TY - JOUR
T1 - Growth opportunities
AU - Barney Smith, Elisa H.
N1 - Discusses the significance of traveling to meet new people, expand your views, and learn about other cultures. Every time you travel and meet new people, e
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - I’m writing this article a couple of days after giving a TEDx talk in Boise, Idaho. It was a great experience. It took much more work than I expected, but I’m very satisfied with the outcome, and the feedback from family and friends who attended has been very positive. Even though I give plenty of talks as a professor, it pushed me to build skills in writing (I wrote out my script) and public speaking that I hadn’t needed before. The style and expectations were different than speaking in a classroom or at a technical conference. As students, you regularly experience being put into new situations. You are asked to use previous knowledge in a different way. (We see students struggle when equations are written with different variables that make the algebra look totally foreign.) Although it can be painful to be in a discomfort zone, it is a good experience because it enables you to grow further.
AB - I’m writing this article a couple of days after giving a TEDx talk in Boise, Idaho. It was a great experience. It took much more work than I expected, but I’m very satisfied with the outcome, and the feedback from family and friends who attended has been very positive. Even though I give plenty of talks as a professor, it pushed me to build skills in writing (I wrote out my script) and public speaking that I hadn’t needed before. The style and expectations were different than speaking in a classroom or at a technical conference. As students, you regularly experience being put into new situations. You are asked to use previous knowledge in a different way. (We see students struggle when equations are written with different variables that make the algebra look totally foreign.) Although it can be painful to be in a discomfort zone, it is a good experience because it enables you to grow further.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MPOT.2019.2913350
U2 - 10.1109/MPOT.2019.2913350
DO - 10.1109/MPOT.2019.2913350
M3 - Article
VL - 38
JO - IEEE Potentials
JF - IEEE Potentials
IS - 4
ER -