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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Socratic Dialogue reflection paper - Marion Sathicq.docx | |
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| -How did this class help me better understand what I want for MYSELF as a future manager? How did it shape my thinking into a stronger and more self-assured idea of the person I want to become and the path I want to choose, however hard it might be? This paper will focus on three main subjects that are the most important to me, because they are the ones for which I do not have answers at all, and also because I feel that they are the ones that will be part of my future happiness | |
| -Indeed, there are many challenges to face, especially for someone like MYSELF | |
| -This may occur when I do not have the sufficient level of self-confidence and BELIEF in my capabilities | |
| -For fear of taking my own decisions and fail, and therefore disappointing my team and my boss, I will say Yes amen to every suggestions people do to me, in order to avoid choosing for MYSELF and therefore take a responsibility in a potential failure, or in order to avoid conflict and confrontation with people that scare me | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Reflection Paper Juliette ten Brink.docx | |
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| -I am then forced to ask MYSELF the question if I am happy | |
| -To help MYSELF think about fear, I would like to explore of the opposite or antecedent of fear | |
| -If I fear loneliness, and I imagine that I am lonely that means that I am by MYSELF somewhere and missing out on activities and things where other people would be together | |
| -Then I’d start understanding that even if I were not there and I was by MYSELF, that doesn't mean that I'm not significant, that doesn't mean that I cannot be important | |
| -It just means that some days are better than others, and that I need to learn how to be by MYSELF without feeling lonely | |
| -I have gone through periods of suffering and in that moment realized that I needed to change MYSELF | |
| -I think for me, having life means having opportunities to enrich MYSELF to be able to enrich others and to leave behind a world that is better than it was before I entered | |
| -I have a constant conflict within MYSELF | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/SD_FinalEssay_ViktorPenzinger.pdf | |
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| -One the one hand, I was aware that my knowledge of the work of the great philosophers was at a level between little and average and that this course could be a way to improve this level and MYSELF in a challenging “Socratic” atmosphere | |
| -Clearly helpful in preparing MYSELF for this type of classes was a book I stumbled over by accidence | |
| -After reading the book, I’m of the opinion that this was not only a highly interesting and easy-to-follow way to get MYSELF into the “philosophical mood” upfront | |
| -Some are related to MYSELF, while others concern the way I engaged and dealt with other individuals in class | |
| -Is my identity as a manager different from what my identity is as a whole? Do I play a role, which means some kind of narrative I tell MYSELF to be (Paul Ricœur) or am I even faking 4 Socratic Dialogue, Final Essay Viktor Penzinger ESADE, Spring 2016 it to know MYSELF better (see: Fernando Pessoa)? And, last but not least, who should be the one to judge about my identity as a manager? Who really knows my identity better – me as the “owner” holding the strings of my identity, or my social environment, i | |
| -During our discussion around the flute dilemma, I saw MYSELF entering it with a fixed opinion, which however was more than challenged as the discussion evolved until I realised that I had ignored the arguments in favour of the other children to undermine my initial decision | |
| -to not only listen to my established way of thinking as a men, but also to remind MYSELF of this different voice constantly and to take its considerations into account | |
| -7 Socratic Dialogue, Final Essay Viktor Penzinger ESADE, Spring 2016 I personally consider MYSELF a very thoughtful and reflecting person | |
| -8 Socratic Dialogue, Final Essay Viktor Penzinger ESADE, Spring 2016 What I personally was able to derive from this documentary was that I also see MYSELF holding some prejudices sometimes and that these prejudices (such as seeing inmates as truly evil persons or as evaluating their participation in the movie as solely opportunistic actions) do not have to be there forever | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/SOCRATIC DIALOGUES JOURNAL.pdf | |
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| -However, we also EXAMINED some other philosophers that supported different reasoning’s, such as Clement Rosset that states that identity is social and therefore depends on the people surrounding us | |
| -I believe that this is the way to get to know MYSELF more deeply and therefore be able to cope with the different circumstances I find along the way | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay.docx | |
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| -This was also the period in which I started having deep conversations, especially with the teacher of Italian literature or with other adults, on topics like human nature, religion, God… In this period, I also started forming the basis of my current ideas and believing, and the basis of MYSELF as a person | |
