Question

Write and please share an experience in which you changed your way of thinking or your attitude about something or someone. Please be sure to share the actions you took to make this change as well as any people who supported you during this time. Your writing should be personal but formal and expressed in a 3-5 paragraph essay.
basically write about your inner journey and experience and overcoming of problems.
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Answer 1

Explanation:

In story terms, the outer journey refers to the things that we do, and a change in the physical world, while the inner journey refers to the way that we think, and a change in our attitudes.

These two journeys are, of course, connected and interdependent. From a psychological perspective, testing our hypotheses about the world through our actions and revising them in light of our experience serves to shape our future attitudes. Those attitudes then inform our future actions, which shape our attitudes, which inform our actions and so on.

From a story as strategy perspective, they are connected by the conscious wants and unconscious needs of your hero:

The ‘outer world’ journey that you are inviting your stakeholders to undertake relates to the actions they need to take to get something they want whether that is buying your product, joining your company, or making an investment.

The ‘inner world’ journey relates to the way that taking those actions to get the thing they want will satisfy the things that they need, and change their attitudes or sense of self.

Carefully considering the relationship between the outer and inner journeys inherent in your company’s story can significantly increase its effectiveness. It is these inner world journeys that inform those crucial networks of stories we believe that inform our “cultures of control”, ensuring loyalty and long-term custom from across your stakeholder groups.

So how can you make sure that the outer journey of your company story is maximising the effectiveness of your customers’, investors’ and employees’ inner journey? The answer lies in understanding plots…

Answer 2

Answer:

Although it might not have surprised you to hear that we can often predict people’s behaviors if we know their thoughts and their feelings about the attitude object, you might be surprised to find that our actions also have an influence on our thoughts and feelings. It makes sense that if I like strawberry jam, I’ll buy it, because my thoughts and feelings about a product influence my behavior. But will my attitudes toward orange marmalade become more positive if I decide—for whatever reason—to buy it instead of jam?

It turns out that if we engage in a behavior, and particularly one that we had not expected that we would have, our thoughts and feelings toward that behavior are likely to change. This might not seem intuitive, but it represents another example of how the principles of social psychology—in this case, the principle of attitude consistency—lead us to make predictions that wouldn’t otherwise be that obvious.

Imagine that one Tuesday evening in the middle of the semester you see your friend Joachim. He’s just finished his dinner and tells you that he’s planning to head home to study and work on a term paper. When you see him the next day, however, he seems a bit shaken. It turns out that instead of going home to study, Joachim spent the entire evening listening to music at a rock club in town. He says that he had a great time, stayed up late to watch the last set, and didn’t get home until the crack of dawn. And he woke up so late this morning that he missed his first two classes.