Hodgman's Summary

Memory is one of the most important things we have in our life because it involves in almost every part of our mind including problem solving, decision making, and our interest in life. We depend on it because it helps us make good decisions in life. Memory is the solution in learning and thinking and we use it in our everyday life. Think about the first time you kissed someone you loved or the time you learned how to tie your shoe for the first time. Those are all forms of memory whether they are short or long term. If you do not remember anything from the past then you are having a hard time managing your memory. Without memory you would be exposed to new and extraordinary things in life. Take for example, “Aliens, Love where are they?” by John Hodgman and “Jon” by George Saunders. John Hodgman and Jon both teach readers how without memories we would have a difficult time knowing who we are, who we love, and what we want in life.

Design is defined by Webster as “to create, fashion, execute, or construct according to plan; to conceive and plan out in the mind; to have as a purpose; to devise for a specific function or end; to conceive or execute a plan; or to draw, lay out, or prepare a design.”

sensitive to the rhythm and nuances of living. Design should be seen as a configuration and

After riding in a cab for a while, Holden and Horwitz the cab driver begin talking. Horwitz being a cab driver and all, Holden assumed that he knew about the ducks. So Holden decides to ask him if he ever passed the lagoon in Central Park, where the ducks were. When Horwitz says he knows about the lake, Holden questioned further if he knew where the ducks goes during the winter. Horwitz response was harsh and he was becoming irritated by Holden’s tedious and silly questions. Holden decided to drop it and then Horwitz spoke up. He notifies to Holden that the fish stays in the lake, but Holden tells him that they are different from the ducks, but Horwitz tells him that there is no difference, which causes Holden to hesitate. Holden, “...didn’t

First, he thought of the purpose of the design. Was it for a certain company or group, or was it to express something. He had to be creative and include many perspectives in a usually simple design. He also had to make the design interesting to gain it more exposure. He needs to think of what community or demographic will be viewing the design, and fit it to that demographic.

My writing struggles are legitimate and something I have always had a hard time with since grade school. Writing has been one of my worst subjects that concern me because when writing an email or a memorandum, I always wonder what the reader is thinking or saying about my writing. However, there is no feedback and things just move along, so I am happy to be in this course. We have been discussing writing for the audience which should produce papers or discussions with a higher level vocabulary, but these words elude me, along with commas, semicolons, colons and transitional words. Dr. Horgan, you have been spot on with your assessment of my writing, I have difficulties in these areas, and this has been a known fact. Before I started

Another lesson that Hagman taught was to use his second chance to leave behind a legacy of charity and good works. Hagman worked with American Cancer Society's annual Great American Smokeout and the National Kidney Foundation later in his life to raise awareness and help raise money for those causes. Sometimes it is more important to leave behind a legacy that is not measured in dollars and assets as memories of helping and giving can last longer than just leaving behind possessions. Hagman used his health problems as a way to help others and teach other to be healthy and avoid the results that happened to him. It would have been easy for Hagman to give up, but he will long be remembered for fighting on.

1. Martin Seligman proposed that our perceptions of power and control are learned from experience. He believed that when a person fails at controlling certain life events, they may generalize failure of control in all situations and may stop attempting to exercise control, becoming depressed as a result of learned helplessness.

Martin Seligman used to be the President of the APA (American Psychological Association). When he was President and throughout his tenure thus far as being therapist he conducted a lot of studies. In those studies he learned a lot about positive psychology. He focused on the emotion of happiness. What he found out was that people who have a positive aspects, engagement and meaning in their lives tend to have a very happy and powerful life. Through his TED talk he described how important it is for people to have all three sectors of the positive aspects, engagement, and meaning. "The sum of the whole is greater than the parts" is a quote he mentioned to explain his message that if someone has only positive aspects and no engagement or meaning

He used the tangled weird rope example to demonstrate his argument about CEOs becoming great designers and how people are connected /tied together by human experiences. He also defined the term “design” as something that does not yet exist, but will eventually exist when a leader arranges his/her elements to become a reality.

The first comment I found interesting is when Hoffer says, “success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us” (Hoffer 6). This really got me thinking about how people will say that their success or failure is just the result of what has happened in their own lives rather than saying it was their individual effort. It is interesting that someone who fails at something is more likely to blame it on the circumstances rather than themselves, but someone who is succeeding will have the opposite in mind and believe that they have been blessed. It is also fascinating to see how this idea relates to people wanting people to join a mass movement due to the different views on their current positions.

Maintenance of transfer can be viewed as an enduring change in an individual’s behavior, skill, and attitude. Specifically, maintenance characterizes the sustained use of learned skills and behaviors on the job over time (Laker, 1990). Without resources to support transfer, it is proposed that behavioral changes following training will be short-lived. Skill decrements over time will be a result of a decrease in the use of trained skills on the job. A literature review conducted by Arthur, Bennett, Stanush, & McNelly (1998) found evidence of substantial decline in training effects over time with lack of use.

He begins his talk speaking about birds. And details on a six-hour talk he had previously given. He continues on to talk about how design is the first signal of human intention. And then he asks what are our intentions as a species? He asks what is the first question for designers? He states they use the tools of commerce for their work. Their primary question they bring to it is how do you love all the children of all species for all of time. The discussed his visit to the white house and his discussion about global warming. If you don’t have an end game you’re just wasting time. He jokes that if anyone has a hard time with the concept of design humanity he reminds us it took us 5000 years to put wheels on our luggage. He discusses there is no

Training transfer means that learners are able to “transfer” their knowledge and skills learned in a training session back to their jobs. The importance of training transfer cannot be overemphasized. Organizations spend billions of dollars each year on training, yet only a fraction of that investment results in improved performance if training transfer is not supported by stakeholders (i.e. any individual or group that has a “stake” in the transfer of training). These include managers, peers, customers and the employer. Stakeholders also assume responsibility for supporting transfer.The goal of training is not simply to gain knowledge and skills, but to transfer learning into performance, which in turn leads to improvements in agency results. Training transfer is not an event; it is a dynamic and complex process that requires planning. The use of effective transfer of training principles can help maximize the effectiveness of training

Convergent validity tests if constructs that are theoretically related are in fact related. It is indicated by variance extracted for each factor(Fornell and Larcker1981). AVE > 0.5, which means that the construct explains at least 50 percent of the variance of its observed variables. The AVE values for all the constructs ranges from 0.720 to 0.890, which is well above the threshold limit of 0.5, thereby confirming the convergent validity. The path coefficient of 0.627 depicts a strong positive relationship between Learning achievement and Learning Transfer. The path is significant with T = 9.148. The desired outcome of a training is the transference of learning to the job which is channeled through the learning performance (Lim et al 2007). Many research studies have proven that the transfer of knowledge onto the daily routines is directly affected by