Blog post #3: How to have a Beautiful mind chapters #6-7

Welcome to my blog. For the second time hello. This blog post will be about the experience of the second two weeks of February; what I have learned and a simple reflection. For these two weeks again, I have recorded notes of each session went with my mentor. The notes were again, corresponded with the book “How to have a Beautiful Mind” by Edward de Bono. The two weeks were simple because we just started learning more deeply about the engine and so much more. I have included some pictures of what me and my mentor did do enjoy!

Progress Report. with a bit of mentor stuff.

For what I did for the last two weeks were different from the other weeks. Me and my mentor moved inside to the car so like the interior work. Honestly this was fun to learn about, coming from 2 full weeks of engine and some physics study. For both meetings we covered up 2 parts, the seat belt, and the windows. Keeping up with the book just a heads up the focus was on listening. I really think it was easier to listen just because we were meeting in person. I really do think communicating in real life is more understanding them communicating online what I believe most of the other peers are doing. But anyways, starting with the seat belt, there was one thing that stood out to me the  most, it was “some cars in the older designs of cars have automatic seat belt” said my mentor; this really surprised me because it was cool having a automatic seatbelt and I even asked why they don’t make it currently; “if there was a accident and you were stuck in a car the automatic seat belt wouldn’t move because its powered by electricity” my mentor answered, this made me think did design on the seat belt really matter? After talking about the topic for a while we came up with a design checklist of a seat belt, is it safe? Is it easy of unbuckle? Is it a nice design? All these things made me think, then my mentor said to think of a design that I would use on a car that has all the checklist points checked off. (picture 1 and 2, scroll down). Coming up with these ideas were very hard because the range of where you can put two of the points were low, but even through I still can up with a idea, honestly I would put the design on my car but there could have some issues. “The area near the roof is very little, it would be hard securing the out point on the roof” my mentor responded. After the second meeting I realized everything in the car is in its best place it could ever be.

“All of the car designs are looking so similar before the last latest design because their running out of ideas”. This was the first thing my mentor said on the seventh meeting. It was funny because technically it is true, but anyways we started off with looking at different types of car windows; some had lots of windows, some even barley had any. He told me to think of all the pros and cons of having more window space. I didn’t quite write it down but here are some things I said. PRO: larger view of the outside world, more natural light, might feel like driving a plane, makes the car look more expensive and its glass is broken larger area to break out. CONS: if it breaks a lot of glass and lots to repair. Seeing these two responses I came up with I think a lot of glass isn’t good and a little of glass isn’t good either, conclusion I think the glass should be the right amount the car needs.

The Book.

This whole In-depth project will be based on the book called “How to have a Beautiful mind” by Edward De Bono. This book talks about all the different aspects of life and the mind to make understanding and working smoother. Each week I did chapters 6-7.

Chapter 6: listening.

In this chapter Bono talked about listening. Honestly, I think my listening skills are pretty good compared what he has said in the book but there will always have room to grow. One sub-topics I tried to stay onto what Bono said was asking questions. Asking questions had helped me miss the parts I couldn’t understand of what the speaker spoke or more deeper ideas. Asking questions had made me learn how to treat a mentor. I think learning simple car machines isn’t a thing you can learn just by listening, asking questions made me really think my mentor is a “mentor” not a “teacher”.

Chapter 7: questions.

Fitting perfectly after my last meeting with my mentor came asking questions. I made sure to follow Bono’s tips when asking questions. One if the many tips I used was asking opened-ended questions. Not only this made my questions not boring, but it made more questions develop on top of the opened ended question I just asked. This made the session with my mentor longer and made more ideas spark which is good because sometimes I might not get what in listening too.

thanks for coming, cheers!