How to determine someone's BOLDness

[Gaurav Agrawal]

So after discussion on Friday I was thinking about what we had done during class and I thought it was interesting to note that something that is "bold" in one person's mind may not be considered bold in another's. Thus, we cannot and should not judge what was written on the cards. I know someone already mentioned this during discussion, but I thought we could get a longer discussion going on this thread.

 

What do you guys think? Is it right to judge people's boldness based on our worldview? Just because I see something as lame, to another, it could be the most frightening or courageous action out there.

[Dong Liu]

I think boldness is just someone doing something that people normally would not do. Of course different people define boldness differently, but as long as someone has done something not ordinary or common, i would think that is boldness.

[Christopher Sangkyun Park]

Boldness is COMPLETELY based on the person. The definition is being able to take risks and be courageous. For different people, the concept of risk taking would be different as well as for what is classified as courageous. It depends solely on the person because the definition of courage is the ability to do something that frightens SOMEONE. That could be anyone. What some people find courageous, others may not.

[Anabel Meza]

True, someone's boldness may be someone else's habit; therefore, I do not think we can judge a person's boldness. There is no static scale of boldness or a certain degree of boldness. I think it all depends on a person's perception. If that person thinks their action is bold then it should be considered bold, since they know themselves than any other person.

[Jacob Adler]

I also agree with the last few comments. People can have very different life experiences and therefore have done entirely different bold things. I think the comparison is not between two random people's bold cards and seeing which one is bolder, but should rather be to realize that our peers think in different ways and the way we interpret being bold is based on our different upbringing.  The uclabold.org website really doesn't give any instructions on what to write or what they mean by bold. I also remember Mrs. Friedman talking about how the method of presenting the project at the Fowler had yet to be decided. This makes me think that they don't know what trends to expect on the cards or what the purpose of the project really is. I think they are waiting to collect a bunch of cards and hope by reading some answers they will discover the meaning of the project and therefore how to display it at the Fowler.

[Michelle Yoon]

Exactly; I totally agree with you. It is wrong to decide for another person whether his or her admittance is bold or not. Each individual has a different perspective and had different experiences. Boldness may be defined differently depending on who one is referring to. I find it rude to judge someone without knowing him/her first.

[Kelly Ronimus]

Good Question! I feel the same way. What I wrote on my Boldness card, someone else might think is really lame. I don't feel like it is right to "judge" someone on that type of question. That is not the reason for this project.

[Hyun Jo Kim]

I think being bold really has to do with all your experiences and the events that one has gone through. Most of it is based upon perspective, and it really isn't fair to judge if one person's boldness is brave enough. Doing something bold for me is getting out of procrastination, which might be a simple task for a lot of people. For me, it takes such a huge amount of effort to stop procrastinating that I tend to reward myself too much for getting work done earlier. 

 

Another example of something bold might be something that happened yesterday. I went to Little Tokyo to take on Orochan's Special Two Challenge. For those who don't know, the challenge is to eat an EXTREMELY spicy ramen in under thirty minutes. The wall of fame only had around 30 people over the past 3 years, so it is something that is very hard to do. In that note, I also failed, but even attempting to do so would be considered bold by a lot of my friends, since most of them avoided the challenge.

[warren hardie]

I think it is really interesting to see how different people perceive bold. What it is to them and how they describe it on a tiny little index card. What really stuck out to me was that someone’s perspective of bold was completely different than mine.  Something that I myself thought was easy and fun can be a huge challenge for others. This just goes to show you that everyone struggles and accomplishes things on different levels and that it is not what other people think, but what you think is bold.

[Cynthia Wang]

Like many others have mentioned, whether an action is bold or not is a very subjective matter. There's also the question of whether an action is "physically" bold, like skydiving for the first time, or "mentally" bold, like asking out the person you like. With the project, I feel that people like to be unique and clever in their answers, and sometimes that doesn't come across as a "serious" answer to others, so it's difficult to judge if someone did or did not take the project seriously.

[Kevin Wang]

Everyone's got their own unique background that shapes who they are and what they perceive to be bold. A few years back my friends got me to learn how to skate and had me skate down bruinwalk. That was arguably one of the scariest and boldest things I had ever done, but to my friends, who have been skating for a long time, it was an everyday ride. I definitely think boldness cannot be judged by another.