Noor T. Grade 12 English

The FranklinCovey's Big Rocks video is a concept about priorities in habit no. 4: “put first things first”, which is  part of Stephen Covey’s book "The 7 habits of highly effective people". In the video a lady was asked to put all the big rocks on the table in a bowl the guy already filled with many small tiny rocks. Her job was to fit them all in, but she struggled with that. The tiny stones represented all the things that fill our lives and gradually accumulate. The bowl representing our life is filled with these little rocks. The big rocks that the lady tries to fit in the bowl ('our life') while the tiny rocks are there, represent things such as: Planning & empowerment; Relationships & family; Employment; Big opportunity; Major projects; Service/community/church. She kept moving the tiny rocks around to be able to squeeze in some of the big rocks and found that she couldn't fit all the rocks. Some rocks remained outside and she had to give up rocks...

Drew Dudley's Ted talk: "Lollipop Moment" discussed the importance of redefining leadership as being lollipop moments, which is a moment when someone does or says something that makes your life better. He goes on about how everyone probably had lollipop moments- whether given to us by others or that we made someone's life better by something we said or did, but the most important thing is to let people know the impact and difference they have made on our lives by these moments. So not only that we should create more and more lollipop moments, but we need to acknowledge them and pay them forward and be thankful for them. He quoted Marian Williams who said, "our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, it is our light and not our darkness that frightens us".  He says that we need to get over this and show our kids the impact we can have on each other's lives by the lollipop moments we create, no...

Chimamanda Adichie talks about the danger of the single story and how we portray what we are exposed to from a single perspective. She talks about how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, especially as children. Single stories can have unintended consequences, as they can suppress certain groups or cultures and form prejudices. Adichie emphasized how media and western books usually tell one story, which makes people make generalize information and make assumptions about certain people, cultures or places.  She gave examples about the single story that people have about Africa, addressing it as a country and making assumptions that people there are not living a civilized life; she put herself in the shoes of a person living in America, never travelled to Africa nor met a person from there and only being exposed to what they are reading about Africa and she understood how they would form these assumptions from that single story.  She gave another example ...