Watch the video below and answer the proceeding questions. The direct link to the video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QleRgTBMX88.
- Who does the speaker identify as her audience? Does the speaker know her audience? Who is her audience (is she right, or is she wrong?)? Feel free to look up the audience.
- What is the purpose of this video (i.e. entertainment, self-expression, explanation, and/or persuasion). Is she successful in her delivery and explanation? If so, how does the speaker's knowledge of her audience help her to deliver her message about wrongness? If not, why?
- What is the Occasion (in Inquiry, they call it Situation)?
You will learn about the K in the ultimate acronym APOK next week.
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Due before class on Thursday, February 13th.
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2. The purpose of the video is explanation. Schulz is successful in her delivery because she seems to know a lot about being wrong. She says she spent five years thinking about this. Her audience is a bunch of smart people, so they can probably relate to her message, and to thinking about things for a long time. She has a lot of real life examples and uses personal experience as her evidence, which is convincing.
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How do you know her data is correct or that she has legitimate evidence that would convince really smart people? Read this book review on Schulz: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/books/11book.html?_r=0. Do you think that her ideas might be more appealing because they are accessible and not overly scientific?
Look to LBH pages 75-78 for advice on both how to give and receive advice with equanimity.
Look to LBH pages 75-78 for advice on both how to give and receive advice with equanimity.
Due before class on Tuesday, February 18th.
1. Kathryn Schulz addresses her audience as a group of intelligent individuals. The speaker does not know her audience personally, but is speaking to them in general regarding the subject of being wrong. Schulz refers to her audience as a group of "CFO astrophysicist ultra marathoners".
ReplyDelete2. Schulz in my opinion, is right. She has a way of making you think about times when you thought you were right, but in fact were wrong. The purpose of this video is explanation. The speaker is successful in her delivery and explanation because she knows a lot about being wrong when thinking that she's right. Her knowledge about the audience helps in delivering her message about wrongness by using personal experience, factual evidence, and actual examples. The methods and analogies used are very convincing.
3. The situation consists of the speaker talking to people about being wrong even when you think you are always right.
What would some counter arguments for Schultz be? Read through some book reviews and pieces of her book at www.beingwrongbook.com. Do you think any of these reviews show some examples of counter arguments for Schultz?
Delete1. Kathryn Shulz is speaking to her audience as "people who make mistakes." She knows her audience very well because they are people who want to grow personally and the possibility they are readers of her book.
ReplyDelete2. The purpose of the video is to persuade that we don't need to be overconfident people and being wrong is humiliating but ok. Kathryn knows her audience because we can all be in the realm of wanting to be "right" every once in a while.
3. The situation, Kathryn explains at the beginning, "why we sometimes misunderstand the signs around us" and how we react to being wrong about those "signs."
1. Kathryn Shulz identifies her audience as readers and listeners. She does not know her whole audience personally, but they have all been at a week long conference together. Shulz speaks to the audience about being wrong, also some people may have read her book.
ReplyDelete2. The purpose of the video is self-expression and explanation. She is successful at what message she is trying to get across. Her knowledge of her audience is that she already knows everyone has been wrong at one point in their life. So it makes it easier for her to get the message of being wrong, making them stop to think about when they were wrong, and not to judge when someone makes a mistake. Also, her analogies and stories about herself and others, even highly educated people being wrong.
3.The Occasion is Kathryn Shulz wanted to make sure that her message of how we all are all capable of wrong got across to her audience, so that they are aware that it happens and when it does, we move on to the next thing.
1.Kathyrn Shulz identifies her audience as the human race itself. She doesn't know her audience personally but she can identify with them well because she is of the human race herself and understands the thought process of being wrong and how it feels.
ReplyDelete2. The purpose of her video is a self- explanation of life itself, and to get across the point that in life you're not always going to be right and it's nothing wrong with it. That it is apart of maturing, growing up, and figuring things out for yourself. She is very successful in getting her point across because everyone can identify a point in their life when nothing they did or said could be wrong. She uses her knowledge to relate to the feeling of disappointment in being wrong because everyone has experienced this feeling of doubt in themselves.
3. The occasion for Shulz is to get her point across during the conference that throughout life there will be plenty of times you find yourself being wrong. But its not the time to put yourself down, its just time to reflect and correct yourself so you can do better next time around.
Jenae I do believe that the the author is getting her point across about being wrong in life as well. I also feel the author is very successful at doing just that, but I believe that her purpose isn't self explanation of life itself, its an explanation of human error and why it feels so wrong to us as humans isn't it ? http://beingwrongbook.com/synopsis
DeleteYes Michelle I feel that her conference was an explanation of human error and why it feels so wrong to us as humans but I feel that's only part of it. I feel the broad perspective was that being wrong is apart of life and it's human nature to think that were not wrong. I used the link above http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/books/11book.html?_r=0.
Delete1. Kathryn Shulz identifies her audience as the listeners and readers of her books. Shulz doesn't know her audience that well but knows that they are all here for one purpose and she speaks out to the audience about being wrong.
ReplyDelete2. The purpose of Shulz's video is to explain. She explains that being wrong is normal and it happened to everyone and that being wrong is learning to grow. Shulz is successful with connecting to the audience by using personal experiences and real life situations to portray her main point. She uses her knowledge to an advantage by relating to her topic and the experiences.
3. The occasion for Kathryn Shulz is to help the audience understand that you may find herself being wrong in a situation and it shouldn't let you down. It is a mistake and to learn from those mistakes and correct yourself so come next time, you won't be wrong.
