Learning Launch

Challenge    My challenge is that I used to think a lot about what I am going to do, and I base my decisions  on things I don’t know if are correct, also I have a lot of ideas, but the problem is that I don’t  know how to test those ideas to know if they can function. A few years ago, I had to do a  project for a class at my school, and I had many different ideas about what to do. When I  chose my first topic the professor told me that was a good topic but maybe it was not the  best, so I decided to ignore my professor and keep working on the topic, I do that because  I thought that the topic was the easiest. I was wrong, everything starts going very difficult  because there wasn’t much information about the topic, so I start moving my idea with other  wrong ideas, at this point, I decide to change my topic to another new one.     Selection     The tool I chose was the learning Launch tool. This tool in doing small experiments to prove  our idea in the real world, we learn and we improve. I started to make experiments with my  new topic, like how hard will be to get information, what the professor thinks about my new  topic, and how easy was for me to expose it. The experiment was cheap, basically was free,  I search for information on the internet, in the library of my school, or whit my professor, and  was fast, I dedicate two hours or three per day, I did a lot of experiments whit different topics  because it was free and fast, the results help me to modify my ideas or throw it away, I was  learning and improving on my project.       Application     I start to identify my problem; my topic was a little bit hard, so what I made first was to search  for information about topics, I made a list with the most interesting topics and the easiest  ones, what I do next asked my professor If my new options were correct, he helps to choose  the best topics and at the end, I have 3 different options, I start working on the three topics  while I was working I also show my project to my friends, classmates and my professor, they  give me their opinion about what they think was the best topic, and at the end, I have my  final topic.      So actually what I did was to help myself to choose a better topic, so what I did was a list  about topics that comply with two characteristics, that was interesting, that the information  about the topic was easy to get, my next step was to ask about the best of all my topics, and  when I finally have the three topics I started to test those topics with the people that are  going to judge my project, at the end I have my final topic.      Insight     The insights I get was about how to choose the best decisions and how to improve my ideas  to get the best one, doing different experiments to get information that helps me to improve  my ideas or to throw them away and focus on other ideas, my challenge at the beginning  was hard because I don’t know what other topic chose, but with this tool, the challenge  became an easy one, since that moment I start to do that kind of things when I don’t know  what I must do, this helps me to get more information to make better decisions not just in  my school also in my life.

Approach                                                                                                                                                        Honestly, since this moment I will start to use more the mind mapping tool. I think that tool  mixed with the learning launch tool can facilitate the search for information, and visualize it  in a better way, that help me to make better decisions.

