After arriving from Tambopata (Jungle) we came back to the “electronic” world. Even though in the Innovation Academy (IA) we try not to be seating down all day, we still rely on our computers, meaning that we sit down due to conformability issues. But today wasn’t a normal day; we had our POL rough draft presentations.
You are probably wondering what POL are! Well let me explain this new idea to you. In the IA each semester we have to create our own “Presentation Of Learning”. Explaining everything that we have learned, problems we faced, solutions, stories, everything you can imagine. This helps us to reflect and keep on learning at the same time. Since this semester was just for our Documentary, Domenico and I had to present a POL together about our Non-Fictional Film.
We had been working on this presentation for about one-two weeks nonstop. I have always liked the idea of putting color and a lot of media with effects and making it look appealing and different. I guess that this was my first mistake; luckily I had this practice. I was so motivated to do a cool presentation that I forgot to match the effects, fonts and letters with my actual question an theme. Now I need to make my presentation a little more serious to make it more of a reliable source and not so playful with the entire cool effects that keynote has.
Then, Domenico and I are really motivated with this project. We wanted to share our learning to the whole world. We didn’t miss a single; we wanted the audience to be filled with information so they knew that we had been working hard and that we had placed time into this project. Once again, we got so concentrated on this that we didn’t realize that we where overwhelming the audience with info. Instead we should have placed only the key points, to make a presentation different from the other innovators and so everyone remembered the key aspects of what financial literacy was and kept focused on our presentation increasing their learning on our subject.
Then, our ideas weren’t building on as they should be. This is due to the lack of planning of the POL. We didn’t do a slide by slide plan but just a big plan of all the presentation. This also connects to the amount of reflection and anecdotes that we should have; balance is the key word.
I have been working on my changes to make my presentation on Thursday THE BEST!
Comentario personal sobre los estereotipos de un waterpolista
El waterpolo es un deporte donde el objetivo principal es anotar la mayor cantidad de goles al equipo contrario. No se puede tocar el piso y la pelota solo se puede agarrar con una mano con excepción del arquero. Para jugar waterpolo tienes que prepárate de una manera sobrehumana ya que es un deporte de alto contacto y de alto rendimiento haciendo que tu vida se amolde a este magnifico deporte olímpico. Los waterpolistas son personas que están preparadas tanto física como psicológicamente permitiendo que los niveles de cansancio del organismo lleguen a un nivel extremo y que el cuerpo tenga una adaptación biológica al cansancio creando un waterpolista de alta competencia con ciertos estereotipos.
Ser un waterpolista no es algo fácil. En primer lugar, un deportista de waterpolo debería de tener tres sesiones de entrenamientos diarios, cada una compuesta de 3 a 4 horas. En estas practicas los waterpolistas entrenan potencia y resistencia dentro del agua y asimismo el físico afuera del agua. También entrenan los ejercicios técnico-tácticos, es decir entrenan para llegar a la perfección de la técnica de los lanzamientos, pases, recepciones, entre otros. Elevarse del agua sin tocar el piso no es sencillo, por eso el atleta debe tener buen tamaño físico, midiendo entre 1.85m-1.95m en promedio y con una envergadura de mas del 100% y si es posible un 105% a mas es perfecto. Esto facilita al deportista a poder tener mayor capacidad de alcance afuera de la superficie del agua creando un tiro con mayor potencia y evitando que la pelota frene con el aire complicando al arquero. El peso de un atleta tiene la misma importancia. Un waterpolista debería pesar entre 90k-100k, lo cual parece una cantidad bastante elevada. No me malinterpreten, este peso no es en grasa, la mayor cantidad del peso es compuesta por los diferentes músculos del organismo. El waterpolo es un deporte que desarrolla una gran cantidad de músculos, desde la cabeza hasta los pies, se usan todos los músculos del cuerpo de alguna forma. Es por eso que un waterpolista debería tener aproximadamente un porcentaje de músculo de entre 50%-58%. De esa manera el deportista tendría las extremidades largas, seria lo suficiente mente pesado para que el oponente no lo mueva y resista los golpes y finalmente tendría un gran porcentaje de músculo dándole fuerza a su tiro y haciendo que su natación sea explosiva.
