In this past week there has been a slight change to the addition of things we have to accomplish in the IA weekly agenda. Planned by the entire group, we decided that it would be useful to watch documentaries and then analyze them. The reason behind this is because of our IA service trip in May. We will be filming our service trip to wherever we plan to go (we still haven’t decided yet) and serve there community there in an impacting and meaningful manner. Therefore we watched a documentary called Jiro Dreams of Sushi; which depicts a whole new meaning to how we view our job and how we feel about it.
Jiro Ono shows how even after doing the same job for 75 years, he still is passionate and believes that there is more to innovate and master upon. Besides this lesson he teaches of perfectionism he teaches a very important lesson that I took into thought: Falling in love with your work The majority of people now-a-days will tell you, chose an occupation that you love, that motivates you and persuades you into creating/doing the best of your potential. Although Jiro might agree with this, it is more profound than just that: “Once you decide on your occupation you must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work. Never complain about you job. You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success and is the key to begin regarded honourably.” In order to fall in love with your work it takes discipline. A personal connection that I noticed with this lesson was of my floating idea of maybe being a painter. Although I love to paint, I hesitate in immersing myself completely because I am still open to learn new things because I am not exactly sure if I would fall in love with painting everyday. However, Jiro proves that his sons hated making sushi when they first began, but with handwork and discipline it seemingly paid off. Therefore, I feel that once I go to college I will be able to finally be able to test new things that I can immerse myself for completely in. “It takes discipline and commitment to fall in love with your work." In the IA I have realized that when working for Blendz, the majority of us do fall in love with our work. At times however I question wether we all actually do? Does the human resource team love what they do? In class this past week we did basically ask ourselves wether we love what we do our not because we changed up our different jobs once again. Those who seemed to not be in love with what they were doing were able to chose to begin working on our new service trip project, another option to immerse themselves in. In my case I have fallen in love with working and creating the IA merchandise, however, I do feel that I need to immerse myself more into creating more work in a quicker time span.
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Bill Cotter
3/24/2015 12:21:00 pm
Stefan, your blog this week nicely summarized the key components of the movie and related them both to your personal work and the work that you are doing with Blendz. I like your point that "it takes discipline" because I think that this is something we often forget when we begin to follow our passions. Most of the time people associate following your passion with doing what you love and they never consider the discipline or hard work that takes. Your blog shows that you have thought about this important idea. Please see your Diigo link for more specific feedback: https://diigo.com/07gkvk
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