{"id":2472,"date":"2018-07-18T18:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wagsfp.urop.lsa.umich.edu\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:10:55","slug":"personal-reflection-a-lesson-in-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/2018\/07\/18\/personal-reflection-a-lesson-in-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Reflection: a Lesson in Values"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been going to Wolverine Wellness every two weeks for the past month or so just to be able to talk about my life with a neutral person. It\u2019s not therapy, more just a check-in and way to talk through stuff. Anyways, last session, I learned something fascinating about myself. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Academics have always been a priority in my life. I have always cared greatly about my academic success, and am extremely motivated to achieve my academic dream of getting into a top program for Clinical Psychology. Probably due to this motivation more than anything else, I have, overall, done well in academics. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Last Friday, in my Wellness session, I was asked to do an activity about my values. I was allowed to pick the dozen values that are most important to me. Out of the twelve I chose, only two had to do with career success. Of those two, one of them was \u201cwork ethic\u201d, which I value in all areas of my life, so really I chose only one value related to career success (\u201cachievement\u201d). Almost all the others had to do in some way with my relationships with others. When we realized this, I was shocked. Ever since I was a little kid, academics have been incredibly important to me and a huge<\/span> focus in my life. And yet, my most important values did not reflect that; at all. And all of a sudden, things clicked into perspective for me and explained a lot about what I worry about and how I carry myself. <\/span><\/p>\n

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After I had chosen my top values, I was asked to select the ones I wanted to work on. This was a no-brainer for me. I struggle with being vulnerable with people. Early in high school, my best friend at the time got really mad at me because she felt hurt that I wouldn\u2019t open up to her more. In though in retrospect I\u2019m nots rue I completely agree with her decision to guilt me into opening up, I learned an important lesson that day that people who truly care about you <\/span>want<\/span><\/i> to hear what\u2019s going on in your life. And while I have improved greatly since middle school, I am still working on how to open up with people. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been going to Wolverine Wellness every two weeks for the past month or so just to be able to talk about my life with a neutral person. It\u2019s not therapy, more just a check-in and way to talk through stuff. Anyways, last session, I learned something fascinating about myself.   Academics have always been… Continue reading Personal Reflection: a Lesson in Values<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities-and-challenges","category-rhianna","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}