Zhanar Osmonaliev | Portfolio
Zhanar Osmonaliev | Portfolio
What is the right balance for spending effort to creating more meaningful and defining moments in our work and personal life?
This question arose as I read “ The Power of Moments ” by Chip and Dan Heath. They define a moment as a “short experience that is both memorable and meaningful”. A core idea from the book is to think about how we can be the authors of these moments. However, it takes extra time and energy to instrument these moments, which can get in the way of our already busy lives.
One example I found interesting was about transforming a classroom experience. Students in a high school English class were reading “The Lord of the Flies” when they received an official-looking legal complaint saying that the author would be on trial for misrepresenting human nature in the book. Each student had a role to play in the trial (witness, attorney, or judge) and two months to prepare before going to an actual courtroom to decide the author’s guilt. The students acted as famous witnesses from lit
Zhanar Osmonaliev | Portfolio
Zhanar Osmonaliev | Portfolio