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Acquiring Essential Skills

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I have acquired the essential skill of appreciating and understanding different perspectives. There are a couple ways to acquire this essential skill. For example, having to put yourself in other people's shoes, being able to argue the other person's perspective, suspending your judgement and opening your mind to receive the whole perspective, as well as responding and reacting to evaluation ethically. I believe I have acquired this essential skill by displaying some of the characteristics that I have listed above.

I have demonstrated this skill numerous time in the ROTC program at Perris High School. Being a leader in ROTC you have to be able to listen and understand your cadets and what they have to say. For example, I had a cadet that

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