- "My goals are impossible to achieve."
- "I will set realistic, specific goals and break them down into smaller, manageable steps."
- "I will wait for success to come to me."
- "I don't need to plan; I will just see what happens."
Category: COURSE OF ACTION
- Laugh at their struggle.
- Watch them to see if they will drop anything.
- Offer to help them carry the bags.
- Take a video of them struggling.
- Pretending to know everything about a topic.
- Refusing to listen to any opinion that contradicts your own.
- Acknowledging the limits of your own knowledge and being open to learning from others.
- Believing that you are always right.
- Leave your trash behind for someone else to clean up.
- Use the space loudly without considering others.
- Use the space respectfully, clean up after yourself, and be mindful of others who are also using it.
- Try to claim the entire space for yourself.
- Feel jealous and stop being friends with them.
- Accuse them of cheating.
- Congratulate them and perhaps ask them for study tips to improve your own performance.
- Decide that you are simply not as smart as them.
- Interrupting others to make sure your point is heard.
- Using emotional and inflammatory language.
- Listening actively to the other person's viewpoint before responding thoughtfully, even if you disagree.
- Dismissing their opinion as stupid or irrelevant.
- "Rules are meant to be broken."
- "Rules limit my freedom and should be abolished."
- "Rules provide a framework for fairness, safety, and cooperation, allowing society to function smoothly."
- "I will only follow the rules that benefit me personally."
- Judging an entire group of people based on the actions of one individual.
- Refusing to interact with anyone who is different from you.
- Making an effort to learn about different cultures, beliefs, and perspectives with an open mind.
- Believing that your way of life is the only correct one.
- Criticize the players harshly and tell them they are all failures.
- Focus on the mistakes made during the game as learning opportunities and start preparing with a positive attitude for the next match.
- Forfeit the rest of the matches in the tournament.
- Blame the referee for the loss.
- Rip the page out of the book.
- Tell all your friends the book is useless.
- Inform the teacher or the publisher about the potential error so it can be corrected in future editions.
- Ignore the error.
- As a burden to society.
- As irrelevant and out of touch.
- As valuable members with a lifetime of experience and wisdom to share.
- As people who no longer need respect.
- Pretend to understand to avoid looking foolish.
- Stay silent and hope the teacher doesn't ask any questions.
- Ask the teacher for clarification after class or raise a hand to ask a question.
- Blame the teacher for not being a good instructor.
- "We already know everything there is to know."
- "Questioning established ideas is dangerous."
- "There are always new things to learn, and we should be curious and challenge our own assumptions."
- "Only geniuses can make discoveries."
- Sharing someone's private information online without their consent.
- Leaving anonymous, hateful comments on a post.
- Respecting others' opinions online, even if you disagree, and protecting your own privacy.
- Believing everything you read on the internet.
- "Things have always been this way, so they can never change."
- "One person cannot make a difference."
- "Change is possible when individuals work together towards a common, positive goal."
- "The world's problems are too complex to be solved."
- Spread the rumor to more people.
- Confront the person spreading the rumor aggressively.
- Refuse to participate in the gossip and privately express your support for the friend being targeted.
- Believe the rumor without question.
- Join in with the injustice.
- Safely stand up for the victim or report the injustice to the proper authorities.
- Pretend you didn't see it.
- Blame the victim.
- Argue with the person giving feedback.
- Take the feedback as a personal insult.
- Analyze the feedback objectively and use it as a guide to improve your skills.
- Ignore the feedback completely.
- Sharing unverified health rumors on social media.
- Refusing to get vaccinated based on conspiracy theories.
- Following public health guidelines, such as hygiene and vaccinations, to protect yourself and others.
- Visiting sick friends to show you are not afraid of getting ill.
