Key Levels Of Self Identity

No matter how much a person desires to live according to their personal autonomy, he or she will never escape the influence of societal forces. Explicitly or subtlety, these forces shape our individuality. One intriguing manner that these societal forces manifests itself in is our name. As Ruth Graham writes, “It’s becoming increasingly clear today that names carry a wealth of information about the world around us, the family we arrived in, the moment we were born—and that they mark us as part of cultural currents bigger than we realize.” Names alone provide evidence that individuals are made by interactions with social institutions and groups. Ultimately, the inescapable nature of society’s influence demands individuals to ponder how much personal autonomy is actually autonomous and to what extent does the pursuit of personal autonomy lead to a life of emptiness and vanity.

Self-evaluation or “self-leadership” (Runn, 2011) forms a critical part of a leaders repertoire and some key blocks of the foundation for this persons leadership. If someone can ultimately say that they fully understand themselves, they will find it much easier to understand others around them.

Lately my mornings are spent getting up between 5:30am and 6am. I get myself ready, I never look fantastic just passable, and I go to work. Part of my morning routine is getting my dog, Donovan, ready for the early part of his day as well. We go to the yard for his bathroom routine, we go inside where I feed him his diet dog food and inject him with insulin, we go upstairs where I place a new diaper wrap around his mid-section (dogs with diabetes leak, who knew?), and he goes back to bed to sleep beside my husband. After we say our goodbyes I head to work, or school, or whatever adventure life has for me that particular day. Rinse, wash, repeat. I had no idea when I was in my teenage years that my life at 32 years old would be a tattooed, married, full time working, full time schooling, boring, Puerto Rican, animal lover. Well, the animal loving part I knew since I was maybe 2.

society and what is expected of us in line with our gender, class and culture?

Personal identity is essential in the human experience. Identity is complex and can be broken down into two main groups: introspective identity, and bodily identity. Introspective identity is based off of the groups, mentalities, or beliefs that you align yourself with, and bodily identity is based off of the physical side of yourself. Whether physical or introspective, your identity impacts every action you take. Whether choices ranging from what colors you prefer to which college you want to attend are primarily based off of your introspective identity, which is a combination of both memory and consciousness, physical identity impacts how others perceive you. Consciousness is mainly the awareness of bodily identity as well as continuous introspective identify, while memory is awareness of introspective identity. These two different facets of identity are imperative in the distinction between bodily identity and introspective identity. In means of personal identity introspective identity (which is evident in memory), is essential, while bodily identity (based partially in consciousness) has less credit.

A self-leader is confident and is usually giving themselves positive self-talk. Over that, a self-leader should easily be able to improve and get better from feedback.

One can be influenced by various factors such as culture, media, interest, friends, experiences, and beliefs. Although the most significant impact on my identity is my family, as it has affected my morals, personality, and occupational identity.

Individual identity is constructed by many things, ranging from perceptions from others to perception of self, and is constantly changing as life’s complexities increase. Fear, or the distressing feeling of anxiety and angst, is also an unlikely but extremely important component of composition of identity as one gets older, for it is fear that shapes identification and interaction, especially in a group setting. A case where this is apparent is within Predominantly White Institutions, or PWIs, and the interactions between dominant and minority, namely Black, students. In a social setting where stereotypes and discrimination exists due to a variety of existing cultures and lifestyles, it is fear that forms social groups, guides

A part of my identity that I believe is necessary to know and understand about me is that I am a leader. To me leadership is doing what needs to be done and making sure it gets done, showing people the what the right decision and action to take is, and being someone that people respect, follow and trust. There are two ways a person can lead, by example and by showing people how the task at hand should be done and they follow. Also a leader is respected, with the ability to tell people what needs to get done. I exert both of these traits in multiple places in my life.

According to Neck and Manz, Self-leadership is defined as “the process of influencing oneself to establish the self-direction and self-motivation needed to perform” [3] Boyatzis’s theory can be strengthen by Neck and Manz’s in the way that: the two main elements of this theory are Self-talk and mental imagery. Self-talk is what we covertly tell ourselves, it suggests the potential of self-talk as a self-influencing tool for improving personal effectiveness [3] Boyatzis’s model

An article summary of Guillen, L., Mayo, M., & Korotov, K. (2015). Is leadership a part of me? A leader identity approach to understanding the motivation to lead. Leadership Quarterly, 26, 802-820.

most likely see me as innocent and precious where as if I am a teacher

Self-leadership is defined as the process people influence themselves to establish self-direction, self-management, and self-motivation (Neck & Manz, 2010).

Most people spend their time on the outer activities of life when in fact they should be maintaining a reasonable balance between inner consciousness and outer activity.

Students of leadership courses typically emerge with an understanding of how various leaders faced difficult situations, implemented tools and strategies, and experienced the results. Scholars and practitioners have suggested that this outside-in method to understanding what it means to be a leader is not serving our graduates, organizations, and society well. Several recommend an inside-out approach whereby the student is encouraged to consider and understand the self as the basis for developing effective leadership qualities. This paper explains the rationale behind developing a course predicated on the idea that accurate assessment of one’s own identity (e.g. strengths, weaknesses, traits, values, beliefs and motivators) results in better individual, team, and organizational performance. The primary assumptions for the course development and execution are that: (a) our behavior does not always align with the qualities of good leadership, (b) we may not be aware of how others perceive our leadership, (c) others judge our effectiveness as leaders, whether we are leading people or not, and (d) self-awareness is a tool for developing leadership qualities within the organizational context.