RS 3 My Learning Style

The results of Mason Powers's learning inventory are:

Visual/Nonverbal 34 Visual/Verbal 24 Auditory 32 Kinesthetic 32

Your primary learning style is:

The Visual/ Nonverbal Learning Style

Me as a child

You learn best when information is presented visually and in a picture or design format. In a classroom setting, you benefit from instructors who use visual aids such as film, video, maps and charts. You benefit from information obtained from the pictures and diagrams in textbooks. You tend to like to work in a quiet room and may not like to work in study groups. When trying to remember something, you can often visualize a picture of it in your mind. You may have an artistic side that enjoys activities having to do with visual art and design.

RS2 Katy Perry #Losing?

Katy Perry #Losing?

               

Is the music industry falling apart? Why there aren’t boat loads of money coming into these singers? I believe it can be blamed on copywriting. There are numerous websites and music downloaders where you can download music illegally. As a matter of fact there are 230 million illegal downloads per day. If you add up the numbers these musicians are losing out on millions of dollars annually.

Katy Perry can be considered one of the most successful singers since Michael Jackson. She is the first person to have more than five number one hits on a single album. It is apparent that the music industry is at an all-time low when she is not making the same amount as Michael Jackson. People said Michael was “bathing in champagne” and living a life of a rock star. Katy Perry on the other hand is still living wealthy but not comparable to such successful musicians of the past. Society is not only robbing these singers of millions they are diminishing the music industry as a whole.

Katy Perry is one of thousands musicians that are losing out on profit from this economic catastrophe.  The internet piracy has full effect on Katy which is the main problem in the music and movie industry. She is very well aware of what is going on as well as the US Government. There is a threat now that the internet is going to be shut down for four months to reconstruct copyrighting saving the music and movie industry. It is complete bullshit that it has come this far to the point we must temporary ban the most reliable resource of our decade, the internet. For every song purchased Katy Perry’s record label makes $.25 and she is making a minimum off that. The record labels are not profiting off advertisements or apparel either.

I feel as if these figures are being robbed of their talent. They compose the music that keeps us going, and are not getting what they have earned in return. The industry is economically unstable and an alternative solution is necessary. If you have any feedback I am open to your opinion about Katy Perry and the music industries dilemma.

RS1 How to be a Genius?

                If I were to ask myself how to be a genius I would not know where to start. I believed that you were born a genius, and it was embedded within ones genes to be one. Knowing that you can become one has changed my perception of dedication, work, and necessities of life. The point being, I am not a very motivated person because I hold talents such as athleticism and intelligence but I do not use them to their full potential.

                David Dobbs, “How to be a Genius” was an informing excerpt to read for one that is looking to master in a field, or to push them self to fulfill their true talent and put it to good use. Dobbs stated in the article, “A genius is 1 percent inspiration, 29 percent good instruction and encouragement, and 70 percent perspiration… Geniuses are made, not born” (Dobbs 1). Dobbs hit the nail on the head with his perception of what it takes to evolve into a genius because when you have talent you can be too overwhelmed with it and fade away from it. Encouragement is a key component to the mastery because the harder you are motivated to work the more you get out of it and you become more engaged.

I can reflect upon this because I was a gifted wrestler as a kid, and when I hit high school I was burnt out. I was no longer interested in the sport because there was not much competition, until a world champion wrestler and coach from trinity encouraged me to continue my wrestling career. He showed me moves I never heard of and pushed me beyond my comfort zone which paid off in the long run when I became ranked in the nation as a high school wrestler. This can be connected with the 10 year rule Dobb’s has faith in as well as I do. He believes that if you work at your task at hand for 10 years or more you will become a master if you put in the hours and attention.

In addition, those who are gifted with knowledge and high IQ’s are not always geniuses. It was revealed when they did a study on an elementary school which accepted IQ’s from 115+ (less than 1% of society). The outcome of the experiment was that these kids may be gifted with intelligence but they do not have the strive towards excellence. This is also apparent with college applicants and the SATs. It is an evaluation that is inaccurate because someone can be a bad test taker with good grades, vise versa.  This is just like how an IQ test is inaccurate because I feel that some of the most successful and smartest people do not have an IQ of 130, they are normal individuals that are just masters in their field.

All in all, I thought this article was a great read and would recommend it to anyone that believes they are Mr. Smartypants or have no motivation. After reading this I feel enlightened with a new approach to life being dedicated, putting my time and work in as well as knowing in the back of my head if I do it right one day I can be in the 1% who is a genius.