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Welcome to The Seed Pod: The Bridge Gap Community Podcast. The symbol of The Bridge program is a tree to represent the students as they grow; the seeds are the gifts that they give back to the world as they progress. This podcast is a small representation of that. Every week at The Bridge we have conversations about interesting topics and through The Seed Pod we want to share those with you and make you a part of the conversations. What you will hear are the students perspectives on fascinating and controversial issues related on personal growth as they relate to their own lives.
Episode #13. Personality: Do you think that people are born with their personality? Are they meant to be a certain way? Is your personality created by your experiences? How much can people change their personality, change who they are?
Episode #13. Personality: Do you think that people are born with their personality? Are they meant to be a certain way? Is your personality created by your experiences? How much can people change their personality, change who they are?
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Episode # 13.Personality - Seed Pod
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Welcome to The Seed Pod: The Bridge Gap Community Podcast. The symbol of The Bridge program is a tree to represent the students as they grow; the seeds are the gifts that they give back to the world as they progress. This podcast is a small representation of that. Every week at The Bridge we have conversations about interesting topics and through The Seed Pod we want to share those with you and make you a part of the conversations. What you will hear are the students perspectives on fascinating and controversial issues related on personal growth as they relate to their own lives.
Episode #12. The Risk of Privilege: Having access to good education, good nutrition, good contacts, health care, security, all of these things are considered privilege. These are some of the advantages of privilege, but what are some of the risks of privilege?
Episode #12. The Risk of Privilege: Having access to good education, good nutrition, good contacts, health care, security, all of these things are considered privilege. These are some of the advantages of privilege, but what are some of the risks of privilege?
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Episode #12. The Risk Of Privilege - Seed Pod
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Welcome to The Seed Pod: The Bridge Gap Community Podcast. The symbol of The Bridge program is a tree to represent the students as they grow; the seeds are the gifts that they give back to the world as they progress. This podcast is a small representation of that. Every week at The Bridge we have conversations about interesting topics and through The Seed Pod we want to share those with you and make you a part of the conversations. What you will hear are the students perspectives on fascinating and controversial issues related on personal growth as they relate to their own lives.
Episode #11. Honesty: Does the value of honesty ever outweigh the value of fault? Why should people focus on your honesty and forget your faults (forgive you)?
Episode #11. Honesty: Does the value of honesty ever outweigh the value of fault? Why should people focus on your honesty and forget your faults (forgive you)?
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Episode # 11. Honesty - Seed Pod
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Welcome to The Seed Pod: The Bridge Gap Community Podcast. The symbol of The Bridge program is a tree to represent the students as they grow; the seeds are the gifts that they give back to the world as they progress. This podcast is a small representation of that. Every week at The Bridge we have conversations about interesting topics and through The Seed Pod we want to share those with you and make you a part of the conversations. What you will hear are the students perspectives on fascinating and controversial issues related on personal growth as they relate to their own lives.
Episode #10. Failure & Giving Up: Why do people fail and give up? Is failing the same thing as giving up?
Episode #10. Failure & Giving Up: Why do people fail and give up? Is failing the same thing as giving up?
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Welcome to The Seed Pod: The Bridge Gap Community Podcast. The symbol of The Bridge program is a tree to represent the students as they grow; the seeds are the gifts that they give back to the world as they progress. This podcast is a small representation of that. Every week at The Bridge we have conversations about interesting topics and through The Seed Pod we want to share those with you and make you a part of the conversations. What you will hear are the students perspectives on fascinating and controversial issues related on personal growth as they relate to their own lives.
Episode #9. Independence: Today we Bring you to the Topic of Independence in the broadest sense. Independence as Young people’s goals to becoming independent. Or Independence as dependent on substances, or other people…How do people reach independence? What does it mean? Is it even possible to be independent?
Episode #9. Independence: Today we Bring you to the Topic of Independence in the broadest sense. Independence as Young people’s goals to becoming independent. Or Independence as dependent on substances, or other people…How do people reach independence? What does it mean? Is it even possible to be independent?
