Your past is your greatest asset as a learner. Successes, failures, and everything in between—these experiences make us who we are. Together, we have decades (maybe centuries) of valuable experience and expertise in many career fields, higher education, community, civic engagement, raising families, military service, and much more.
To set the stage for exploring our academic and career futures in this course, we must first recognize and appreciate our own past. Begin by viewing Dominic Colenso’s TEDx talk “The Power of Telling Your Own Story†(11:47 mins), below.