| -Because it means that you have to create yours, or find yours, and this can happen only through a deep self-analysis and INTROSPECTION (that’s why is so important, as Socrates said, to know yourself!) | |
| -This is also why, I think, there is a diffuse perception that simple people, such as farmers or people living in the mountains, are more likely to be happy, because again they can find behavioral rules in nature and routines, and they don’t have to pass through the phase of deep INTROSPECTION to define your own | |
| -I guess there is a difference in the happiness that you can reach with this two different methods, at least in terms of awareness given the different level of efforts the two different groups of people need to put to be happy, but I still have to work on this, I am not satisfied with the answer I gave to MYSELF up to now | |
| -Since I came to the university I repeat every day to MYSELF: I know where I want to go, I have to build my own path without being influenced by the path that my university and my classmates are pushing me to follow | |
| -At some point during last semester, which was particularly stressing for me, I found MYSELF applying for the same job as my classmates, in the biggest MNE and Consulting companies | |
| -Instead of committing MYSELF to find something I really want to do, I just followed the built path without even thinking about it | |
| -Thanks to it, I was able to understand that I had lost MYSELF, and start the process of finding MYSELF again | |
| -I was able to understand that for me the meaning of my life is happiness, and happiness is to know MYSELF and my values and behave accordingly | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final.pdf | |
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| -It has served as a space not only to explore and rediscover those topics through dialogue with classmates, but also as a starting point for INTROSPECTION | |
| -We then discussed about Socrates maxim that the only life that is worth living is the EXAMINED life | |
| -I realised While later reflecting on Socrates’ maxim of living the EXAMINED life I realised that in spite of our opposing views about the nature of reality and truth, this did not degrade the socratic methodology of living the EXAMINED life, but actually that this multiplicity of reality could make socratic dialogue even more valuable: instead of helping us reach one universal truth, socratica dialogue can help us discover other truths and hence enrich our own experiences, perceptions and perspectives | |
| -In order to remind MYSELF of this I developed the following rule of thumb: I should seek for second, third, and beyond, opinions whenever I have to make an important decision and: i | |
| -In long-term disjunctive for happiness that I mentioned earlier, my key learning is that we should periodically engage INTROSPECTION into process to ensure that what we are channelling our energy in is truly aligned with our priorities | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay - Dasha.pdf | |
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| -I used to think that I had enough understanding of MYSELF, and there was no point for me to constantly question MYSELF in order to get to the bottom of the reasoning behind my every decision, because it was simply not the most efficient thinking process | |
| -With the iterating questions surrounding the topic of identity and personality, I saw my idea of MYSELF being gradually shaped in front of me, in a clearer and more critical way ever | |
| -In this case, the person who was posting all the questions was not necessary the person who knows me the most in the world, but I was able to discover a whole new aspect about MYSELF, thanks to her guidance and the method | |
| -Then we linked it to Frankl’s BELIEF in that life means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems, and that suffering adds a deeper meaning to life | |
| -I would very much like to know what exactly I am working towards, but I must admit that so far I have yet to approach REALIZATION | |
| -On the other hand, the risk-adverse part of me would also like to spare MYSELF from suffering if possible | |
| -Even as a woman, I need to constantly remind MYSELF not to fall into the pitfall of taking anything for granted | |
| -Coming from a different cultural background, I do find MYSELF resisting the desires to follow the stereotypes when they work in my favor | |
| -However, I realized that I have learned something more about MYSELF, Ying Tung (Dasha) Lin CEMS Spring 2016 and learned how important it is to understand MYSELF, as well as others | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Isabelle Spicker_Socratic Final.pdf | |
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| -Amusing MYSELF on the way is okay although not for finding pleasure in itself but in order to refill my energy reserves to be able to work more | |
| -I therefore promised MYSELF to pay close attention to whether the pull of my current meaning of life is fading and if so, to start doing Socratic Dialogue with good friends and to take time to read philosophy and to contemplate on my own | |
| -However, that day, I realized through comments made by my classmates that I pressurize MYSELF a lot through the task of contradicting stereotypes | |
