A blog is about the influence of media and how little adjustments can help achieve your most ambitieus goals.
My name is Daphne Nierop, and welcome to DFreshWriting!
I am a twenty-year-old student-athlete at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, but born and raised in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With a history in the major Sport-management, an education in Sport & Coaching and my interest in food, I thought it was time to switch some things around and try to combine everything together and started the study Journalism. I want to share my thoughts, experiences and lessons about life, because at the end of the road, I don’t want to be rich in millions of dollars (of course it will be helpful) but most of all, I want to be rich in experience. -> read more About the Author
Being Curious is the key to personal growth and knowledge is the key to power. Living in 2020, it’s no doubt that you are surrounded by information, but the question you should ask yourself is what to do with all that information? The world as it today is shaped around communication and technology and I understand that all those different sources like Google, Youtube, Instagram, and Facebook, can be overwhelming.
But as you dive deeper into the media, I think it is really interesting why some videos, books, music or podcasts go viral and others don’t? while all have great context. Besides the discussions of social media and its distractions on students, the media has some really good influences too. You can educate yourself without the need of a teacher. For me being an athlete, the media is an opportunity to discover new ways of training and to look up information about the people who inspire me. I gather my information by watching documentaries and speeches, by listening to podcasts and reading books about the people who I think I can learn from and who can teach me the tools to come closer to my goals. One of my favorite platforms to look up Ted.com, where I watch speeches of people all over the world with topics vary from technology and business to global issues. Recently I was looking for tips to help myself being more productive when it comes to studying, which turned out in watching this Tedtalk from Stephen Duneier in how to marginalizing big projects to help to achieve your biggest goals.
“What stands between us and achieving our Biggest Dreams, has far less to do with possession a magical skill or talent, but more to do in how to approach problems and making the decisions to solve them”
~ Stephen Duneier
So, talking about media, I believe there are a lot of benefits. You can reach faster to someone you haven’t seen for a long time, and information about your favorite artist is just a couple clicks a way. But the downside is that we are are always “on”. When was the last time you where “off” for more than 5 minutes? No phone, no computer or television. I mean, if I look at myself, I will not lie about the fact that my laptop is my absolute everything, it’s the brain of where I get my information from and it’s the heart of my creative thoughts. But in order to give myself really time to think, it is important to have some time alone, just yourself and your thoughts.
For journalists, the use of media is a good tool to focus more specifically on their target group, but because the internet is a place where everyone can share their information and opinions, it gets more difficult for journailsts to been seen as the only truth. I think it is a good thing that people have multiple sources know where they can get there information from, but it can also be hard in what to believe.
So, coming back to what we do with all the information on social media, I would like you to leave you with a qyestion; Are you the one that uses the media, or is it the media that is using you?
~ Daphne Nierop, DFreshWriting
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