Yesterday Connexion 1 group made its presentation and I would like to flash three phrases that more or less resume the idea we wanted to show to the audience:
Based on Maslow's and Meyer's work about human needs, we look at the model and thought about self actualization, we described it as satisfaction, well being, we started focusing on happiness as our need.
Whilst media influence is relatively consistent across our different cultures, the idea of happiness has less focus on individuation, and prioritizes community and family.
The goal is to find harmony between non materialistic pursuits and material needs, to have enough variety to keep us alive. Is our desire to consume which underpins the consumer culture, industry plays on these desires by offering to each individual the promise of happiness with vast choices, suggesting that the fulfillment we pursue can be bought.
For the presentation I am going to be reading the conclusions part, I think I selected this part in order to have more time to fix a few things from the processing program I prepared. These are the conclusions we made:
Happiness is not fixed, it changes from day to day and external influences play a part.
It is different for each individual
happiness is not an entity, but a by product of relationships, experiences and pursuits
Happiness requires effort and some understanding of self
Internal or subjective mood, emotions and feelings affect happiness as well as external influences
Media communications influence our understanding, and affect our perceived connections between money and happiness
Happiness is subject to constant influence from media, culture, politics, enviroment (personal and physical) and history.
The meaning of this project wasn't clear at the beginning, not for me and for some of the members in my group. A group project when we should be thinking about our project proposal and our thesis seemed to be fitted hardly in this 6 weeks project but once its over I can say that it would have been worse to fit it later on when we are pointing to a defined direction as group projects, as I discovered with this one, can change your view on certain things at the time to approach new projects.
It is interesting in the way we approached this project as a group that at the beginning we were making research on our own, this turned in a lot of resources to have a look at and it seemed to work because the following weeks we were looking in others research and finding what personally suited us in relation to the theme. At the time we were preparing the presentation is when all the ideas and conclusions came up together this way we made a presentation full of content, research and useful links. From the rest of the group presentations and ours I take the area each group were looking at, we had various keywords like colors and happiness seemed like we all started in the same position but we all took a different way.
At the time of facing a group project, what I have learned from this is that it is not necessary to take personal risks as long as each group knows its strengths and weakness at the time of selecting a task to do inside the group. This will help on future group projects as I think for this one I took to much responsibility in order to improve my skills but it turned into time consuming at the end.
[Ovo]: Mgmt - Kids
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