| -This leads to the fact that it is not only hard for me to be a woman because society pressurizes me by providing norms on how to lead a family, what to work and how long to work or else, but also because I MYSELF pressurize me in this regard | |
| -” The goal I define for MYSELF needs to be hard to reach or it would not be challenging and thus it would not provide meaning | |
| -However, I promised MYSELF to pay closer attention to what kind of pressure I expose MYSELF to | |
| -I should rather carefully choose high impact actions to achieve my goals than make MYSELF subject to unconscious pressures which only make my life harder but do not help anyone | |
| -However, I need to watch out for this impetus to be a pull in a direction I want to go and not an immense pressure I expose MYSELF to | |
| -It sounds like a stupid REALIZATION that my friend is sometimes unhappy and in fact, I naturally knew that she had hard times | |
| -On the contrary, I was strongly opposed to Jonas’ ideas of progress being something negative and I had to force MYSELF to contemplate on his theory with comparable depth | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/KGanko_paper.pdf | |
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| -While signing up for the course I became very hopeful that the class would help me in discovering MYSELF and help improve my communication skills, since I have experienced difficulties and limitations in those areas | |
| -I realized that I was indeed sacrificing MYSELF to save my reputation, hiding my personal stories and true self | |
| -I want to constantly learn and develop MYSELF | |
| -Here the class provided the example of cheating on your beloved, not because you want to cheat but because you are desiring another person and the feelings attached to the REALIZATION of that desire | |
| -My main learning when answering questions related with the Heinz thought experiment was REALIZATION on how I approach moral dilemmas | |
| -I cannot even manage MYSELF | |
| -My areas to improve include: • Continue psychotherapy • Embrace the vulnerability • Become aware of MYSELF without fright 6 | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/SD_FinalEssay_AlessaVogler.pdf | |
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| -I would regard MYSELF as being a feminist, so I usually do not feel comfortable clustering men and women | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/socratic final essay.docx | |
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| -A philosophy class taught in a “Business School” sounded kind of ironic to me at first and I’m not going to lie, I had a tendency of thinking of MYSELF being better than others because I had spent quite a bit of time in my late teens reading philosophy | |
| -I always used to think to MYSELF -as a victim of puberty- back in the day, “How can people be okay with living in all these boxes, systems and rules?” and I would wonder if I were the only one questioning things (Yes, my later teen years were hard times) | |
| -I have found that I long for a sense of belonging, being understood and understanding MYSELF and working towards what satisfies me, which is hard honestly considering how often my goals and the things that would satisfy me change | |
| -Talking about this and seeing how everyone actually shared a piece of thought here and there with me made me feel safer and to look for further understanding of MYSELF | |
| -Seeing how willing everyone was to demolish their own walls and to speak helped me understand MYSELF by creating comfort away from my comfort zone | |
| -Since self awareness had always been something I struggled with, describing happiness put me in a position where I had to think more about it and thinking more about it really helped me define MYSELF | |
| -I MYSELF have always been someone who obsesses over results, how I am perceived and what I have achieved | |
| -I think I am more at peace with MYSELF and my surroundings | |
| -I know MYSELF better now, how I define happiness or success and the theories we talked about in this class have allowed me to leave my obsessions aside and actually be able to focus on good causes that will lead me to success and happiness in the end | |
| -Being more peaceful and aware of MYSELF will definitely affect how I will be a manager in the future because I don’t think a person who is not at peace with themselves can lead or manage properly it will always be destructive, I am lucky to be in a better position with that now | |
| -As an employee, a manager, a friend or a son I will always force MYSELF to have an open mind in any relationship I walk into and understand the person sitting next to me, because I have seen how powerful it is to have a white blank page when you are first starting something | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Marek Medvesek_Final essay_ Socratic Dialogue.pdf | |
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| -It showed me therefore that these philosophers were not us detached from reality as I once used to think and that studying them can prove to be extremely beneficial, when trying to understand MYSELF and as an effect improve the quality of my life | |
| -I learned how important it is to devote some time to contemplating about life and understand MYSELF | |
