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effective supervisor and manager.

I continued to take seminar after seminar absorbing a day's worth of education and then practicing it with real world applications. Over time I became more confident of my abilities and stronger minded to say what I needed to say to get the job done. After I had taken many of the seminars I found myself in one called Dealing With Difficult People. Throughout this particular one I started to have an epiphany that I knew all the course information already and I had mastered the program. I almost felt like I could teach it along side the person in the front of the room. So I assertively wrote a letter to the company requesting my money back because I didn't learn anything and the seminar I had just spent all day in was a mere compilation of all the others. I received a full refund and a letter thanking me for my feedback and congratulating me on my recognition. This initiated a progression the allowed me to take charge of my life.

This attitude carried forward with me until the time when I was taking my first Woodbury College class of Critical Thinking. I was required to keep a journal to track the progression of my thoughts. At first I thought it was a painful and ridiculous task that had no importance. As time went on my brain remained quenching more knowledge and I was constantly expanding my range of ideas and things that I wanted to learn and know more about. By the end of the class I was amazed that I had filled up half of a journal and the amount of progress I had made just by recording my thought process. The act of writing inspired me and helped me to clarify my ideas. The act of breaking down abstract concepts so that others could understand me helped to clarify my thought process. After finishing the class I was hooked on writing. It has been six months since and I am currently on my fourth journal filling one up about every two months. I record everything and anything that I find fascinating. It is my own personal interest log book containing: dreams, vocabulary, chore lists, deep emotions, free writes, essays, poetry, music lyrics, sketches, theology research, and excerpts from any literature that I read so that I can go back and find my favorite quotes easily.

Knowledge is power and knowing what you want to know is the hard part of the uphill battle that we all face. Information seems infinite and the resources can be overwhelming even on a single topic. But the passion and the desire to sit with some great questions and seek answers has the potential to form a new era of intelligence. Every experience can be a learning experience if we let it. In every conversation a pearl of wisdom is hidden beneath the surface waiting to be summoned. Everyone knows a great deal more than they think they do, and we all know very different things. By acknowledging our personal goals for knowledge and sharing a passion for communicating with each other we can discover more about what we want to know.

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