Jerry Garcia Research Paper
A Touch of Grey, Lessons from Jerry Garcia: My Five Key Values
The 5 key values that I wish to live my life by is deeply reflected from my childhood. I had a tumultuous childhood; my parents were tie dye vendors who followed the Grateful Dead, and that was just the beginning. Since then I have come to recognize 5 key values in my life that I wish to hold as constants and grow myself upon.
The first value that I wish to live my life by is to be present with mind and self. This also involves accepting the good and the bad. And understanding that I have no control of anything outside of myself and my reactions. Which includes being aware and present when interacting with others and giving everyone my complete attention. Many people around me …show more content…
Often I find myself in denial about my abilities. I either overestimate myself or underestimate myself. Sometime I am too prideful to admit that I need help. I also worry that I will try to manipulate others to join my vision and my mission without being completely honest about all the negatives. I hate disappointing people, but I could avoid this with honestly.
The third value is creativity and to trust my creative abilities. Often I see the world differently from others. In high school and undergraduate, I tried to hide this fact and not talk about my childhood. But lately, I am speaking up more about my experiences and allowing myself to be more creative. I find that I am most creative with ideas when work off of others.
The fourth value to understand universal context. To understand what makes the human experience and how to understand and improve the lives of others. To do this, one needs to understand their context and their stories that they tell about themselves. I have a sister at Harvard and I have another sister in prison. I understand their contexts, lives, and the stories they tell themselves. As the IDRC talks about Levi-Strauss, who is one of my favorite socio-anthropologist, the reading skims his idea of binary opposition in terms of culture. To better understand how a person’s culture can create so many oppositions of value would be greatly
The 5 key values that I wish to live my life by is deeply reflected from my childhood. I had a tumultuous childhood; my parents were tie dye vendors who followed the Grateful Dead, and that was just the beginning. Since then I have come to recognize 5 key values in my life that I wish to hold as constants and grow myself upon.
The first value that I wish to live my life by is to be present with mind and self. This also involves accepting the good and the bad. And understanding that I have no control of anything outside of myself and my reactions. Which includes being aware and present when interacting with others and giving everyone my complete attention. Many people around me …show more content…
Often I find myself in denial about my abilities. I either overestimate myself or underestimate myself. Sometime I am too prideful to admit that I need help. I also worry that I will try to manipulate others to join my vision and my mission without being completely honest about all the negatives. I hate disappointing people, but I could avoid this with honestly.
The third value is creativity and to trust my creative abilities. Often I see the world differently from others. In high school and undergraduate, I tried to hide this fact and not talk about my childhood. But lately, I am speaking up more about my experiences and allowing myself to be more creative. I find that I am most creative with ideas when work off of others.
The fourth value to understand universal context. To understand what makes the human experience and how to understand and improve the lives of others. To do this, one needs to understand their context and their stories that they tell about themselves. I have a sister at Harvard and I have another sister in prison. I understand their contexts, lives, and the stories they tell themselves. As the IDRC talks about Levi-Strauss, who is one of my favorite socio-anthropologist, the reading skims his idea of binary opposition in terms of culture. To better understand how a person’s culture can create so many oppositions of value would be greatly