Week 03 Journal

The main ideas and topics of week 03 deals with Root Cause Analysis, which is an approach or technique use in identifying the underlying causes of an incident which happens in our everyday life or setups so that effective solutions are implemented. It helps find the underlying cause of the problem and addresses, what happened, why it happened and find solutions to eliminate or reduce its impacts.

Misconceptions, bias, ignorance of global issues was also address by Hans and Ola Rosling, Their discussion centered on how we can be better informed about the world.

What spark interest is how ignorant we all are, our neighborhood where we grew up gave us a very biased view of how life is on this planet, personal bias that is the different experiences we all have had from our communities and people we meet. With the four rules of thumb, we could probably answer better than the chimps, because the chimps cannot do that.

Why social innovation is becoming more prevalent in today’s world are that it has thought us a whole new way of doing things, strategies, concepts, ideas that meet the social needs from education to community development and health.

Jeffrey Thompson’s article, the Gospel, and social innovation brings to fore our social responsibilities as God children on earth. We need to discover our calling which is God’s given gift to rendered service to mankind. John Calvin “argued that God endows each of us with particular talents and gifts and that it is our calling”

“How often in life do we set our own roots into the soil of life and become root bound? Under these conditions we too must struggle to make progress. Oh, change is hard! Change can be rough”. Marvin J. Ashton This fearful change has enlightened my mind to be self-reliant, to able to do things on my own and never depend on someone.