Final Discussion

For the final discussion please tell me what was the most inspiring thing you read this semester – what author or lecture or writing moved you the most and why?  Tell me about your experience in the class – was a positive one?  what could have been better?  Dive in!

As educated minds, you have a responsibility to share your knowledge with others and also gain the humility to know that none of us know everything there is to know.  A mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open.

It is easy to be cynical; it often seems cooler to jump to the negative.  Optimism should never be confused with naivete.  It takes work to always look at the half-filled glass as opposed to the half-empty one, but if all reality is subjective what other way is there? 

And lastly – Remember: everything you will ever need in life you already have.

A man walks down the street and come upon a beggar who asks the man for money.  The man notices the beggar is sitting on a trunk.  “What is in the trunk?” asks the man.  “Don’t know, I been sitting here for years and I never looked inside.”  “Why don’t you?”  The beggar opens the trunk and sees it is filled with gold.

A construction worker complains everyday when he opens his lunch bucket.  “Not bologna again, I hate bologna!”  One day his co-worker says to him, “Why don’t you ask your wife to make you something different?  And he says, “Oh, I’m not married, I make my own lunch.”