{"id":373,"date":"2021-07-01T03:30:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T03:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/?p=373"},"modified":"2021-07-01T03:31:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T03:31:20","slug":"discussion-questions-6-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/2021\/07\/01\/discussion-questions-6-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion 6\/28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  1. I absolutely love the way that Heffernan approached her TEDtalk.  She was able to get her main theme across to the listener, that efficiency is not always the best work aspect, by way of storytelling and setting different scenes.  In the beginning of her talk, when she first mentioned the supermarket method to have each worker come to be assigned a task and then return for another when finished, I personally thought it was a very good idea.  It was not until she made her point that there are always unpredictable aspects to the day when I realized that she was right.  The way Heffernan was able to bring forward her argument in a small easy to understand way and then follow it with much bigger real-world examples was brilliant.  She also included some very well-timed anecdotes that became very memorable for the audience members.  One in particular was around minute 12:50 when she remarked about when efficiency and productivity are the only things valued.  Heffernan then stated, \u201cWhat gets left out? Anything that can\u2019t be measured\u2014which is just about everything that counts\u201d.  This made the viewers, especially me, realize that being efficient is not everything and that there are sometimes much more important things than work.<\/li>
  2. For question number two, I chose to analyze Renata Salecl\u2019s TEDtalk titled Our Unhealthy Obsession with Choice<\/em>.  It was clever of her to start out with a bunch of quotes about choices and then stating that she was unable to choose the best one.  It led into her main idea very well, that humans are very caught up in the need to make the best possible choice and then becoming overridden with anxiety or guilt on whether it was the correct one.  She then led into very compelling real-life examples of the anxiety and the fickleness of the human unconscious.  The first story she told was perhaps the most memorable to me.  When Salecl mentioned her friend at the car dealership who would plant ideas into her customers head and encourage them to make decisions they most likely would not have made on their own.  It just goes to show that human choices are impacted by their surroundings and upbringing.  She then connects her next two stories by using the idea of anxiety and its connection to predictability, which in turn connects us back to our main idea of choices can be scary but we know we will always be making them.  Each of Salecl\u2019s stories blend into each other seamlessly and further proves the point from before while still introducing a similar but new idea.  I personally thought it was very well done and created a lot ideas to further ponder.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I absolutely love the way that Heffernan approached her TEDtalk.  She was able to get her main theme across to the listener, that efficiency is not always the best work aspect, by way of storytelling and setting different scenes.  In the beginning of her talk, when she first mentioned the supermarket method to have each … Continue reading “Discussion 6\/28”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[22,12,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}