Global Perspective

Having a global perspective is being able to view issues, events, or beliefs from others' points of view. Specifically, having a global perspective means being able to view these situations from the view of other nations or people from other cultures. Global perspective is important because having one is imperative to understanding how and why other cultures act. When an issue arises and people from other parts of the world want to help, you need global perspective to act in a way that the suffering people would appreciate and find moral.

There are unique benefits to studying abroad that are unable to be attained through normal schooling at home. Particularly, to directly experience a new culture that you are interested in is unique in studying abroad. I believe there are two major obstacles before studying abroad. First of all, the cost of traveling to the country of your choice is expensive and raising money as a college student is challenging. Second of all, finding a country that you both: desire to travel to and incorporates studying your major can also be challenging. Specifically for me, a STEM major, only a select few countries would interest me to travel to and also include classes that allow me to continue studying my major. Because of these things, I am not really interested in traveling abroad. Therefore, to gain a global perspective, I believe the next best thing would be to simply take the classes FSU provides us with.

True Leadership

To me, the leaders we see today all typically share somewhat similar traits and these traits are what I believe makes a leader. Intelligence is key to leadership because the ability to use knowledge in order to better the people you serve, I think, is one of the most important tasks a leader should face. In that also lies a second trait: compassion. A leader should feel a desire to create the best for others, the people he serves. Lastly, I believe boldness can be one of the most effective traits of a leader because a confident leader's attitude is contagious and can make the people he serves feel confident as well. Leadership is the ability to use each of these attributes and more to create optimal opportunities and situations for his/her people.

A good political leader must obviously have sufficient knowledge of government and politics, but also about his/her people. A good political leader listens to the desires of the people and reflects on their feelings, eventually deciding if what they want is best for their sake, not his/her own. I was once a coach at a summer sports camp for elementary school kids. As their leader, I did my best to listen to what games they wanted to play, but first I would introduce them to games in order for them to be able to experience them all. This way, I thought they would remember which games they liked the most and when it was their choice, there was no doubt in their answers.