Reflection on Learning in the Course: Blog Post #4

  It has been a long 11 weeks of learning about communication skills, and I am glad to say that I have learnt a lot in this period of time. I had two objectives at the start of this course, to accept my surrounding's views, and also to improve my presentation skills.

  As I have stated in my first post, coming to an understanding with other's perception forces me to put on ideals of my own onto him/her. As it is inbuilt within me, I absolutely despise being told what to do, or that I have to follow someone's else because they think it is easier. I believe everyone has their own way of doing things. Unfortunately, when it comes to ideas and worldviews, I do force some of mine onto others. During this course, I did pick up something brilliant. I read an article given by my lecturer about 'perceiving others', in this article it states that understanding others will lead to a rapid discovery of truth. I put some thought into it, and realized that I do learn a lot of ideas, truth, and how people view different situations, but this is only when I take down the barrier. The barrier that 'your views are always right', More said from Carl Rogers, the article that I was reading about, he stated that truth is actually approached when defenses are dropped. It was an eye opener to read it, it was only then, I realized I did not have to force anyone's truth, nor follow his truth, but taking down the barrier and accepting that he has his own truths makes myself learn more, and understand the world for the better.

  This is not all, through digging and trying my best to make a good grade from the presentation, I learn many tactics about presenting, especially as the conclusion specialist. I learn that if an audience is able to question themselves, and bring something back with them, the conclusion was powerful. And although I had glossophobia, a powerful speech comes from yourselves, believing in what you need to deliver. I would be glad to say that this is not the end for me, I will have a lot more to give myself, a lot more presentations to give in the near future, and along the way, I will continue researching on different ways to excel myself in communicating to an audience.

Thank you for everything SEM1902 Friday class, but I learn a lot about you guys as well. Hope all of you read this can comment. >.<


Best Regards,

Benjamin Lu     signing off