My Self Realisation

According to Abraham Maslow, the needs of man begin with the primal – food, water, air, shelter, and move upwards, up and all the way to the elusive quality of self-actualization. To self-actualize is to become all or most of that which one imagines, or perhaps desires, himself to be. It is to realize the ego ideal which rests within, that abstract and fabled construct of an ideal you.

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This is my end of year grade 12 culminating self protariate. The project was to create two self portraits but to have them on one page. Initially, I did not expect myself to finish before school ended due to how long it took me to complete it last year. But by reflecting on what happened last year with my lack of time I was able to change my techniques up to fit the time span.

I am currently a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio for almost a whole semester now. I came to this school straight out of high school, not knowing what I was getting myself into. During my high school years, I was good at every subject except my writing class. Coming to UTSA, I knew I was going to struggle in my writing class, but that didn’t discourage me from not trying my best in the course. Going through the English program, I realized that I have some strengths and weaknesses in the class, and it encouraged me to do better. The essays I have written for this class demonstrate that I have developed a strong thesis, organization skills, and detail; however, I still need to improve on grammar, keeping the POV, and citing.

According to Psychologist Abraham Maslow in “Self-actualization and Beyond,” self-actualization is a process in which one identifies his inner ability to do something productive. Once this inner talent comes out, that’s when a person actualizes himself. He believes that every individual self-actualizes, and while doing so one might make many wrong choices. Sonny and his older brother are faced with several obstacles while being on a journey to self-actualization in “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin. However, these obstacles not only come from their surroundings, but within themselves as well. The narrator himself and his younger brother, Sonny struggle with, and gradually develop their own

When we communicate we influence how others view us and we create an impression, when we receive opinions from others especially our significant other it influences how we feel about ourselves and helps create our self-concept. The reaction of others, your comparison with others, the social roles you play, and the groups of people you identify with all contribute to the development of your self-concept. According to Bevan and Sole part of the way you construct your self-concept is by choosing to accept or reject what other people tell you about yourself. Your self-concept is influenced by the people you surround yourself with and by what they tell you, to keep a positive self-concept it is helpful to surround yourself with someone who is positive and who speaks highly of you. You both must lift each other up and help each other to feel great about yourselves. “To grow and learn about yourself, you must be open-minded about other people 's opinions,” (Bevan and Sole 2014). Your opinions of each other mean a great deal to how you both feel about your selves and how you perceive yourselves. Your self-concept is how you feel about yourself but if you are told everyday of your life that you are ugly you will eventually think that you are a bit ugly, but if you are told you are beautiful you will think you are beautiful. Don’t ever put each other down even if it is unintentionally, always think before you speak! You can criticize or tell one another your thoughts and opinions

Creativity and innovation are necessary in life, whether it is for evolving and adapting to new surroundings or for pulling a company out of a financial crisis, we use our creative abilities and innovate every day. In order to develop and grow the ability to think creatively, one must first understand where these ideas come from and in what environment innovation flourishes. Steven Johnson, Edward Burger, and Michael Starbird suggest change comes from productive thinking and working collaboratively in a group. Effective thinking can be broken down into five essential elements, while working collaboratively in a group setting allows for different views on the topic at hand creating a stronger more defined product or process.

This semester, I had the privilege to experience unrestricted creativity in a structured writing class. Now, as I reflect upon the semester I come to realize how closed minded I really am. This semester, I was challenged as a student writer to draw upon something or find inspiration from within to constructively create a masterpiece with words. Often times, finding or even tapping into my creative nerve was very difficult. Then I came to realize, as a student writer, I am paralyzed by a concept called decision making. In a Public Administration Leadership course I actually learned something about myself. What I had learned really took me back to all the other structured writing classes I have taken over the years. There is a

I have always believed in myself because of the strong relationships with my family. They have taught me everything I know about community, care, and hard work.

It is the losses in life that makes us who we are. Whether it be the loss of someone close to us or the loss of our innocence, or former beliefs, or maybe the people we thought we were. Those losses are our first steps into adulthood. After that life gets more complicated. But it's also filled with promise and possibility of opening our hearts to new beginnings, dreams, experiences, and places.

As Malcom Godwell, author of OUTLIERS, has shown that the success is as much as a result of opportunities. So I think if we combine the idea of Peter Thiel’s book Zero to One where he wants us to think out of the box not to follow the traditional misinterpreted patterns of historian to stimulate your creativity and combining it with Foster idea of using courage and overcoming fears. F. P johns says criticism is hard to take by your friends and relatives .The fear of rejection holds us back Foster advises us to remember that everyone is afraid don’t be scared infect scare use their fear to overcome them. Only first few ideas are hard to get once you start getting an idea you will be sitting in hail of ideas. He believes it’s not true that people are born with creative mind he says it’s something they learn to generate and can be learned by anyone with practice so don’t be embrace having an idea is better than not having an idea at all. This book makes you feel very optimistic he has cleverly put together exercise.es, stories , quotations , illustrations offering a practical and fun way of generating

During the presentation, the team adapted the demonstration method inside of welcoming, did not perform encouragement for the audience to join the movie night and help out the charity. The plain slides style did not provide secure engagement and visual appeal. Ticketing system explanation was made

The concept of self-actualization, as discussed in the assigned article, is, at its core, a tool through which individuals achieve well-being by reaching their fully-functioning human potential. (Deci, Ryan, & Guay, 2013). Although self-determination theory does not use the specific term “actualization” of human potential, it does suggest that the highest psychological state for an individual is to be “full functioning,” or using all “capacities for experience, connection, and proactivity.” (Deci, et al., 2013, p. 110). As noted in the assigned article, the presence or absence of basic psychological needs impacts the ability of an individual to become “self-actualized.” When the basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness are met, an environment is created for an individual to become integrated and autonomously motivated. There are three types of autonomously motivated functioning: intrinsic motivation, fully internalized extrinsic motivation and emotion-motivated behaviors. Ultimately, in order to actualize our human potential, or become “full functioning” we must not only have our basic psychological needs met, but also autonomously regulate our emotions and experience intrinsic or fully internalized motivation within our life activities. (Deci, et al., 2013, p. 126).

“No matter how good you are, someone is always going to be against you. But never let them be the limit of your success,” is quote stated by Terry Mark, yet is one life lesson I had to learn it the hard way. Moreover, since I can remember I been more overweight than my school peers. Therefore, even was against me everybody never forgot to mention that the bigger I am the less successful or smart I was going to be. This is when I had to stand up and show to all of them that I was better than them.

There are a few things that I have learned about my self throughout this course. One of the most important thing that I have leaned has to be the goal setting that I can do. Another useful thing that I leaned from this class has to be confident even when you think that there is none point of being confident about a situation will bring the best of it not the worst situation.It’s not just the setting of them but actually executing them and also finishing them.I did my own action plan about trying to make the president list last semester and I tried very hard and I made it. Having all A’s in all of my four classes was hard and I had a few nights where I didn 't get much sleep and had to work hard but it was worth getting. Communication by listening has never been a problem for me. Listening about other people problems and also trying to help solve them has been a big part of my communication skills. People always like taking about there problems to people they know very little about and I leaned that when I worked at a convenient store. Random people after getting to know me for about a week would just come up to you and talk about what ever problem that they had. Another communication skill that I have that is use full is Speaking. I found this out last semester when I would have to do speeches. I would figure what I was going to talk about then I would go up there and start talking about my speech topic. This skill has been very useful in many ways from taking at a friends