Reading Notes: Mahaharata Part D

Abhimanyu and Jayadratha:
Very intense story about Arjuna's son being killed. He was basically traped by a crew of 7 people being led by Jayadratha.  I don't really think it was a fare was for Abhimanyu to be kill given the way he was such a great young warrior. However, Arjuna was so upset he had vowed to kill the evil Jauadratha by the end of the next night or he couldn't attain heaven. I thought that build up a lot of tension in this story that he baskically gave himself a deadline to whether or not he was going to be able to go to heaven. So by the end of the story Arjuna kills Jayadratha right before the end of night because they were all fooled into thinking that the sun had already set. I think I could give a twist to the story by telling it from the Kauravas side and how they created this plan to hide Jayadratha so that Arjuna would be able to kill him by dark.

Death of Drona:
While reading this I was a little dissapointed that that the Pandavas allowed Bhima to trick Drona. As far as the Kauraves go they do these kind of sly tricks all the time. However when they let Bhima do this to Drona it kind of let me down a bit. I also understand that they are in war but I thought they would be able to make it through it without going to a low point to trick a person that trained them fo the majority of there lives. I did think it was very cool how Drona's spirit kind of just disapeared from his body before they cut his head off. That in many ways to me I still think if Drona being a better warrior because he didn't trick them.

Death of Drona:Source

Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part C

Arjuna and Shiva:
Very cool story about Arjuna. He basically has to go on a solo adventure to be able to get a very powerful weapon to defeat Duryodhana and his brothers. So he goes to the Himalayas to go and worship and prey. What I thought was cool about this was that the more time he spent up there the less he was would have to eat. He eventually go to the point to where he only needed air to sustain his life. Side not that is impossible but I think it adds to how committed to the cause he was in this story. He eventually get to the part in the story where a boar was charging after him and a unknown huntsman and Arjuna shot at it and begun to fight over it until he realised it was the God Shiva. I think the weapon he got from him is freaking awesome because it can be used by thinking about it or using your eyes only when ou run out of all your other weapons. Could tell this story and maybe a journel entry because he was there for around 4 months.

Arjuna recieves the Pashupata:Source

Arjuna and Indra:

Really enjoyed this story. I think it has a lot of potential to be able to create my own ideas in it. They talk about how Arjuna goes off into the depths of the sea to fight off the enemey's of his father Indra but it doesn't really give much detail about the attack as a whole or really how the celestial weapons work in battle. I believe that I could tell the story about what Arjuna was thinking and a lot about what happened while he was in this conflict. Could also set up the  story by describing the city that Indra lives before Arjuna leaves for battle.

Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part B

The Fire House
That it was really interesting story. Basically the Blind King just really hates the Pandavas princes and will do anything to kill them. But the way that they supposedly died reminded me a lot of Game of thrones and how everyone thought that the youngest Stark boys were burned alive in the show. Though they ended up not dying at all which is just life this story! I think that I could narrate this story from the miners perspective. How he had to hide out in the palace and work at night so that he could save family.

Bhima and Hibimbi
Love the stories where there are fighting scenes! Bhima as of right now in the reading is my favorite one! He is a freaking giant and is super strong! I just thank that's awesome. However I really like how they set up the scene that the rakshasa saw him and didn't want to kill him any more. The Hibimbi seemed like a pretty bad dude, but Bhima was way to strong for him. I think that I could write this story from either the rashaka wife or from Hidimbi. It would be cool to hear the story for the rashaka because in both ways she doesn't want her new love to die in front of her and even if the her brother just said that he was going to eat her she might still not want to see him die.. I don't really know what kind of emotional type connection they had but I could see her maybe being upset about that. Also the way there son was already grown up with in the first hour was kind of tripy to me.

"Ghatotkacha":Source

Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part A

Amba 
Pretty interesting story. Thought it was kind of comical that she just left a place where she would have been basivcally a queen. However, It was kind of sad the way the person that she loved ended up being so cold toward her. That and she went off the deep end and blamed it all on Bhishma. I could somewhat agee with it but at the same time I don't at all. I am really interested on when she recarnates into a male to kill Bhishma.

Pandavas and Kauravas
 This was the first story that I liked in this section of story's so far. The story is basically describing the two different families of princes. It talks about how the blind king didn't like his brothers son's since they were better than all of his son's. What intrigued me about this story was that they said they trained together and had competitions and the Pandavas always ended up winning or at least one of the brothers always win. So my idea with this story is that I could create a story that had all of the princes in a competitions against each other and tell what all they did in the challenges. I think this would be a cool side story and have some depth about the blind king and his family.
Another side story of this in when they talk about how the Pandavas boys go there I thought it was really cool how they described the sages at the end and all of there abilities that they were told about having. I think I could incorporate this into future stories.

"The Pandavas":Source

Reading Notes: Ramayana: D

Indrajiti
 This was a pretty cool story. It has a lot going on in this story. Rama is basically defeated by Ravana's son named Indrajit. So Indrajit has magical power that he uses basically to win this battle. Once it tuns dark he turns himself  invisible and rains like snake magic arrows to kill everyone. This leaves Rama and Lakshmana in the dirt where they are basically almost dead. Everyone loses hope because their leaders are dying. All the monkey's want to go home. Sita also gets captured again (Seems to be a common occurrence in the story's). By the end of the story a guy called Garuda comes in like an angel and heals everyone with his magic and they recommence the war. I think I could tell it from Indrajitei's point of view. I kind of like to write stories from the other side. But probably write the way that the battle happened as more of a inner personal way like maybe from Rama's mind and what he was thinking. Place a one on one fight with him and Indrajiti when he is invisible maybe.

