Self Evaluation Is Not Easy

know the feeling one can have when one hears a beautiful song that brings joy to ones heart, stand in a field of flowers that excites ones eyes, or admire a face that is visually pleasing. The controversial issue that surrounds beauty is that some believe that true beauty is defined by someone’s outer appearance, while others believe it is something that is experiences through a person’s character. Beauty is defined as the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the sense or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit. The secret of beauty has been a quest of humans for centuries. It has been determined that women and some men spend up to one third of their income on products and procedures that enhance their looks. People spend way too much time looking in the mirror, scrutinizing, worrying, fretting, and wishing people could change something about themselves. People dream of looking like the girl at work because she has great hair, or the girl people meet at a party because she is skinny, with the perfect nose. This happens because people are constantly on social media. A pretty face is not a complete definition of beauty, nor is the quality of one being kind and compassionate. To contain beauty, someone or something does not have to be physically beautiful. Beauty is everywhere. Take a simple flower.

Self-evaluation may not be an easy thing, but my counseling skills throughout the semester have improved. This type of self-evaluation is an essential part of the role and helps the counselor to become a better counselor. Thus, without this reflection, the counselor becomes stagnant and loose motivation. I reflect on my journals most of the time about how I am improving each day, and the new skills that I learned and will continue using them. I did not think I would be able to do the skills that I learned from this course.

As I was reading The Beauty Bias, by Deborah L. Rhodes, I came across a statistic that perplexed me, saying the total “annual global investment in grooming” comes to $115 billion (Rhodes, pg. 32). This shocking fact provokes a worrisome question: Why do we, humans, spend so much time, money, and thought on our appearance? As a complex question, there are several equally complex answers. However, the simple answer is that everyone else invests their time and thought into your outer shell, eliciting effort from you to improve what they study - your external image. The concern placed on one’s fashion choice or natural features by society takes away from larger, more pressing issues such as the declining economy, or feeding third-world countries.

Americans have grown to try and look their best no matter what and this all stems from the way people view body image. Today someone could have anything they want done to change their appearance. “We are a culture of beauty junkies, addicts continually looking for our next fix to keep us looking young and pretty” (Masterson). Masterson believes that people are addicted to beauty and it is almost like a drug. This is not far from the truth. People go overboard to look as good as they possibly can with things like plastic surgery, botox, and even simple things like makeup. With the obsession with beauty as bad as it is today one seems to never be satisfied with how they look. “But that uplifting message--I'm OK the way I am--is overshadowed by the dark view readers are left with of a society obsessed with looks that isn't showing signs of stopping” (Masteron). The idea of someone being ok with their appearance gets quickly changed when they look around and see the world and the obsession it has. This is a huge reason body image is so bad in America now, because as soon as someone feels comfortable with their looks the standard changes. America’s obsession with looks is one of the biggest factors in the negative change towards body

Beauty has always been defined outer appearance. Men and women of all ages and races spend time, money, and energy to bring out their outer beauty in order to gain acceptance and impress others. It is evident that one must look good in order to be accepted by society. This can be shown through how much people value makeup, Snapchat filters, and fashion trends The next time you find yourself watching T.V., pay attention to the commercials and count the amount related to makeup, such as nails, eyebrows, and facial skin.

In our daily life we are constantly confronted with beauty and only to few other things we dedicate so much attention as to our appearance.

IT may seem like an unfair part of life for some, but looks matter. Most people will base their entire perception of you at first glance of your appearance, and judgements are made. However important looks are to you, perfection is far from required. Keeping up appearances, though, can make or break how you are viewed by the world, and also how you view yourself. So if you need some motivation or justification into the importance of investing in your appearance, keep reading.

It Is What Is On the Inside That Counts As Amy Davis says, “True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nobody can change that.” Society today has created a difficult beauty standard for women to attain; therefore, women feel bad about themselves if they do not fit society’s ideal image. In her article, “Face it, ladies: We can’t all be beautiful,” author Elissa Strauss describes the impossible beauty definition we have in the world today.

A regular self-assessment will help you to understand your individual performance. An excellent manager will always have healthy habits so that the employees that he is supervising will adopt the same behaviour. Employees who are tardy regularly are frequently absent from the office are unlikely to be meeting their organisational expectations. Poor punctuality means an employee is not performing their work to the hope of the organisation. The negative attitude they display may also be affecting their colleagues. An employee who disregards your expectations and presents a dishevelled or careless appearance reflects poorly on your management style and would not be meeting the performance standard of the organisation.

Self-assessments can be a personal benefit, as they allow one to better understand how they communicate, how they form relationships, and even how they learn. They are tools that help people comprehend aspects about themselves that they weren’t initially aware of. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Johari Window technique, and the Pillow Method are examples of these assessments. In this paper, I will use these three self-assessments to analyze and explain the ways in which I communicate and interact with people.

Over the quarter, I have completed 14 self-assessments that have opened my eyes to who I perceive myself to be and how this can affect my future career path. All 14 of these assessments focused on an aspect of my personality that is embedded and seen in how I view situations and how I conduct my daily life. I took the self-assessments very seriously and asked my family members and current housemates for feedback throughout this process. Some of these assessments confirmed my personal thoughts on the matter and few of the assessments opposed and revealed new qualities about myself that I had not thought of. Overall, this was a revolutionary experience and I would suggest thing process to anyone who wants a clear vision of him/herself.

I believe it is important for any student who wants to do their best in a class to take a moment to evaluate their own work to determine the rate their writing is progressing and how they can continue to advance their writing. When I looked through my own work I asked myself “what have I learned this semester?” and “what do I still need to learn in order to improve my writing?”. Answering both these questions will help me with my last step of my self-evaluation, developing a plan to learn new skills.

Now that I have completed the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth course Crafting the Essay, I feel I have tremendously grown as a writer. Even after submitting the first assignment, I looked back at a position paper I wrote for school that I received an A+ on, yet I saw several flaws I wished I had changed.

The main reason the word beauty has been used to describe external features rather than internal ones, so much more in the recent years, is the media. The media has evolved into something extremely influential, and the most clear message people recive from this, is what they are supposed to look like. For instance, magazines often create young girls who believe that thin as paper models seen in any magazine are what they are supposed to look like. Also, another component adding to the superficial terms people have are the celebrities that we idolize who are coached to not have even one single hair out of place; all those celebrity’s with perfect skin, hair, and body have been accomplices in the media’s outrageous spread shallow opinions. The outcome of the media’s bar being set so high is people all around doing whatever necessary to preserve their physical appearance regardless of the effect it has on their health or bank accounts.

Together, we can lower the numbers of people dying from eating disorders and cosmetic surgeries by resisting the beauty ideal. We can choose “to not participate in the beauty rituals, to not support the industries that produce both images and products, and to create other definitions of beauty” (WVFV, pg. 232). The most crucial and easiest solution is to create other definitions of beauty. Ultimately, it is up to the individual to decide what is beautiful. What if someone decided that the only thing that could contribute to one’s beauty is who someone is on the inside? Wouldn’t our world be a completely different place? Instead of