This week you will make your tenth journal entry/blog post. Reflect upon the things that you are learning and experiencing so far in this course. What are you looking forward to learning and experiencing? What did you learn from the readings and videos this week?
This week I worked hard on my Entrepreneur Interview paper. I re-listened to the interview a few times really soaking it all in. I had noted my impressions and went back over those notes seeing if my impressions had changed from when I first heard Jo's comments to now. First impressions remained the same. That in and of itself was interesting to me.
I particularly enjoyed the short video "License to Pursue Dreams" by Marissa Mayer at Google. She said that passion and momentum build when skilled employees have access to great tools and the time to stretch them in new directions. My ears perked up a bit with this one. Jo Day, my entrepreneur interviewee, and her husband Kevin created their company out of frustration with the tools made available to them at their jobs. This goes hand in hand with "necessity is the mother of invention." Our lives are made better because of great tools. As humans, we gauge the animal kingdom's intelligence in part based on a species' use of tools. As God's crowning creation, we can be better too with the creation and use of better tools. I loved what Ms. Mayer added though, that the time to stretch ourselves in new directions is critical too.
Another lovely bit I learned this week in the videos was from Acton Hero Kathy Huber. When asked about thinking outside of the box, she said she always liked to play with problems. I loved that she used the word "play." Do we allow our children enough time to play and to figure out their own problems? Do we allow them to struggle enough? Or do we fix everything, make it better, eliminate failure possibilities, refusing to see them as growth, strength, and character builders? I think yes.
My favorite assignment for the week was watching/reading (then) Elder Dallin H. Oaks' talk "The Challenge to Become." He said,
Now is the time for each of us to work toward our personal conversion, toward becoming what our Heavenly Father desires us to become. As we do so, we should remember that our family relationships—even more than our Church callings—are the setting in which the most important part of that development can occur. The conversion we must achieve requires us to be a good husband and father or a good wife and mother. Being a successful Church leader is not enough. Exaltation is an eternal family experience, and it is our mortal family experiences that are best suited to prepare us for it.I LOVE how President Oaks ALWAYS nails a concept. He is a prophet, seer, and revelator indeed. My husband and I discussed this talk quite a bit this week. It helps us to remember that charity is not an act, but a condition or state of being. We must be changed into better creatures--into Christlike creatures--by our actions & choices. And we must know and remember that it is in the family situation where this is most likely to happen. It was wonderful reading this again as 2018 comes to a close and 2019 brings changes in format at church. So many people are focused on only 2 hours of church that they're missing the point. The point is 1 more hour of instruction and practice in the home, the most holy of places on earth next to the temple! What a wonderful time to be alive!
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