2V What is Initiative?

Initiative: 1. the ability to asses and initiate things independently.

                 2. to take charge before others do.

Self-Serving Bias:  people's tendency to attribute positive outcomes to personal factors, but                                attribute negative outcomes to external factors.

Logic :reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity

 

According to the dictionary initiative means asses things independently and to take charge, and I think that relates to what all of our professors are trying to teach us. High school was different, when learned differently, it was more group centered thinking, but here at college the only way to survive is to become an independent thinker and that is where initiative comes into play.  There countless of resources available to us here at Southern, but if we don’t take charge and use them when we are struggling, then they just become another room in the halls of Engleman.

                The words self-serving bias and logic came up in my Sociology class and they seemed to go hand in hand with what initiative is all about. Self-serving bias is simply the tendency to overrate yourself, and although it is great to take to bull by the horns and go work on something new, but if you are one of those people who think that no matter what they do is always great, then you are never really going to be successful with what you’re doing. When deciding to start a new project there has to be some kind of logic behind it. If you have a paper you have to write and you don’t plan out what you’re going to write, it is not going to make sense and as a result you will receive a grade that is never good to see.

                Overall taking the initiative is always a good thing, but in order to do it successfully you have to remember to think everything through and never overrate yourself to the point where you think that you can do no wrong.