2.+Managing+Impulsitivity

I've been told many times and on many occasions that if I control my impulsitivity, I could very easily improve my overall performance. Though most of the time I think of these type of suggestions as empty promises, I am not one to ignore a trend of suggestive feedback. Therefore, I have decided over the course of the year to be less impulsive and more calculated, in everything I do. This improvement reached a peak during the titration this last quarter.

I found out quite quickly how annoying it is to titrate. Usually, my relatively crude and impulsive ways are honed well enough as to get reasonably correct results. However for titration this is not the case. One extra drop and a liquid can go from clear to blood pink. Moreover, since I had to work with Jae Young, who proved to be an understanding and exceptional lab partner, I also had to make sure that my impulsitivity did not wreck our team's effort. Therefore, this was a situation in which I had to manage my impulsiveness. In the end, the patience and calculations paid off in terms of us getting a very pale pink solution. Just another example of how a Habit of Mind can improve class performance dramatically. Attached is a data table that we used for recording data, and to see whether or not the color of the solution was truly pink (Figure 2).

Figure 2