In the last class we did an activity making a castle with Lego blocks. I was curious about the purpose of the activity at the beginning. But right after we finish making each of us castle, I could understand the genuine intention of the activity. I expected that we all would make similar shape or size of castle. But it turned out that our castle looked totally different and they had their own features.

Reflecting

In the wikipedia it says that Lego is the effective tool to embody our inner thoughts or emotion . By building a Lego tower, people has a chance to represent their mindset or emotion unconsciously. Furthermore it is useful for us to improve our intelligence and cure the mental diseases.   According to Maria Teresa Mata, she said that lego castle can produce the opportunities to interact and communicate with other people.

When it comes to the communication there are many ineffective ways of communicating with people. If we communicate ineffectively, it can cause some problems incurred by interpersonal gap such as loneliness and vocational incompetence. But by using lego castles, we can resolve this kind of ineffectiveness and help us overcome the barriers we have in our mind.

Advantages of Lego

In chosun ilbo, it said it is prevalent that even many adults collect lego in these days. There are two main reasons for that. Firstly since it is stressful for people to work during the whole week days, many people are inclined to form their own world by buying or building lego. And Secondly, they are getting to realize that the lego is the one of the effective tool to ventilate their stress and to communicate with other people or oneself. Because of these two reasons it seems like more people try to build or collect lego nowadays.

REFERENCE

ROBERT BOLTON, PH.D. PEOPLE SKILLS

LEE BYUNG HEE ( 2015. March 19) Psychology of Lego which went viral

http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/03/19/2015031904125.html

Wonderful mind ( 2018. April 18). Advantage which we didn’t know regarding psychology of Lego

In the first chapter of the people skills  i was able to learn many things. Firstly communication is the paramount thing in our life. It is indisputable that having a communication is omnipresent and takes place every day. So if we failed to have the successful communication, it is obvious that we will go through many problems.

Secondly , when it comes to the problems which can be caused by ineffectiveness, there is the interpersonal gap between people. And this gap can cause vocational  incompetence and dissatisfaction. And this kind of gap incur ache of loneliness.

Thirdly, it is crucial to have successful communication in order to have successful relationship. For instance, when we get married or work,  it is vital to communicate with one another to resolve the conflict or understand each other. Thus, it is the key to have the successful communication in order to maintain amicable relationship

Lastly, by having the successful communication, we can change ourselves. If we have the successful communication, there is the good chance that you will learn something from the other person. by having this process you will change and be able to manage the resistance of learning not being conservative.

In the second chapter i could know the barriers to communication. without realizing it, people typically inject communication barriers into their conversations. There are two barriers which take place frequently. First one is the reponses whose impact on communication is frequently negative.  and the secondly people frequently diminish the other’s self-esteem. If this kind of barriers keep happening in communication, it is inevitable to cause the negative result such as having permanent damage to a relationship.

There are three types of high risk responses. First one is the judging such as criticizing , diagnosing and praising evaluatively. And second one is called sending solution like ordering , threatening, moralizing and excessive or inappropriate questioning . And third one is avoiding the other’s concern such as diverting, logical argument and reassuring.

After knowing the many roadblocks in communication, i realized that i am inclined to use this kind of roadblocks while i have communication with other people to mock them or to make fun of them. But thankfully as long as i use these roadblocks sometimes, it doesn’t harm the relationship.

In conclusion i could learn that the certain ways of verbalizing can harm the relationship severely and trigger feelings of inadequacy and anger. So from now on , i should be aware that i can use this roadblocks easily without knowing. And I need to be careful that  trivial thing can ruin whole relationship and try hard not to use these roadblocks which are referred to in this chapter.

Building a lego castle

In the last class we did an activity making a castle with lego blocks. I was curious about the purpose of the activity at the beginning. But right after we finish making each of us castle, i could understand the genuine intention of the activity. I expected that we all would make similar shape or size of castle. But it turned out that our castle looked totally different and they had their own features.

In the wikipedia it says that lego is the effective tool to embody our inner thoughts or emotion. By building a lego tower, people has a chance to represent their mindset or emotion unconsciously. Furthermore it is useful for us to improve our intelligence and cure the mental diseases.   According to Maria Teresa Mata, she said that lego castle can produce the opportunities to interact and communicate with other people.

When it comes to the communication there are many ineffective ways of communicating with people. If we communicate ineffectively, it can cause some problems incurred by interpersonal gap such as loneliness and vocational incompetence. But by using lego castles, we can resolve this kind of ineffectiveness and help us overcome the barriers we have in our mind.

In chosun ilbo, it said it is prevalent that even many adults collect lego in these days. There are two main reasons for that. Firstly since it is stressful for people to work during the whole week days, many people are inclined to form their own world by buying or building lego. And Secondly, they are getting to realize that the lego is the one of the effective tool to ventilate their stress and to communicate with other people or oneself. Because of these two reasons it seems like more people try to build or collect lego nowadays.

REFERENCE

<PEOPLE SKILLS > – ROBERT BOLTON PH.D.

http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/03/19/2015031904125.html

https://wonderfulmind.co.kr/know-good-legos/

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