Skip Downing Chapter 2 Summary

Within "Shifting Out of The Drama Triangle: Victim vs. Creator Mindsets", by Donna Zajonc, the author's interpreation of "creator" is that an individual who possess the mindset will set their goal and find out what they need to do in order to achieve it. Through my time at Nellis AFB, there were times where I couldn't stand what my supervisors were having me accomplish for my day-to-day tasks. Although the work was time-consuming, repetitive detracted from my typical tasks, it aids in my overall task of earning Senior Airman Below-The-Zone which allows me to rank up 6 months

According to Downing, author of On Course, when it comes to personal responsibility, there are two ends of the spectrum: creator and victim. A creator is someone who believes they have the sole responsibility for the outcome of their life, they understand that their actions have been ineffective, and strive to change them to “create the best results they can” (21-22). Though he uses different language to explain, Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of

This quote shows the true meaning of responsibility, because

My parents want nothing more than for me to be successful in my life. For example, they did not think that they were going to have enough money to send me and my brothers through college, so my mother decided that she was going to go back to school so she could become a successful lawyer. She did that and she finished second in her graduating class. She now has a high ranking job and my parents feel confident that they will be able to get the four of us through school somehow.

One of the themes that kept standing out to me from Scandalous Obligation: Rethinking Christian Responsibility by Eric Severson is blame. Blame is what I believe to be in basic human nature, even as Christians. Even from chapter one Severson mentions blame and even affirms what I'm saying about blame being instinctual on page sixteen, although he calls it responsibility and states "Instincts, honed since childhood, drive us to find our way out of responsibilities when they can be avoided. Responsibility comes with hassle, cost, pain, and risk” (16). What I feel he really is talking about in the context of responsibility is blame, who is going to take the blame for the situation and how instinctively even from a young age, we try to find a way out of taking the blame, even sometimes maybe pushing blame onto

Thanks to my parents pushing me to do my best, I have an outstanding work ethic in school and on the field. Because of this effort and work put in, I have been a captain on basketball, football, and baseball teams. Not only were my parents important factors but, so were my coaches and teachers. Coaches and teachers have pushed me to do the best I could and told me when I did things wrong, but praised me when I did them right. They helped to slowly build my character, leadership, scholarship and dedication to everything and anything that I do so that when I had to do something it was done the right way instead of halfway.

In the novel Frankenstein, the article Prometheus and the speech “Worship the Spirit of Criticism” there are many examples of why people should hold responsibility for what they create. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about a young man who wants to create life from death, and in doing so, it affects his life greatly. In Prometheus, There is a titan who wants to give the gift of fire to humans, but its outcome was bad, and he suffered the consequences for it. “Worship the Spirit of Criticism”, a scientist, Louis Pasteur, expresses how he feels people should take responsibility for what they create. Creators are fully responsible because what they create impacts the world in either a negative or positive way.

In order for someone to reach their destination they have to go on a trip or journey. One question that has been debated is if the journey is more important than the destination. Some people say that there is no point in going on a journey if someone doesn’t have a destination. The idea that the journey is more important than the destination is true because in the journey it is possible to meet new people, view new things, and make friends.

Although people that are confident enough to take responsibility for their actions and choices know that they are also responsible for the consequences, most people are incapable of seeing what they did wrong and blame the outcome on other reasons. This blame can lead to unjust and immoral consequences that are not deserving of certain people, this can be seen in today’s society.

Ever since I was a young child, my parents always told me to try my best in school, they always told me this for the reason that they never had the opportunity to have a good job because they never finished school. This event is shaping me to care a lot regarding my education. In addition to that, another event that has shaped me to become the person I am today is that since my parents don’t have good paying jobs they have to work hard to take care of me and my siblings this event has caused me to become a hard working person and to seize all opportunities to live a good life because I don’t want to struggle like my parents.

My parent have alway said to me, never to give up on what I'm trying to accomplish or the goal that I'm trying to reach even though if it seems impossible. That they will alway support me on anything that I want to do, maybe not financially wise because they will help the best they can. My whole life things were never just handed to me, I worked for them and some people tell me that my parents should do more for me that I shouldn't have to work so hard because I'm just 17 years old that I'll have the rest of my life to work, but I think differently because it made me realize life isn't just fun and games, it helped me mature faster then most kids, it also gave me life skills that will help me out in college and life after college.

When something wrong happens to you, your paretns are there to quickly correct t and show you that the action was not obliged by. But, they can only teach so much, they do their best to the exent of their knowledge, ub tsome thnigs we have to learn on our own. That’s what makes us human, and we learn from our mistakes and grow fro it. THe many thng you gain from your parents are often carried on wth you throughout your life and will be passed around to other people and younger generations.

Fundamental questions propelling this debate is why an individual has to be responsible for his action yet they (actions) are not out of free will but from environmental factors which he/she cannot have control over. The simple answer is that we are not, however unpopular this reality may be. On this view, while it may be of immense realistic value to hold people liable for their actions, and to utilize systems of reward and penalty, no one is really justified of blame or praise for anything (Honderich 2002).

One reason why my parents will always be my biggest motivators is because they know what 's right from wrong and they know life. They tell me and always pushed me to do my best no matter what. They told me I 'm going to have a lot of distraction and a lot of things I do not want to go through but, its going to happen, thats just life. In the beginning of Elementary school, I

As I entered my teen years, my father expected more out of me than just being a good student. Dad always seemed to have projects going on around the house, and I became his helper. It did not matter what the project was, he always seemed to need my help and I was not happy about that. I had better things to do than wasting a weekend working around the house. Somehow my dad knew how to do everything and felt it was his job to teach all of it to me. I was a teenager and had all of the knowledge I would ever need, so I thought. As it turned out, most of the skills I obtained helping my father led me to a rather lucrative career in manufacturing a few years later.