IACT 1 Final: Michael Saylor

Hello, I'm Michael Saylor, and this is my final presentation

for I Act One.

I think it's essential to start with my big goal

for the semester.

My big goal was to recognize my wants and needs

and start to fulfill them.

I remember wondering how in the heck am I gonna

be able to accomplish this task?

I like to imagine that in the beginning of the

semester, I was handled, handed this puzzle with its hundreds

of pieces and told Just go.

However, as anyone who has ever completed a puzzle will

tell you once you get the first few pieces down,

the rest appear more obvious.

I think when understanding how I got to complete this

assignment, it's easier to start with the conclusion the action

plan and work my way backwards.

My action plan is a simple Siris of steps, which

I am hoping to take to find fulfillment.

The first part of this process is to interact with

as many different people as I can and allow them

to introduce me to things which they enjoy participating them.

Not only will this give me more social interaction, but

it will also allow me to use these friends as

a catalyst to discovery the areas of activity that they

think is totally normal in their lives could be something

I didn't realize I was missing in mine.

However, I must make sure that I approach each venture

with an open mind and for my final and probably

most important step.

I need to make an intentional effort to have an

evaluation of the activity before I share it with others

I might find.

I enjoy doing things that don't really fit in with

what other people think is cool.

So I need to internalize my own decisions so I

do not let others influence my opinion.

One of the most important portions of this word came

from the identification of patterns in this class.

Throughout much of my time, I had certain patterns that

manifested through my activities in this class.

Many of these patterns were pointed out to me near

the end of my time.

During the pattern.

Target activity in this appear from my class, pointed out

multiple phrases and words that repeated themselves throughout.

Some of these phrases were social new fulfillment, active and

open mindedness.

Since these patterns were fundamental to my work.

It is obvious on a conscious or subconscious level that

I realized these ideas would be important in my final

design. After this, phrases that were instrumental in the action

plan were added.

Each of these pattern words are represented in the steps

of my action plan.

If pattern identification was the most influential portion of this

class, managing AB ambiguity be would be right behind it.

From me and this portion, the class we discussed our

fears, strengths, what ifs and start doing.

Through this vulnerability and reflection, I realized I was afraid

of the unknown, worried about wasting time and wanting to

be a member of the group.

We then discussed how my strengths lie in my social

ability and my willingness to try new and diverse areas

of interest.

We then developed.

What if statements to challenge ourselves and mine was what

if I always had to be honest with myself?

This idea evolved into my start doing which I was

going to start being honest with myself before I let

other people influence my decisions, you will notice that this

was directly incorporated into my action plan as well.

All this work was based on my letter of design

proving ground in my one hour challenged, I noticed to

my reflection, that much of this work tended to be

work that followed patterns in the proving ground.

I want analyze the work that I had completed.

Up until that point of the semester, I was able

to organize my thoughts and to begin to build on

the foundational knowledge that I had gathered from the convergent

and divergent portion of the class and one hour design

challenge. In this challenge, we were tasked with working with

our peers Thio Challenge.

They're thinking via convergent and divergent thought this lead us

to creating prototypes one another in order to try and

encourage us to grow.

My partner gave me the prototype of airpods.

These earbuds connect to other devices and like Airpods to

grow, I would have to connect to others and create

meaningful connections in order to find fulfillment.

This is integrated into the social aspect of my action

plan and the first activity that we did in this

class. We completed a mind map and this was a

mind map of our convert gin and divergent thought.

Through this activity, I was able to explore the many

different avenues, which I thought I might need to take

to find film int.

Many of these ideas, especially regarding new activities and social

ability manifested, is the base of much of my work

in this class, and this leads us back to my

big goal, which once again was wanting to understand my

wants and needs and meeting them.

As you can see, this class led me on a

journey as I tried to explore how best to complete

this challenge, and I would argue that I am quite

successful using this process that I learned in this class.

I'm now able to apply this to a wide array

of problems by understanding convergent, divergent thought.

I'll be able to generate mass amounts of ideas on

the topic, and then I can use editor thinking to

slowly build on these ideas, setting side ones that don't

make complete sense until later and using other thoughts to

synthesize a final design.

Once I have a plan, I can challenge myself to

expand on this by questioning myself with skills learned and

managing ambiguity.

And throughout my work, I can go and look for

patterns and make sure those air represented in the final

product thank you so much for listening

IACT 1 Final: Michael Saylor

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