One Small Step Into A Larger World

I recently read a blog entitled A New Learning Opportunity by Mr. Karl Fisch. In the early sentences, Mr. Fisch informs that, just this week, he started helping as a “Community Leader” (Fisch 1) for “ADVIS Cohort of Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson’s Powerful Learning Practice initiative” (Fisch 1). Mr. Fisch also called it the ADVISPLP Cohort for short. Well, in this blog, Mr. Fisch talks about how he will be helping with online discussions in this project and, because of his vast experience online, he will be helping with the technicalities of the cohort as well. Mr. Fisch talks about his complete excitement at starting something new and different than what he is used to. He won’t be going into “face-to-face meeting’s” (Fisch 1) like he is used to doing; in fact, he’s barely met any of the people he will be working with. But he is ready and able to take on this new challenge to help other people and to learn something new for himself. Mr. Fisch said that he is also nervous about the new step that he is taking because he’s not a very social person (Fisch 1), but he is enormously excited about this opportunity to learn more about himself and about other people. What really intrigued me about this blog was Mr. Fisch’s excitement and enthusiasm about this project. I have rarely seen or heard anybody so enthusiastic about something new. Of course Mr. Fisch, or anyone for that matter, is going to be nervous about anything new that is to happen to them, but generally, people like change. Change is a part of life and most people usually get excited for change. Sometimes, things go bad, but also, sometimes, things go great, or better than they expected. Mr. Fisch shows that he is ready to take this on and let whatever is going to happen, happen. I admire his bravery, if bravery is the right word for his reaction to this change and I think many people would aspire to react to change more like Mr. Fisch does.