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CRITICAL REFLECTION

Applying Your Skills to the Problem

Based on the skills you selected as strengths and areas for improvement, revisit the problem that you outlined
earlier. How might you better take advantage of your strengths as you work to solve your problem? And
how might improving the skills you identified as needing improvement help you work towards a solution
to your problem?

Evelyn knows she is strong at transferring (she can imagine her possible future
situations well enough to write an accurate “pros and cons” list) and exploring
context (she can see herself as a teacher in her community, and maybe a

business woman in her community, too). Evelyn is also good at managing
resources (her decision to attend school is to help ensure a stronger financial
future for her family). On the other hand, she can be shy, so she knows she
needs to work on inquiring, or getting up the courage to ask her advisor
and other key figures in her life questions when she needs to. Evelyn admits
that she’s been intimidated by the question of what major to declare and what
career to pursue, so she hasn’t demonstrated much curiosity about what additional
information might be most helpful as she considers her options.

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