Juhyoung Lee, Period 7, 10/25/22

 Juhyoung Lee

Modern Mythology 2023

Atomic Habits & Growth

At this current point in time, what specific standards have you set for yourself? How and why did you come to craft these standards? 

I like to set high standards that I know I probably won’t reach. When I set my standards my goal is to just get closer and by setting higher standards I would be urged to improve at a faster pace. More specific standards I set are on colleges, sports, and academic achievements. Since it's college application season and I want to get into a good school, I added a lot of reach schools to my college list. Following this is my writing standards. I know that my writing can use a lot of work and I want to improve since I’ll be needing this skill past college applications anyways. Another standard I set for myself is to be proficient at public speaking. I consider public speaking to encompass anything from formal presentations to talking to a group of people. Basically, I want to improve my people skills. I’m also on a sports team and I don't want to fall behind the team. So at games, my standard is to never lose a single match. I also know this is very implausible but I feel that I need to set these standards so I never get complacent. If I seem to be on a trend where I can reach my goal without trouble, I subconsciously slow my pace. By slowing my pace I will not reach as far. This leads to my second reason for setting high standards: I don't want to look back and regret that I didn’t try my best. My biggest regret so far is not studying as hard for the SATs and I don’t want to repeat it.  

How do you demonstrate resilience toward achieving these standards?

One way I’m demonstrating resilience is by going to every practice and game that I can. This way I’m always improving and not plateauing. I can further demonstrate resilience toward achieving these standards by constantly engaging in conversations outside of my comfort zone or writing instead of getting sidetracked. I often end up opening youtube during homework and college essays, and that really slows down my progress. In the future, I want to be more self-restraining in the future and learn control. 

How do you assess yourself?  What adjustments do you make? How often?

I can check how close I am getting to reaching my standards by checking the milestones that I set for myself.  If I’m really behind on my standard/goal, I lower them. On the other hand, when I see that I’m hitting my milestones faster than I expected, I raise my standard/goal accordingly. However, this rarely occurs because I had already set what I think is high as my standard and my definition of high is equivalent to I probably won't be able to achieve this. One of my goals right now is to finish my common app by this week. It's probably unrealistic but it’ll help me to work on it more often