Wga - Number 8 Wire Mentality

 Hello people! Today I will be blogging about The number 8 wire Mentality we did in wga! Everyone in our class and I will be sharing you guys what this 8 wire mentality thing is about. 

I will be sharing you guys what this is so I'm sorry If I just copied and pasted the whole doc in here...

What Is It? 

Number 8 wire is a gauge of steel wire often used in rural fencing. 

Wire fencing used to cost a lot of money. Farmers couldn’t afford to  fence the whole farm, so they would mainly put fences around gardens, crops  and orchards to stop stock from ruining them. 

In the 1850s, cheaper steel became available, which meant that wire fencing was also  less expensive. The fencing came in different sizes called gauges. The preferred gauge was  called number 8 wire. It is now known as 4.00mm gauge wire. 

New Zealand Attitudes 

In the past, number 8 wire was widely used in New Zealand. Remote farms had rolls  of the wire on hand. It was hard for some of these isolated farms to get new supplies,  meaning farmers needed to make do with what they had. Number 8 wire and other scrap  materials were often used in creative ways to solve problems. 

New Zealanders became known as having a can-do attitude. They often needed to think  outside the box to solve a problem. This ability to make do and fix things with what  was available became known as the ‘number 8 wire mentality’. It is also referred to as  ‘Kiwi ingenuity’. 

Many inventors used this attitude to make do and give things a go, resulting in some  interesting new inventions. 

• The jetboat

• Electric Fencing

• Bungy Jumping

• The Eggbeater

This is a term used to describe the 'can do' attitude of many New Zealanders. A can-do attitude is one aspect of (choose the best answer)

1. Commitment

2. Achievement

3. Resilience

4. Respect

Next, rate yourself on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 is best) in terms of several elements of resiliency, including:

Support from other people in your life.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Ability to accept yourself for who you really are.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Your confidence in your ability to cope with adversity.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
How good you are at communicating and interacting with others in times of stress.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
How good you are at facing challenging problems in life and solving them systematically.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Ability to cope with your emotions in the face of adversity.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10

Add up your total score and review your ratings on each element. Think about what made you give a rating a lower score and what you could do to get the score closer to 10. Doing this exercise will help you to recognize where you are in terms of resilience and identify where you can improve from your current state of resilience.

By the end of this week, write a post for your student blog about an example of how you have shown how you have shown resilience.

Anyways as you can see there we were also asked some few questions to rate ourselves to 1-10..

Anyways that's all for today's blog! I'm sorry I didn't wrote anything that much but hopefully you enjoyed reading today's blog!