Role Models: Strengths and weaknesses

Last week’s class and book reading was over being a role model, the main point that Rachel and Amy talked about was the different types of values. This was really cool to think about between the three words we had to choose our strength and weakness. I never really thought in to these values too much to know which ones I needed to work on. One of my main weaknesses out of all these values would probably be focus because I am so easily distracted especially while doing something I don’t enjoy. Silas brought up a good point with this weakness. When have multiple things to work on to set out only the things that you need to work on in front of you. That way if you get distracted, it is by something else that you need to work on. I have start to do this while studying and doing homework at home. I have also found to remove myself from the living room area where my Xbox, DVD player, cable with all movie channels are, and Netflix. This help resist the urge to do any of those things and to focus more on my homework or studies. It was also cool to see where our other peer mentors stood on their weak or strong values. I notices that majority of the group ended up at the same word, which for some words is most likely the case because we are all leaders and have similar leadership traits. This chapter was quite a bit shorter than previous chapter but still very important to becoming good peer mentors. We will be these students’ first mentor/ impression of college, we really are role models for them. To be good role models we need to first know our own strengths and weaknesses so we can be good examples of college students.