Chapter 11-Creating Frameworks for Possibility: how do I make insight into a daily thing and share it with others?
Hmm. The word 'Insight' is a noun meaning "the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing." It is of Middle English, probably lower German in the sense of inner sight, mental vision and wisdom.
So the way I am able to gain a deeper understanding of a person or thing is to study it in various ways, environments or situations. This is can be considered a scientific skill since that is the nature of science to study or observe for greater understanding. So, to answer the question, I use insight for our assignments by reading the components and additional or tangent information thoroughly (sometimes very time consuming), asking questions of my professor and getting feedback from my classmates when I want to check for shared understanding. With people, I usually watch, ask questions and over time can formulate some better insight into who they are for that particular shared environment. I have sense of my classmates for who they are in this class. I have more insight about my long term cohorts in this program since we have shared the most time, throughout a variety of situations and circumstances and time which has allowed me to experience them in many facets of their lives as our schooling can greatly overlap into our personal lives. Some as far as knowing their families from the many iChats.
There has been times when I have put forth the effort to share my 'insight' about one cohort with another when disharmony has shown up in group activities. I was only able to do that because I had spent more one on one time with the other person and had the chance to get to know them better. That was very helpful in maintaining the group cohesiveness and focus on the goal at hand. I thought it was the standard that all groups got along like ours, but maybe not. Insight- don't leave home without it!
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