Kumbhakarna
 A very interesting story. I read a of wiki post about this story when I was reading it. I think it really cool that the dude is a freaking giant that has to sleep for 6 months before he is woken up. However I dont think they came enough of a story before they killed him. I would definitely tell the story from the view point of one of the rakshasas or Kumbhakarna himself. Just imagine being in the shoes of this lumber jack of a guy, Has to sleep for 6 months just to be woken up early to fight a war then get your head cut off. That would be cray cray.

"The raskshasas wake Kumbhakarna: Source

Feedback Focus

1. Copy-and- paste - I liked this one a lot. By the time I finished the reading this strategy was able to give me a lot of commenting questions and just general ideas to ask about the story. I this also really great since I was able to really take time on the paragraph I was one and write my idea underneath it to have specific details that I wanted to retain in what I just read. 

2. Use a timer-This strategy was able to give me a lot of focus on what I was reading. Since I was only giving myself so long to finish the story I was able to focus on what I was reading. I found it kind of hard to finish the time just because I might want to go back and reread a part or go over something again if I wanted to. 

 

3. Reading Out Loud- I can see how this would be a good way to find mistakes in a story, but I was not able to really focus on the reading itself. I would find myself focusing more on trying to read out loud then actually reading the text I was given. I also found it hard to write notes on this because I wasn't able to really focus on what I was reading. 

I think I will use the copy and paste and use a timer techniques in the future to help me out not only in this class but in other future classes. 

"Focus":Source

Reading Notes: Ramayana Part C

Sugtiva and Hanuman 
Rama and Lakshmana traveled into a lake country in search of Sugriva a monkey king in exile. But they run in Hanuman which is a monkey god that can shape shift. They meet him while he was shifted into a beggar lake country.  After Hanuman realized hat he was talking to the two powerful brothers he befriends them in hoped that they will help get back Sugriva's wife and the kingdom he once ruled over. This story was pretty cool. I like how Hanuman can shape shift so I could us this in a lot of different ways.

The Burning of Lanka
This story was one of the more entertainign one's I have read. When Ravana order to have Hanuman's tail to be burned Sita prayed to the Fire lord to have the flame "be cool' to Hanuma. So indtead of burning his tail it stayed on fire but it did not burn him at all. He continued to go around Lanka until he burned it down. He thought that Sita had died in the fire but he fod he after sitting in the Ashoka tree.  I think that I can add a fighting seen in this to have some depth, or I could tell the story from an other monkey that heard the story from Hanuman once he returned.

Lanka on fire

Reading Notes: Rayamana Part B

Rama and Bharata
Bharata meets Rama in the jungle after being apart for years. Bharata gives the power of the government to Rama infront of the army so that he can return to Ayodhya. Rama refuses to return to the city becaue his fathers will was not completed. Jabali tell Rama that he doesn't need to listen to the will of the dead because he is dead and there is no after life so they do not need to waste their time with it. Rama countered to Jabali that nothing that he said was proven so he will continue completing the rest of his fathers will.


Lakshmana and Shurpanakha
after Shurpanakha left Rama she approached Lakshmana. He ended up offending her and attacked him. So he cut off her ears and and nose. Could recreate this fight in a where he cuts off something different and have some kind of conversation with he. Shurpanakha goes back and get her brother involved. Khara ends up having 14 rakshasa's to go back and fight them but Rama shoots all of them with celestial arrows. Also could illustrate this story in Shurpanakha's point of view would give it a nice twist.

Lakshmana cuts Shurpanakha

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Growth Mindset: Memes

Growth Mindset Memes

 "Connect with others to reduce stress" Web Source

I love this one so much. With my personal experience connection with other people help me so much to reduce my stress level. If I just sit around thinking about what is stressing me out without actually communicating it to other people my stress just gets worse and worse.
Connecting with my friends and family really helps me just forget about my everyday life that is stressing me out. Really like this picture

FeedbackThoughts

The article that most matched my personality was the one that talked about dealing with rejection. I have had a few moments in my life that I have been rejected pretty hard and that affected  the way I thought about myself and acted. Even to this day I still struggle with how a feel about myself in certain situations were I might doubt myself or feel that sense of rejection or already count myself out just because of that one moment of my life. However, this article really put some light in how to react to that kind of rejection and how to deal with it if I ever feel it again. 

I think I could really benefit from working on how to be a mirror for people. I am not notorious for giving good feedback to people. I would like to blame it on the fact that I haven't been in many situations that warrant my feedback. I think that would be a false assumption of myself, because in all honestly I run from alot of situations when they want feedback from me. So in many ways this article was very good for me in learning how to grow in being a mirror for people.

Personally I take negative feedback pretty well. I don't think of myself has a perfect person or someone that has reached the peak of my abilities of anything. I have always been taught that there is always room to grow in everything that we do. In result of being taught that as a little kid I think I fair pretty well when it comes to negative feedback. The think that I think I need to work on when I get negative feedback is that when it comes from a family member or someone that is my friend. When geting feedback from them about really anything I really have to breath and take it in as if I don't know them because I try to be the best person for them and when they point something out to me that I thougt I did my best on it frustrated me a lot of the time.

"Negative feedback is coming" Web Link