Nothing worth doing comes easy. Even people at the top of their professions struggle not just in the beginning but rather constantly. Personally, I believe that the beginning is the toughest point of it all and that it only gets better from there. However, not everybody gets past that point and instead gets discouraged easily. There is no definite tutorial on how not to become the latter but there are things that you can do if you want to get past that initial hurdle.
Know where you currently are to find out where you want to go and how you want to get there. Assessing yourself will you an idea of where you excel and where you need a bit of improvement. As a media writer and development communicator in training, we are fortunate enough to have an established list of skills and qualities of which we can use to evaluate ourselves. My personal evaluation led me to the following realizations.
Among the qualities listed, which quality would be the one that you need to work on the most? Why?
Graduating Senior High School from the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Strand, some may expect that I would take on a natural science or engineering course. However, my passion remains with communication and doing work for the people hence my choice of studying under the College of Development Communication. All throughout my SHS years, I was heavily exposed to various scientific and academic school works and barely any activities that stimulate creativity. Due to this, my imagination and creativity was not honed and has honestly been dulled throughout the years. Being imaginative has always been my weakness. My inclination towards academic papers and journals over the years have trained my mind to favor the left hemisphere (analytical and logical) over the right hemisphere (creative and imaginative).
Given your ratings, what keeps you from getting that 1.00 self-rating?
My Senior High School life limited my lack of experience when it comes to dealing with creative works and creative people. I used to believe that creativity or being imaginative is something that you are either born with or not. However, I recently came to the realization that it’s not as linear as that. Creativity and being imaginative can be developed. One way of doing so is surrounding yourself with creative and imaginative people. Influence is a factor that I have missed out on but that should not stop me. Even if I was not exposed to such when I was in SHS, I can still be creative and imaginative especially since the College of Development Communication is full of creative and imaginative people.
Among the skills listed, which skill have you developed the highest competency? What contributed to the development of that skill?
Gathering data has always been my strongest suit. Reading academic journals and research papers for hours on end may be tedious to some but to me, it’s interesting and relaxing. This is a virtue that I have brought with me to my journey as a media writer. My passion for gathering data by reading also translates to how I gather data through different means as a media writer. In retrospect, this is one of the positive sides of graduating from the STEM Strand of SHS
Among the skills listed, which skill would be the one that you need to work on the most to develop? Why?
Editing, lay outing, or any other skill apart from gathering data and writing has always been my weakness as a media writer. Personally, I do not have much experience with using the basic tools such as video and photo editors. I know the basics but not much beyond that. I believe that if I want to be at least a decent media writer, I need to work on my weakest traits and this is definitely one of them.
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