My Self Assessment Analysis

Humans have a fundamental tendency to seek positive information of themselves, namely engage in self-enhancing (Sedikides, 1993; Swann, Pelham, & Krull, 1989). However, individuals are also motivated to seek the subjective truth of themselves, namely engage in self-verifying. (Sedikides, 1993; Swann et al., 1989). Simultaneously, individuals struggle and deject to seek objective and accurate truth of themselves, namely engage in self-assessing (Sedikides, 1993). Self-assessment can occur through the process of self-awareness, where individuals become conscious about their behavior and thoughts and regulate according to their internal standards and values (Huggon, 2014).

Based on the Clifton Strengths Assessment my top five strengths are strategic, deliberative, learner, maximize and individualization. As an individual, I rarely look into my weakness. I believe that when your too focused on your weakness, you forget about your strengths. Everything the book said is true, and we need to take the time to look at our strengths and make it perfect. It is true that in this world or the school system, we are taught to look at our weakness and correct it so that we can become stronger in our life. This book brings out the truth that I longed to hear for a long time. Invariably, I hear my professor tell their students that for them success in life, they must practice and look at our weakness. This book proves it wrong because for us to become successful, we must stay to our strengths’ path.

I have a few weaknesses when it comes to school. One of my weaknesses is nervousness. I tend to get nervous when it’s time to take a test. Another weakness is thinking I will not succeed. I am always afraid that I will fail, and not move forward. I seem to always second guess myself when it comes to writing a paper or speaking in front a room full of people. I am working on each of my weaknesses.

“When it came to areas of organization, time management, planning, positive, and energy. These are a list of my weakness and I do feel I am very accurate with these weaknesses. Time management is so hard for me to get a hold of. I have been late for a lot of things in life but never doctor appointments for my son. I could definitely work on my positive visualization and optimism. Planning out my daily activities are never done probably because I am lazy. I don’t organize my life but I alike my home organized with things being where they should be. Lastly, my energy level is so bad I am surprised I made it through the Success Program. I suffer daily form low energy levels and no doctor seems to know why.” (Bethel University, 2014)

Before I went in to the evaluation, I wanted to collect my thoughts about how I thought I had been performing for the week. I had not received much feedback on how I had been doing and all of it had been positive. On several occasions, I had been told, “good observation” or, “I was hoping you would pick up on that”. During one instance, an OT was asking me how I would modify a child’s goals based on his progress, and I answered based on my knowledge that I have gathered through LEND, the OT program and my personal experience. The OT I was speaking with and the two OTs who overheard were impressed with my response and commented that I was ahead of some of the other level I students they have had before. Regardless of this positive feedback,

One of my weaknesses are meeting my bench marks. I have a tendency of falling behind. Its really hard for me to keep everything up. And another weakness I have is don't seek challenges. I don't put myself out there when I’m in the classroom. I don't push myself like I need

I do have weaknesses but I make up for them by trying have that weakness work in a way that doesn’t affect me that much or i’m trying to find a way to work on that weakness. A example of this is that communication isn’t my best suit especially small talk. Even though I’m not the best person for being social I do work a lot better when I work alone which for my career I think it may do more good than it will harm me. I tend to be efficient with my work and I even tend to go over the top from time to time. I work very hard and I don’t take many breaks to stop myself and rest. A lot of the time when I’m supposed to be taking a break I only rest for about two minutes then I continue to do my work until it’s done due to my dedication towards doing unfinished work. I do this because that’s when I feel like it’s really time to have fun and relax myself. You should really think about giving me this chance it will not be something you’ll regret doing. After graduating and having the opportunity to experience this program I would hope to in the future succeed at achieving my career as a game designer or computer

My weak area was the self-regulation portion; most of my responses to how often I handled each situation were “usually.” I need to improve on controlling my feelings in certain situations, trying to be more aware of tasks and their proposed deadlines, managing my time wisely, and executing new ideas that I myself have formulated. Other weaknesses were found in most of the areas where my strengths were. Most of them involved taking risks, which my personality often deters me from engaging in.

My weaknesses were speaking, knowing what you learn, understanding technology, prioritizing, and self- esteem and confidence. I have always had issues with speaking in public with people and sometimes to people in general. I

On my self- assessment I score 76 out of 80 on Discovering Self-motivation, Mastering Self-management, and Believing in Myself. I got high score on these because I feel that have gotten better on what I do. I started to believe in myself because I know I can do better. Also I know that there is something better for me and now I’m following what my mind tells me to do. The lowest score I got is 43 out of 80 in Employing Interdependence. Because I like to do things by myself I don’t like when people tell me what to do.

Self assessment is a process in which you examine yourself in attempt to discover and learn more about yourself. Your likes, dislikes, behaviors, attitudes and habits can be found during this process. You can use the discoveries to your advantage by accepting or changing strengths and weaknesses. I plan on using this course to enhance my personal skills to become a better student and find success in earning my Bachelor of Arts degree at Ashford University in Social Science. Self Assessment is the first step in my successful future.

I believe my personality is most comparable to the social-cognitive perspective theory proposed by Albert Bandura. The social-cognitive theorists believe people learn their behaviors either through conditioning or by observing and imitating others. This seems to be very true to how I developed my personality. I have always enjoyed watching someone try something first then doing it. I also believe that a lot of what I do was developed at a young age by going to daycare. In daycare you have lots of other children you watch and learn from. Some things you observe will get you in trouble and other things you learn has positive results. I believe all of the aspects such as the interaction of internal personal factors, the environment, and our behaviors has formed the personality I have today.

According to Rokeach (1972) values are concerned with conduct and desired end states, Rosenfeld & Wilson (1999). On the other hand conflict is basically a clash of powers that are pushing and pulling, and, therefore, conflict is correlative to power. The consequences of negative conflict can cause low morale, low work attendance, no unity among employees, and abusing of organization policy and procedure. It can also be constructive, and provide to resolutions that lead to improved quality, problem solving, cooperation, and the strengthening of relationships and personal growth (Conflict Resolution; Control Approaches, 2015).

While I definitely have more strengths than weaknesses, I do consider myself to have three weaknesses in my attributes. My weaknesses would include: Impatient, Shy and Reluctant. When working on a project, I can become a little impatient if the other group members are not pulling their weight properly or waiting till the last minute to do things. According to Melody Fletcher’s How To Overcome Impatience article, “Impatience is a response to fear”. I have a strong desire to control not only the outcome, but also how that outcome will come about and being impatient causes stress for myself because of the fear of failure. It can be somewhat irritating to work so hard on a project to have other group members conduct themselves in a manner that is unprofessional or not up to our higher education degree standards. I have managed to work on this weakness by knowing that every individual works at a different pace and levels of proficiency. I can be pretty shy when working in a group setting. While I try not to be reserved or nervous, I tend to sit back in listen during the first few group project meetings. I have worked on this weaknesses over my time at Full Sail University, by being more proactive in the group setting and taking control of either being the

One can easily argue that no single discovery changed the face of the earth more than electricity. We can witness its innumerable uses in our lives on a day-to-day basis, so electricity, particularly its relationship with heat, was always a subject that I found incredibly fascinating. I remember first learning about the topic in my IB Physics course just the past year and regretting that we couldn 't delve deeper into the topic or see the phenomenon in person through any lab work. This is precisely why I decided to take this particular topic as the premise of my internal assessment. A few hours of research revealed that there was far more to the topic at hand than I had previously assumed, but the aspect that most interested me was that of the Seebeck Effect.