| -I had to ask MYSELF the question of what do I want to do in my life and this is what lead me to apply for a Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at ESADE | |
| -Again however did I bend under the social pressure, by enrolling MYSELF for CEMS | |
| -I will try to put MYSELF in other people’s shoes because as Fernando Pessoa said “Faking is getting to know yourself | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/AKBAR, Sumer - SD Final Essay.docx | |
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| -Everyday, I try to improve and better understand MYSELF and what things mean to me in a personal context | |
| -This sense of SELF-AWARENESS has heightened my level of consciousness of my personal thoughts and actions and how it impacts those around me in a personal and professional setting | |
| -As an aspiring manager, I understand that my opinion on the aforementioned topics must be consistent in how I display MYSELF in front of my family, friends, and colleagues | |
| -The impetus behind this essay is to take the key themes of SELF-AWARENESS, happiness, fear, justice, and responsibility and how my perception has changed over the course of the semester | |
| -How legitimate are they? Are they rational? Are they sound? It was Socrates who believed that values and beliefs do not change over time and that life is only worth living when we reflect on it, however I find MYSELF in a dilemma questioning what I know and why I think that way | |
| -I continue to struggle to place MYSELF in a particular school of thought in the paradigm from Utilitarism to Marxism | |
| -I would not describe MYSELF as a religious person by the conventional means, but have trusted that a higher being is out there and I am a mere puppet dancing to his tunes | |
| -There are things I do for MYSELF to being out my inner happiness, whereas I can also be happy doing things to make my family and friends happy as well | |
| -I find MYSELF dwindling between the two | |
| -I have put MYSELF through immense amounts of pressure to succeed | |
| -Overall this semester, I have many key takeaways and have earned a new appreciation of learning about MYSELF, my peer group, and society as a whole | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Laker, Maximilian - Final Essay.pdf | |
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| -SELF-AWARENESS & REFLECTION On the most abstract level, what I’ve learned in this course is a higher degree of INTROSPECTION and SELF-AWARENESS, as well as a higher attentiveness to the importance of reflection on one- self and others | |
| -To put it into perspective, before taking this course I perceived MYSELF as being a quite self-aware person knowing more or less what I want in life, thinking I had well-thought ideas or my own perception of concepts such as happiness or identity – which I never had expressed explicitly though | |
| -That also means examining whether the decisions I take are determined by MYSELF or merely a consequence of being impacted by external influences | |
| -Many times we let ourselves be manipulated too much by what we perceive others think, although we are the people leading our lives, so why don’t we free ourselves from such external pressures? Alas, unfortunately all that does not mean that I have figured out exactly the answers for MYSELF to the questions that were discussed during the course | |
| -However, this newly acquired alertness of not knowing will ultimately help me to reach a higher level of SELF-AWARENESS and consequently lead to a better life, as I will be able to set my priorities in a way that corresponds more with my own ideas of a good life | |
| -THE SOCRATIC DIALOGUE AS A SKILL On a slightly less abstract level than a new perspective on SELF-AWARENESS, the method of the Socratic Dialogue is a tremendously valuable skill, that I have started to develop throughout this course | |
| -On the one hand, it allows me to explore MYSELF and my own ideas on the big topics in life much better with the help of patient and attentive friends | |
| -From my perspective this is a crucial element, as it requires the actual REALIZATION and fulfilment of this idea rather than mere the contemplation of it | |
| -Identifying MYSELF more with the stoic school of thought, having to wait until the end of one’s life, whether or not some great misfortune might happen – which I can not influence anyway – would seem to me like a source of fear and insecurity, substantially impacting everything I do | |
| -Instead, if I free MYSELF from such external calamities, the question if I have a life marked by happiness is only dependent on MYSELF and my own actions | |
| -Also in less grave, every-day situations, I can free MYSELF from a lot of fear, disturbances and annoyances by applying a stoic attitude | |
| -Thus, even if I MYSELF never arrive at fully understanding my meaning of life, I can have a meaningful life with focusing on the more tangible elements of it | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay_Phillip Schmalzried.pdf | |
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| -Happiness For the past months, I have been trying to figure out for MYSELF which jobs I should apply for and, ultimately, what I want to achieve in life | |
| -Why is it that I believe I need to dedicate most of my energy into my career, ready to ultimately sacrifice personal relationships along the way? Is that the meaning of life I have identified for MYSELF upon examination, or is it not much 3 Phillip Schmalzried – Final Essay – 19 | |
