10A

10a

response to Freak Factor.

The freak factor just like other readings we had before, teaching us how to be creative. But this topic is really interesting and thoughtful. I have never thought about this before. I mean, some of his ideas really helped me solved my confusion about some questions.

In summary, “The Freak Factor” by David Rendall suggest us being a freak. And he listed some facts and reasons to support his idea.

The first one is “what’s your problem?” David talked about the regular thoughts about personal problems. And explained how normal people deal with it.

In the second topic “what is my problem?” The author takes himself as an example explained that people who have problems could achieve success. And weaknesses may make a person special and make whom they are.

In the third topic, he explained his belief; “there’s nothing wrong with you”. Strength is connected to a weakness. He gives some real example to “disorganization” “dyslexia” “addiction” to support his point that weaknesses can also be strengths.

The fourth topic is “forget it: don’t try to fix your weaknesses”. In this topic, David gives four reasons about why don’t try to fix weaknesses. The main reason is “we all have limitation”.

The fifth one is “build on your strengths”. As what the topic says, it is about reason why you need to build your strengths.

The six topic is the focus “you can’t do both.” We cannot fix our weaknesses and build our strengths together. Wal-mart, Target, and Kmart are examples.

“Find the right spot” is the seventh one. It talks about if we want find success, we have to find our right direction first, a right position takes your strengths and makes it a great benefits.

In the next topic David talked about “the power of uniqueness”. The weakness makes you uniqueness, and your uniqueness makes you special. Be a freak.

The last one is about “putting your quirks to work”. how to use your special uniqueness in doing things. Make them a positive effect to your life.

For me I really like this reading personally. I will say David’s suggestion is all valid to me. There are top three in my mind.

The first one is the “there’s nothing wrong with you”. I believe every characterizes in a person makes who they are. And make them as an individuals to the world. Nobody is perfect. I really like the examples he give in the article. I have read a sentence before: While god close a door, he opens another one. I don’t know if it is well translated, I read this sentence in Chinese though. A perfect person does not existing. The weakness can also be strengths. However, I guess only some people can make their weakness to their strengths. That’s why, there are so many people in the world but not so many successful people.

The second one is “Don’t try to fix your weaknesses”. David listed some reason to explain his idea. I cannot agree more with him. I have tried to fix my weakness before, when I first noticed that I am not good enough. But the thing is, my trying is never success. Therefore I figured out people is not easy to changing. After reading this article, I know people are not able to changing.

The last one I like the most is “The power of uniqueness”. The weakness can be strengths. This is what I learn from this topic. Being special is never easy. People feel uncomfortable when they feel they are not like other people. me too. I usually trying to think like others, and do thing like others. But I lost something more important to me. It is my creative thinking. stay in special is not easy. The uniqueness makes you special. This difference makes you shining. People will start to notice there is a person like you in the community. That way, being success is a lot easier.

I think my main weakness is careless. I never considered too much before doing things. Therefore some important points will miss. But because I am careless, I am braver to do things. Maybe it is because I never think before doing one thing, I am good at figured out things out when I do it. and at that moment, I can come up with some funny or special idea. They are always come out suddenly while working. Therefore, usually my works came out with a totally different with what I said in the beginning.