I agree with Angel on saying that Schulz's speech is explanatory, but her audience is not necessarily listeners and readers of her book, but a group of perfectionists, over-achievers, and humanists. Can you think of an exception to the Schulz's argument? Skim through the author's book and through some of the reviews that were posted at www.beingwrongbook.com
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ReplyDelete1. Kathryn Schultz identifies her audience as being “overachievers” or “highly intelligent” or “CFO astrophysicist ultra-marathoners”; in other words, her audience is composed of individuals who do not consider themselves to be wrong in any aspect of their thinking. Schultz does not necessarily know her audience personally, but she does relate to them through her own personal experiences. Her audience however can include anyone – not just the overachievers. Her audience includes anyone in the general public who has ever hated being in the wrong.
ReplyDelete2. The purpose of this video is to persuade her audience that being wrong is an essential component of human nature. Her delivery and explanation are successful in her speech because she uses various examples to get her point across, such as the Chinese symbol on the road signs and the coyote and road runner analogy. Her own personal stories help her relate to her audience and thus deliver her message well.
3. The occasion is the state of mind we all find ourselves in at one point or another where we misjudge our own perception and end up being wrong.
1. Kathryn Schulz audience were the crowd of people that were listening and the people that read her books. She identified them as "Mr. CFO, Astrophysicist, ultra-marathoner or highly intelligent overachievers." This speech was geared toward the group of people that think they are never wrong in anything they do. Schulz doesn't really know the audience personally but she knows that they think like she does and used too, so she is able to relate with them on a personal level by telling them a story about the, "Chinese symbol."
ReplyDelete2. The purpose of the video was to explain and persuade the audience that being wrong is normal and leads a lot of us to learn something new from our mistakes. Most importantly she stresses that its OK to be wrong on the contrary to everything that we were raised with as cultural morals and value systems. Its being wrong that gives us introspection into things that our minds may otherwise have processed subconsciously. Schulz got he point across well and was successful through story telling and examples.
3. The occasion was to communicate that at some point or time throughout our lives or even days we are wrong, and that's o.k.! Its more dangerous to trust that internal gut feeling that your right then to question everything, even yourself.
I agree with Michelle that Shultz got her point across, but then again we don't know that her data is correct. But from personal experiences and going through life I can say that her evidence is legitimate because in the course of living life everyone makes mistakes whether its purposely or not. It's just human nature to think of themselves as perfect and that they aren't capable of being wrong .
Delete1. Kathryn Schulz audience was to the crowd she was speaking to and who reads her books. This speech was towards overconfident people who think that they are so right all the time but overlook actually being wrong. She uses lots of stories to connect to the audience as well.
ReplyDelete2. The purpose of this video was to tell the audience that being wrong happens to everyone, that it is normal. If people were not wrong we would not learn or change from it, and that sometimes we need to just take a look at what is wrong. Schulz was successful in making her point because she used true stories to prove her point.
3. In the book occasion means that sometimes we misjudge our feelings and that at one point in our lives we will be wrong and that its okay to be wrong.
1. Yes, she does know her audience. I'd say her audience are fans of her work, people that travel in the same intellectual circles.Her audience are forward-thinkers, over-achievers, perfectionists and humanists.
ReplyDelete2.The purpose of this video to remind us as humans we are naturally fallible and being wrong can be beneficial to personal growth/self discovery. We can learn from our mistakes and in doing so we may be able to prevent mistakes w a bonus of discovering new wonders. She successfully connects the audience and solidifies her claim by giving us everyday examples of being wrong that she has experienced or witnessed that the audience can easily identify with.
3. The occasion was a TED conference,the theme was Rediscovering Wonder. Kathryn was one of guest speaker and gave an inspirational speech on humanism.
1. Kathryn Schulz's audience consisted of readers of her books. Her audience was intelligent and over achievers. The audience were mostly fans of Kathryns. They could relate because we are all human. Schulz's does not know her audience personally but they are fans of her book.
ReplyDelete2. The purpose of this video is being human and everybody makes wrong decisions. Learning from our mistakes is the only way to better ourselves. She uses alot of examples to illustrate how everyone makes mistakes because we are all human.
3.The occasion was a conference in which she discussed that fact that all humans make mistakes and you have to learn from them.
How do you know that what the author is saying is true? Read some reviews at http://beingwrongbook.com/press
DeleteDo you think that because most people can admit and agree with being wrong at one point in time, it makes many people interested in what she has to say?
1. Kathryn Schulz identifies her audience as the people that have read her book and listeners. The speaker does not know her audience completely but she describes the audience as perfectionist and over-achievers.
ReplyDelete2. The purpose of this video is her self-expression and explanation of how being wrong can make someone feel. This comes from being overly confidant and assuming that you’re right. She does a great job of delivering her message about wrongness by using visualizations, personal stories, and real life examples.
3. The occasion for Kathryn Schulz is that everyone will be wrong plenty of times through-out ones life but, it should not be a reason to feel embarrassed or ashamed about. Instead of feeling bad for yourself learn from your own mistakes.
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ReplyDelete1.) Kathryn Schulz's audience is more of the intellectual people or some kinds of overachievers. She really doesn't know her audience, but being fans of her work.
ReplyDelete2.)The purpose of this video is her own explanation of that everyone is human and being wrong is just being ourselves. That we can learn from past mistakes to better ourselves. She gives great evidence to support this by the many stories she says.
3.)The occasion for Kathryn is that everyone will be wrong enough times to better themselves in life. That it is human and you shouldn't feel embarrassed for it. Learn from those mistakes and continue to improve your life further with the past behind you and looking toward the future.
So we acknowledge that we are wrong, we realize it after the fact, then what? How does admitting a wrong better ourselves? How does it improve who we are. Here is a radio interview w Kathryn, people admit they are wrong but what are we really learning? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127538671
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