaders should cooperate with some other "sub-leader"members in their community. I don't want to use the phrase "use people", but actually it is hard for one person to grasp all member's now-going situation and their thinking.

Short term goal

To achieve this long term vision, what I can do now is simply talk to members as many as possible. before the number of people I think of become large, I should learn how members think of something like music, members their life and so on. By doing this, maybe we can trust each other, and eventually some of them will be the "sub-leaders" I think. And of course, as mentioned in Leading at the Edge, I must show myself practice hard. This is fundamental part of leaders that they works hard. Moreover, they should work harder than others, ideally.