A World We Dare to Imagine Part 3

Global Diversity Initiative

Our mission is to gradually educate all the youth in the world about how other people less privileged than them live in developing countries so that one day they can take action and start to create charitable organizations that strive to help unite the planet.

In my experience, I’ve seen that many people in developed countries have become much more self-centered and focused on their own personal success which has a negative overall effect on the world. With less and less people actually going out of their way to help those who are disadvantaged it makes it harder for those less privileged to become successful.

What my organization plans on doing is implementing one class for students in elementary school that show and teach them about other developing countries to have them become more aware of what other children go through. In addition to that, the classes would also take students out to help fund raise for charitable organizations dedicated to the betterment of the planet. But teaching children once and then hoping that they continue to help people and the planet is still a fool’s dream. After, having the interactive class as children, my organization also plans to implement modern history courses that teach students about the current events regarding many developing countries.

The whole mission would be to have students from a young age become a lot more understanding of the environment around them. Hopefully, they can understand their own privilege and use that to help each and every person they see in need. 

A World We Dare to Imagine P1

I've grown up with many things handed to me and have generally gone with the flow of everything around me. Which is why I've never really given a thought of how to improve upon current social and environmental issues. However, realizing that it is my attitude that has led me to become much more "self-focused" leads me to believe that changing the planet requires changing people first.

In my opinion, the first step to changing the world is first by changing the mindset of people. What I mean by changing a persons mindset is that there aren't too many people nowadays, myself included, that go out of their way to help people or the environment. I believe that most people live their lives apathetic to the changes in their environment and if they see someone that needs help they will more often than not just ignore that person. To add to that, lately, I've seen that people have become much more skeptical of those that need help. Instead of noticing someone in need they see someone that could potentially be posing as a homeless person just to get a few quick bucks. This skepticism hurts the people that truly need the most help and its all a matter of changing someones perspective of the world to change things for the better.

There are all kinds of issues that plague this planet and its tough to just zero in on one specific issue and correct it which is why I believe that teaching kids at a very young age to be charitable and respect the planet for future generations would be an immense help to better the planet overall. If the average person becomes more inclined to help those they see in need those people that have huge plans to change the world, like Jacqueline, would have access to so many more resources that the chances of succeeding would be much higher.

A Procrastinators Dream

I love to sleep and as a student there are times where I can't get a full nights rest because of a paper or upcoming midterm. That's when I start to rely on less sleep and more napping throughout the day. Funny enough, there is a time to this kind of sleeping and its known as Polyphasic sleeping. Most of us are accustomed to what is known as Monophasic sleep, aka sleeping once a day for an extending period of time. However, I recently stumbled upon different methods of sleeping through a Buzzfeed experiment that people have found to be useful in their own lives. The two methods are

• Biphasic Sleep
• Polyphasic Sleep

Biphasic Sleep

Biphasic sleep is when you separate your sleeping into two distinct slots. For example, a common Biphasic sleep routine would be to sleep at night for 4.5 hours and then have a 1.5 hour nap during the day. This routine saves you about 1.5 hours a day from a normal 8 hour Monophasic sleep cycle. The entire belief behind these systems is the thought that humans can sustain themselves with less sleep if they follow different patterns like these. 

Polyphasic Sleep

Polyphasic sleep takes Biphasic to the next level. This is when you segment your sleep even further but while using 20-minute naps instead of long naps. One crazy Polyphasic cycle is known as the Uberman. Using the Uberman cycle you reduce your total amount of sleep to just 2 hours a day with six 20-minute long naps! Doctors do not recommend these programs because they believe that this is in essence sleep deprivation and in the short and long term you will be doing yourself harm. However, some people who have gone on to using Polyphasic sleep cycles seem to function just fine within their everyday lives and only cite tiredness within the first week of adapting to this new way of sleeping. 

I thought that this was a real interesting subject to look into and there are tons of anecdotal evidence of people who have thrived while using this, but almost all doctors can agree that this is probably not the best thing for a person. They believe that humans are only meant to be monophasic sleepers. But as a student finding different ways to optimize sleep in order to gain more hours to be able to do homework does sound pretty appealing