Reflection for forth week learning

Learning is essential to our existence. We are learning from many different ways and learning
will never stop and it likes a life long journey. We are making learning in our daily lives and
we use it. With the completing of forth week learning from the class I have learned new
things that the teacher shared his experience and knowledge. Among them, I would like to
share about difference between sympathy and empathy, importance of short term goal, quotes
of Albert Einstein.

I would like to share about difference between sympathy and empathy in the first topic.
Sympathy and empathy are very close and sometimes used as synonyms, but they are
different. I have understand, sympathy refers to the ability to take part in someone else’s
feeling, mostly by feeling sorrowful about their misfortune. But empathy is a term we use for
the ability to understand other people’s feelings as if we were having them ourselves. For
example, when we go to see someone in grief and tell them how sorry are, it can feel like we
are empathetic to their situation. After all, we know it must be terrible to live a loss like that.
May be we even take the time to bring them flowers or a card. However, this is an example of
sympathy. Imagine our beloved cat is dying. We try to keep him happy and healthy for as
long as possible, but the day comes when she is too much pain to enjoy his life. We may take
it to vet and have his put to sleep. This is a choice made out of empathy. After all, I realized
sympathy involves understanding from our own perspective but empathy involves putting
ourselves in other person’s shoes and understanding why they have these particular feelings.

Next thing is about importance of short-term goal. Before I talk about the importance of
short-term goal, I want to share how I came to understand it. I have assume, short- term goal
is something we want to do in the near future. The near future can mean this week, today, this
year or this evening. It means a goal that we can achieve with 12 month or less. There is
some importance fact of short- term goal. I have learned, having a short- term goal provide an
immediate way forward to accomplish the long term goal. Let’s imagine we might have an
end goal to complete a hike, our immediate goal should be to avoid tripping on the rock in
front of us. I learned short –term act as a milestone journey to reach long term goal of our
life.

The last one is about to do list. When it comes to time management, I fully believe that to do
list will be included. My definition for to do list is just simple, a list of materials that we want
to get done or that need to get to done. Making to do list is important because to do list helps
our plan head. It gets to do items out of our head and onto the paper. It forces us to have a
“plan” for the day. There are a lot of benefits to have to do list. Having to do list will improve
our memory, increase productivity and help with motivation. I realized to do list is also an
important part of time management and we should write down a list for new days. It acts as
preparation for tomorrow.

In conclusion, I have gain new things and some of points are mentioned above. We learned
about sympathy and empathy. Sympathy is a compassion and sorrow one feels for another
and empathy is focused around personally identifying with or projecting oneself in another’s
situation. We should set a short term goal first to achieve our future dream. To do list is an
important part of time management. As for me, I have made new knowledge for my life and
it was very useful for my future goal.