Segundo, al igual que el músculo, la grasa tiene mucho que ver con el cuerpo de un waterpolista. Un deportista profesional de waterpolo debe estar entre los 26 a 30 años de edad. Esto complica el resultado de grasa del cuerpo ya que se le hace mas difícil al organismo tener poca grasa por su manera de funcionamiento. El waterpolista debería tener entre 5%-10% de grasa corporal lo cual es difícil de alcanzar. Ya que los entrenamientos descomponen el cuerpo. Haciendo un trabajo de natación que alcance los 10k diarios el cuerpo puede llegar a tener ese porcentaje de grasa tan bajo. El cuerpo se adapta a los obstáculos que uno le pone, pero para que esto pueda pasar satisfactoriamente hay otras indicaciones físicas que tienen mucho que ver con el desarrollo del atleta. Uno debe tener los pliegues del cuerpo entre un 60, eso se logra con el entrenamiento diario y esta muy relacionado con los genes.
#WP11 / #AO11
A si mismo, la masa ósea (el peso del hueso) no debe ser mayor de 11%. No tengo intenciones de ser racista, pero genéticamente hablando la raza negra por lo general tiene huesos mas pesados es por eso que no hay tanta cantidad de atletas morenos en el waterpolo. El peso del hueso complica la natación del cuerpo haciendo que se pueda hundir en el agua fácilmente. Cabe mencionar, aun sabiendo este dato, que el mejor waterpolista a nivel mundial, Ivan Perez, es moreno.
Finalmente, ya que el waterpolo es un deporte de alto contacto y alto rendimiento, el deportista debe estar preparado psicológicamente. Esto es principalmente para que el cuerpo pueda resistir la exigencia de los entrenamientos, ya que los entrenamientos del waterpolo son anormales. La mente maneja al cuerpo, si el deportista piensa que lo puede logras, lo va a lograr, no hay espacio para mediocres en este deporte. De la misma manera es un deporte muy sacrificado. Al waterpolo se le tiene que dedicar grandes cantidades de tiempo, haciendo que el deportista sacrifique horas de sueño, su vida social, por parte su familia y hasta pueda afectarlo en el colegio. Estos atletas se levantan a las 4am para entrenar y se acuestan a las 12am después de terminar el ultimo entrenamiento del día, es decir que duermen tan solo 4 horas. Por eso tienen que estar preparados psicológicamente. De la misma manera, el waterpolo puede ser comparado con el rugby pero personalmente yo lo represento como una guerra acuática. En el partido vas a recibir muchos golpes, patadas, puñetes, codazos, cabezazos todo tipo de acciones que impacten el cuerpo. Esto se usa para desgastar al oponente, asustarlo y poder marcar un gol al desmarcarse con una patada. Es por eso que el atleta de alto rendimiento debe estar preparado muy bien psicológicamente haciéndolo que lleve a su cuerpo a una estación optima bloqueando todo lo negativo y absorbiendo lo positivo, creando a un líder que apoye a todo momento a sus compañeros de juego.
En conclusión, el waterpolo es un deporte que poca gente llegue a soportar, ya que sus niveles de fuerza, potencia y resistencia son altos, creando a un deportista de alto rendimiento que a la misma ves se incorpora con un deportista de alto contacto. Sus extractos de entrenamiento aeróbico y juego anaeróbico hacen que el deportista tenga estereotipos bastante únicos, creando a un ser único, un waterpolista.
I have been working on my IA (Innovation Academy) Documentary for about 1 month now. I am creating this documentary with Domenico, #innovator. In school they always tell you: Teamwork is a valuable skill, you have to know how to work with others. But you never actually use this skill at school, apart from the small projects or presentations that don’t have value. With the IA, this has changed completely. I got to extend my knowledge on the importance of teamwork.
For this documentary, we need to have great amounts of reliable footage containing: B-Rolls, Interviews, Narrator scenes, acting, etc. If we start looking at the Interview sections, to get a interview you need to ask the person or company before; I think that’s obvious. Then, the interviewee will give you a time period of when you can go. There’s when teamwork starts. Domenico is one of my Best Friends, so I know him well, he is the type of students that gets things done, that puts effort on to work and that tries his best always. But one of the things he has to improve is being punctual. What does this have to do with teamwork? Well, let me tell you a story. We had a meeting with Carsa at 4pm and I arrived at 3:50 and waited until 4 but Domenico didn’t arrive. So, Carmen from Carsa, asked me about the interview and if we were ready, I told here that we were and distracted her for about 10 minutes until Domenico arrived. Once he arrived we nailed the interview.
Then, Domenico is great at editing videos and I am not the best at it. Since we both know our strengths and limitations, I am the one who organizes the videos on folders by sections and ideas while Domenico starts the actual video and puts the effects, pasts them together, the subtitles, etc.