| -I have experienced this MYSELF many times and for many different reasons, when experiencing the fear of making a mistake, of failure, or of disappointment for instance | |
| -If there is one thing, above all others, that I am taking away from this course, it is the REALIZATION that it is not only good to question the status quo, when it comes to our personal development it is also necessary and crucial for expanding our horizon | |
| -But having learned about the art of having a Socratic dialogue and having witnessed and experienced the personal development of so many, including MYSELF, as a result of it, I am convinced that it brought us all a great deal closer to achieving excellence | |
| -Despite the significance of this REALIZATION, my personal takeaways from this course can not be limited to this | |
| -Every single session and every single topic has broadened my mind and got me reflecting on my life, my attitude towards MYSELF and others among many other things | |
| -I for MYSELF am convinced that I grew as a person week by week, discussion by discussion and most importantly with every self reflection that was triggered by them | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/YelizSunay_FinalReflectionandEssay.pdf | |
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| -Now I am able to better reflect and draw a comparison between the first lesson we had up until the final symposium, a long journey that everyone of us took; however I believe that the outcome has been tremendous ‘at least’ for MYSELF | |
| -Here what is most important is that there were moments why I was only happy for a very short time and now I am asking MYSELF why? Was it something I took for granted or did I not realize I was happy? What was the good life back then and what is it now? There were moments in my life where I thought I am only working in order to attain ‘material goods’ and that everybody is doing so as well | |
| -When going to work on weekends I was thinking which material good to buy next in order to make MYSELF happy | |
| -I have to admit it was a complete new experience for MYSELF and it was the first time I was on my own so far away from my parents and was responsible for my own life and my own happiness | |
| -I did not know what I wanted, I just knew I wanted a job in Marketing in some great MNC where I can learn and develop MYSELF | |
| -For eleven months of my life I literally ‘sacrificed MYSELF’ and my goal to become happy in order to save my reputation from everybody | |
| -I was 19 years old and did not really get it-‐ but now I realize I had sacrificed MYSELF and hidden my identity many times during these six months | |
| -’But Somebody would ask why I did that?’ Well a partial explanation would be that I wanted to meet up the expectations and my expectations that I set for MYSELF | |
| -I am happy to see how many times I have sacrificed MYSELF in order to make others happy | |
| -I am fully aware that it will be a long journey for MYSELF to find ‘my right path’ and my personal filter will make it much harder, but I know that I have to do it for MYSELF | |
| -This clearly relates to Socrates and his definition of an ‘EXAMINED life’, which in my opinion is necessary to understand what makes life worth living | |
| -We make choices on a daily basis but are we really putting a lot of thought in them to achieve happiness? For MYSELF I can say that nobody forced me to do a Master; but rather everybody in my close environment believed that I should rather start working and gain experience | |
| -Therefore, the question for MYSELF remains? Will he ever be able to control his desire or will he remain a slave of his own desire? After the long talk we had the only thing I hope that he know what he really wants and once he has decided takes a step accordingly | |
| -When I will be at work I have to act in the common good of everybody and don’t act selfish or make MYSELF a victim of my ‘own desires’ | |
| -I do not want to take a new identity on my new job just to please others and make them feel god by sacrificing MYSELF-‐ something I used to do before | |
| -Rather would I prefer to have less intimacy to people and maybe not being liked for being different instead of supporting evil actions and sacrificing MYSELF | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Dimitrios Mitropoulos - Final Essay.docx | |
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| -Clearly, I do not know MYSELF to the fullest | |
| -And now that I embark on my journey to become a manager in a multinational setting what seems to me as essential is no longer learning more about MYSELF, but actually maintaining my previous knowledge | |
| -To my surprise more and more people who would previously define happiness as pursuing an eternal “carrot” hung in front of their faces show a wish o moving towards a more thoughtful, EXAMINED lifestyle | |
| -Incredible question, one that I have never asked MYSELF before | |
| -I actually find MYSELF agreeing with Viktor Frankl for the most part | |
| -The only difference is that this time I urge you to do it in a methodic and EXAMINED way, drawing from both experiences and education | |
| -If I find the way to put MYSELF in this politician’s shoes I might possibly learn to be more sympathetic towards him | |
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