The classmates who read Susan Scott’s article, “Fierce Conversations,” responded mostly by summarizing and putting Scott’s ideas into their own words. There were also many cases of classmates offering their opinions on the material (overwhelmingly agreeing 
) as well as examples from their own lives that illustrate some of Scott’s ideas. The process by which classmates are associating with the material is evident in their responses and we can see how the information, according to them, is impacting their lives.
Outerbodyboi, in their comment “Thoughts on fierce conversation,” describes their association with Scott’s topic and offers a example from their own life saying: It’s important to hold your ground, and be fierce with people, but I also believe that this can be done in a controlled way. It’s like my old football coach used to say, be agressive but also be under control.” Here Outerbodyboi has related to the material and shows that they wholeheartedly agree with Scott’s statement. They seem to be displaying am overall agreement with Scott’s points, and are even fitting the information into their life.
In “my thoughts on fierceness,” Outerbodyboi goes on to muse about Scott’s many points on effective communications maintaining fierce, “real” conversations. They say “it isn’t always that easy to remain in a balance where I am both listening and expressing. This imbalance leads to the closing off of the mind at times.” This material seems to be opening an avenue for Outerbodyboi to look at themselves from the outside and gain new insights to their own communicative style. Masr27 shows, in their comment “Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott!,” a similar approach in confirming Scott’s idea through introspection: “Through my own life experience and analyzing my conversations, I certainly can see the trend of the lack of authenticity resulting in failure.”
I think that classmates here are primarily associating with the article and able to draw examples from their lives or look at the past in a new light, having learned from the reading. Saboy82 talks about a past job interview in terms of Scott’s principles: “not being myself, my conversation was false and not fierce. I never did get that job” (“Fierce Conversations 3.2”). They are reconstructing their memories in terms of their new learning showing that they seem to have truly internalized these messages. In their next comment, “Fierce Conversations 3.3”, they show this more saying “if I have more fierce conversations I will have a relationship or job for a even longer period of time rather blaming others for my failures.” The connection Saboy82 draws only solidifies the argument that they have learned the benefit of, and now almost strive to emulate, Scott’s “ferocity.”
From reading these classmates comments, I can only conclude that everyone agreed with this article and has been able to meaningfully apply it to their lives. Classmates seem to be able to easily look at themselves critically and find meaningful advice from Scott’s article to actually improve their lives. In terms of creating their own identities, classmates responded to different aspects of Scott’s article, showing their particular areas of personal interest and their individuality in different approaches. The article definitely seems to have provided these classmates with a powerful new tool in their newfound “ferocity” as well as the ability to think critically about the effectiveness of their “exhalations.”