It is important that you know what you are good at! This will let you organize yourself better and be able to meet deadlines and keep up the quality of your work. For example: I am great at oral speaking even though my English is not the best but I don’t get nervous and know how to keep an audience focused; that’s why I am the one who interviews. On the other hand, Domenico likes to film, take pictures and knows how to edit well; so he is in charge of that section. When I write in charge I don’t mean that he is the only one that works on that, but its his main role.
Then, in life you are going to face many problems. Through this Documentary we’ve had to rewrite our script 3 times, part of our documentary erased, organization problems and some others. As a team we have overcome this misshapes and have gone ahead, working hard.
I would say that teamwork is a skill that you will need in every stage of your life. That’s why I am grateful that the IA is teaching me this skill now, so in the future I am an “expert” at it.
People learn differently, we are always trying to find the best way to learn new things. Since we are babies we start wanting to roll, walk and talk. Then, we start growing up and we want to learn how to paint, add and subtract. Once you get to my age (16), things start getting a little more complicated; life in general gets more complicated. You start looking for ways to make life easier and understand it better. Today in the IA (Innovation Academy), I learned how to learn.
Mr. Akin, our school principal, came to the IA to see what the “crazy ones” were doing. He found us on a oval discussing chapter 12 of “Naked Economics”. Immediately Mr. Akin decided to participate in our discussion and taught us something new: Learn Through Drawing.
I have to remember 10,000 things daily. Does that happen to you? The worst thing is that all those things are important (Math, Science, Waterpolo, Tasks, Homework, Reading, Tests, too many things!) and they all have a purpose!
The Solution so that you don’t forget them: Learn through Drawing
I have mentioned Learn through Drawing a couple of times now. But what is it? The subject is simple but effective. You draw the most important aspects of what you want to remember. Pictures can be more powerful than words. For example: For chapter 12 of naked economics, I drew a chef. Why? Because this chapter discussed the importance of specialization and I knew that a chef would make me remember this. Instead of writing a full word document about this chapter I knew that the chapter was about specialization, that you had to work on what you where best (because everyone is good at something) and that people need to rely on others at points of their life because you cant do everything yourself.
A drawing will stick in your mind for life, while a simple document will stick for about 1-3 days and then it will lose its importance because you will have 5 other documents. So why don’t you give drawings a try? They don’t have to be perfect, after all you are the one who needs to remember.
If you haven’t seen my blog before, I am creating a documentary for my Innovation Academy class that has to be related in someway with Economy. With my partner Domenico we decided that our unit question would be: "How does the lack of financial literacy affect Peruvian consumers?". We have already been at Carsa (electrodomestic store), Jockey Plaza (Mall), FDR campus (school), Plaza Lima Sur (Mall) and on the street handing out surveys. Today we had an interview with Enrique Diaz, president of Mercados de Capitales, Inversiones y Finanzas (MC&F).
We arrived at 8:30am to Pardo y Aliaga 680 oficina 302 - San isidro where Enriquez office was located. I have to admit that it was very confusing entering the building because the buildings had double number, making it be like a labyrinth.
Enrique welcomed us nicely and we started the interview. On our first interview we had some camera problems so we didn’t let this happen again and brought two professional cameras with their tripods. Enrique started to tell us how people in Peru are starting to have more knowledge about credit, loans, quotas, etc but that there was still a lot to keep on working.
I asked Enrique if he could explain to us the problem in the Peruvian culture related to the interest rates of the quotas or credit cards; he replied something that I had never heard before but made sense. Enrique started like this “People in Peru do something called ‘Carrusel’ this means that they take out a loan or credit card and just buy, buy and keep on buying without realizing their interest rates nor the amount of money they are investing, which generally is more than what they earn. People get this huge loan so they decide to get another credit card or loan to pay their first credit card. The cycle continues and the debts get bigger”.
This sounded so strange but interesting at the same time. Then, we asked Enrique if he wanted to give us and Lima any advice and he proofed his knowledge once more by replying: “I recommend parents, couples, anyone to grab a paper, sit with his family or alone and write the amount of money that they have. Then write how you are spending your money and make a plan. This is especially important if you have a family, it doesn’t matter if you have small children, still do it. It will help them realize when they can ask to go to the movies, to go eat an ice-cream or when they need to wait or not ask for so many things due to the families economy”. All of this relates with how you relate to money or in other words Financial Literacy.