Self-reflection

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2024 Sep 16 22:59
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2025 Jun 2 15:14
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Looking the past and future events at the same time without isolation

Reflective writing

  • Descriptive (minimal) - What When Who Where - Looking back
  • Reflective (maximum) - Why How So what - Analyzing & Projection

Hindsight (Retrospective,
Regret
)

Insight from behind events
Your feelings and emotions are very strong right after the event, but you can reflective more objectively after a bit time later. Reflecting later could enable considering several aspects such as cause emotion changes with critical tone stepping back.

Critical reflection (objectively)

  • making connections between events and ideas
  • refining and reformulating ideas

Framework Models for reflective writing

  • Experience → Observation → Conceptualization → Experimentation → … (Kolb, 1984)
  • Descriptive → Feeling → Evaluation → Analysis → Conclusion → Plan → (Gibbs, 1988)
  • What → So what? → Now what? → What → … (Rolfe, 2001)
  • Reporting → Relating → Reasoning → Restructuring (Ryan, 2013)
 
 
 
We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience. - John Dewey
 
 
 
Balance between "diving deep" and "stepping back" is crucial. In other words, it's important to work hard when needed while regularly questioning and reviewing your path to prevent losing sight of your direction.
 
 

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