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Seed Pod - Episode #9: Independence
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Welcome to The Seed Pod: The Bridge Gap Community Podcast. The symbol of The Bridge program is a tree to represent the students as they grow; the seeds are the gifts that they give back to the world as they progress. This podcast is a small representation of that. Every week at The Bridge we have conversations about interesting topics and through The Seed Pod we want to share those with you and make you a part of the conversations. What you will hear are the students perspectives on fascinating and controversial issues related on personal growth as they relate to their own lives.
Episode #8. Pride: The question we discussed today is about pride. The importance of pride, the usefulness of Pride but also de dangers of pride. How Pride can turn into arrogance, or people can use Pride in negative ways. What is the down Side of Pride and and what is the up Side of pride? How do you gain pride?
Episode #8. Pride: The question we discussed today is about pride. The importance of pride, the usefulness of Pride but also de dangers of pride. How Pride can turn into arrogance, or people can use Pride in negative ways. What is the down Side of Pride and and what is the up Side of pride? How do you gain pride?
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Welcome to The Seed Pod: The Bridge Gap Community Podcast. The symbol of The Bridge program is a tree to represent the students as they grow; the seeds are the gifts that they give back to the world as they progress. This podcast is a small representation of that. Every week at The Bridge we have conversations about interesting topics and through The Seed Pod we want to share those with you and make you a part of the conversations. What you will hear are the students perspectives on fascinating and controversial issues related on personal growth as they relate to their own lives
Episode #7. Character Flaws: Today we asked ourselves what character flaw or character flaws hinder people from success or leading a fulfilling life.
Episode #7. Character Flaws: Today we asked ourselves what character flaw or character flaws hinder people from success or leading a fulfilling life.
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The Seed Pod - Episode #7: Character Flaws
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Welcome to The Seed Pod: The Bridge Gap Community Podcast. The symbol of The Bridge program is a tree to represent the students as they grow; the seeds are the gifts that they give back to the world as they progress. This podcast is a small representation of that. Every week at The Bridge we have conversations about interesting topics and through The Seed Pod we want to share those with you and make you a part of the conversations. What you will hear are the students perspectives on fascinating and controversial issues related on personal growth as they relate to their own lives.
Episode #6. Fitting In: Today we asked ourselves whether fitting in is healthy or unhealthy and how people balance their individuality with fitting in.
Episode #6. Fitting In: Today we asked ourselves whether fitting in is healthy or unhealthy and how people balance their individuality with fitting in.
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The Seed Pod - Episode #6. Fitting In
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Welcome to The Seed Pod: The Bridge Gap Community Podcast. The symbol of The Bridge program is a tree to represent the students as they grow; the seeds are the gifts that they give back to the world as they progress. This podcast is a small representation of that. Every week at The Bridge we have conversations about interesting topics and through The Seed Pod we want to share those with you and make you a part of the conversations. What you will hear are students perspectives on fascinating and controversial issues related on personal growth as they relate to their own lives.
Episode #5. Motivation: What is the issue with motivation? Motivation being a super important thing in people's lives. How do people around you maintain motivation, how do you get motivation if you don't have it? How do you personally interact with motivation in your life?
Episode #5. Motivation: What is the issue with motivation? Motivation being a super important thing in people's lives. How do people around you maintain motivation, how do you get motivation if you don't have it? How do you personally interact with motivation in your life?
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by Dr. Danny Recio, PhD
The other day I was talking with a student who claims to have not participated much in the completion of his own college applications last year. This is more common than one would think. A high school student feels overwhelmed with the pressures of completing senior year as well as completing the college applications, which both feel like defining factors of young people’s future success. Parents just want to help, and slowly involve themselves and other people more and more to get through the process, so their son or daughter don’t miss out on the opportunity. Parents tend to believe that the lack of proactivity and anxiety might just be momentary, and it’s better to just push through.
When this particular student was explaining the college application process, he basically said that he just took a backseat. I thought the term he used was brilliant, and made me think how often we intend for people to learn new skills but only give them a passive role in the process. If we take this backseat comment, and actually use learning to drive a car as the actual (yet metaphorical) intended skill to acquire, this becomes even clearer. It’s practically impossible for anyone to learn how to drive a car by riding in the back seat.
One reason why I think we are ok with people taking a backseat in a learning process, is because we confuse process with outcome. If the destination we are seeking is the neighboring town (in the metaphor of driving the car) or applying to college (in the actual example), it doesn’t really matter who’s driving, if what matters is the outcome. If the process is what matters, this completely changes.
It is true that the person in the back seat actually got to the neighboring town, but he probably doesn’t know how he got there, how to get back home, or how to get there again on his own. This is very obvious in the case of driving, but in education, psychology and parenting, we tend to be satisfied with getting people to the destination, whether they learned something along the way or not. We eagerly offer insight, solutions and information when the learner could have benefitted from finding such insight, solutions and information himself.
An effective learning process requires the learner to get in the driver’s seat, and the teacher to sit beside her in the passenger's seat. Very little will be learned in the back seat, and not much in the passenger's seat. In the driver’s seat, the learner can feel the responsibility of the process, and every single action and adjustment that works and doesn’t work. Yes, reaching the outcome might be slightly delayed, as the new driver doesn’t have as much experience, and will probably need to drive slower and change course along the way. But once the outcome is reached, it is likely to be more satisfying, internalized and sustainable.
For this to occur,the teacher in the passenger's seat guides the new driver through gradual and successive challenges, from simple to more difficult ones. The teacher initially directs a lot, explaining what actions to take and where to go, then gradually directs less, and eventually lets the driver drive alone.
Thus, next time we encounter a situation like this, we can ask ourselves: Is the outcome my goal or is the learning process my goal? And if the learning process is your goal… who is in the driver’s seat?
The other day I was talking with a student who claims to have not participated much in the completion of his own college applications last year. This is more common than one would think. A high school student feels overwhelmed with the pressures of completing senior year as well as completing the college applications, which both feel like defining factors of young people’s future success. Parents just want to help, and slowly involve themselves and other people more and more to get through the process, so their son or daughter don’t miss out on the opportunity. Parents tend to believe that the lack of proactivity and anxiety might just be momentary, and it’s better to just push through.
When this particular student was explaining the college application process, he basically said that he just took a backseat. I thought the term he used was brilliant, and made me think how often we intend for people to learn new skills but only give them a passive role in the process. If we take this backseat comment, and actually use learning to drive a car as the actual (yet metaphorical) intended skill to acquire, this becomes even clearer. It’s practically impossible for anyone to learn how to drive a car by riding in the back seat.
One reason why I think we are ok with people taking a backseat in a learning process, is because we confuse process with outcome. If the destination we are seeking is the neighboring town (in the metaphor of driving the car) or applying to college (in the actual example), it doesn’t really matter who’s driving, if what matters is the outcome. If the process is what matters, this completely changes.
It is true that the person in the back seat actually got to the neighboring town, but he probably doesn’t know how he got there, how to get back home, or how to get there again on his own. This is very obvious in the case of driving, but in education, psychology and parenting, we tend to be satisfied with getting people to the destination, whether they learned something along the way or not. We eagerly offer insight, solutions and information when the learner could have benefitted from finding such insight, solutions and information himself.
An effective learning process requires the learner to get in the driver’s seat, and the teacher to sit beside her in the passenger's seat. Very little will be learned in the back seat, and not much in the passenger's seat. In the driver’s seat, the learner can feel the responsibility of the process, and every single action and adjustment that works and doesn’t work. Yes, reaching the outcome might be slightly delayed, as the new driver doesn’t have as much experience, and will probably need to drive slower and change course along the way. But once the outcome is reached, it is likely to be more satisfying, internalized and sustainable.
For this to occur,the teacher in the passenger's seat guides the new driver through gradual and successive challenges, from simple to more difficult ones. The teacher initially directs a lot, explaining what actions to take and where to go, then gradually directs less, and eventually lets the driver drive alone.
Thus, next time we encounter a situation like this, we can ask ourselves: Is the outcome my goal or is the learning process my goal? And if the learning process is your goal… who is in the driver’s seat?