Self Knowledge And Self Thinking

To tackle my goals this semester I needed to have a clear focus. Tackling my goals this semester has made me a stronger dancer. From the start of the semester, I have wanted to work on the continuation of my goals from the previous semester. In each class I have worked on finding ways to work on my goals anyway possible. Reflecting my work from the beginning of the semester until now, I have seen myself wanting to be more dedicated to my goals each class. The goals I had for the semester helped me to progress and I continue to work on the ones I struggle with. By having a strong work ethic and clear focus I have had a chance to work on all my main goals throughout the semester: musicality, fluidity, tension, staying lifted in the core, and confidence.

This challenge and the experiences taught me the importance of self-knowledge and the immense role it plays in understanding and improving yourself. Learning about yourself puts you in a better position to control yourself and your life. Self-knowledge is an integral part of coping with difficult situations and provides an arduously earned reward to help you become better for the

As health professionals, it is important to constantly be self-aware and to discover new truths about oneself. Jourard (1971) stated that lack of personal awareness can lead to a feeling of vulnerability when approached by patients expressing feelings, due to the fear of not knowing how to respond in an appropriate way. By having self-awareness, the sources of limitations that have the tendency to cause anxiety can be identified, so forward planning can be prepared to reduce or eliminate the impact this may have on performing activities and approaches to patients. Certain individuals utilise different techniques to minimise anxiety such as deep-breathing exercises or thinking of the positive outcome that comes once the source of fear or anxiety is overcame. Meanwhile, others prefer being critiqued, since it allows areas within practise needing improvements to be highlighted and alternatives to be considered.

I could have incorporated the models and self- awareness into my decision-making process to come to NC State by always reflection back. I think that I was in so much of a rush to make sure that I got into a top school, that I never took the time to process everything. I think if I would have used the blue hat of thinking in reflective, I would not have been so stressing out and felt defeated when I got deferred from NC State. Another strategy that could have been used was the yellow hat of thinking I think that the lack positive throughout this journey made it hard for me to enjoy applying to colleges experience. I was so worried about not getting into my dream school that I forget to take a step back in realizing that I was now entering the new face of my life. Lastly, I could have incorporated self- awareness activity of identifying values. The identifying values activity allowed for me to identify characteristic that I feel are important or beneficial to my life. Remember my values, could have benefited my college decision because it could make my decision of coming to NC State base on my Value.

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

Looking at the various options from Thursday's readings, I would like to recant my previous opinion for the soul to be the enduring self. Looking at the course material, I would still agree with this. To add in this weeks readings I think Hegel is onto something with the power struggle and the heading of the Relational self.

The remainder of this paper will look into my more subjective retelling of the key experiences to include things that I found interesting, intriguing, and to generally reflect on the experience as a whole. I will use Moran’s cultural framework as a guide, this includes four parts; Knowing About, Knowing How, Knowing Why and Knowing Oneself.

This part will discuss self-awareness and continuous self-development through analyzing a number of prior researches, then come up with the link of them to support my role as a manager in the future.

In Ken Russell’s Altered States and Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception, both protagonists embark on journeys fueled by psychoactive drugs in which they are confronted with the notion of Self. In Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley consumes mescaline believing that he will be permitted to experience the mindset of visionaries but, instead, his heightened state transforms his concept of the Self. In Altered States, the protagonist Eddie Jessup, portrayed by William Hurt, ingests a mixture of amanita muscaria, a hallucinogenic mushroom, in an attempt to penetrate the atoms of the mind, which he believes to hold the memory of conception of consciousness. Although both protagonists alter their beliefs of Self, there are many similarities, as well as differences, between their psychoactive drug- induced pursuit of Self.

The first section of this paper will contain a self-analysis utilizing self-assessments, class discussions, assignments, and the assigned reading materials. The self-analysis portion of this paper will contain several important topics that we discussed during class along with my assessment of how I view myself with respect to these topics with the goal of identifying the deficiencies and gaps that I see. The action-plan portion of this assignment will contain the framework for turning the deficiencies that I have identified into strengths through constant practice and patience on my journey to level three leadership. The self-analysis portion will hope to determine the “why” I did not get the manager position currently available

The five most critical areas of self-awareness are emotional intelligence, personal values, cognitive style, orientation toward change, and core self-evaluation.

Self knowledge is knowing and understanding oneselves way of thinking and motives. Examining your life, is gaining self knowledge, and if you do not do this, your life is not worth living. By looking into your own life, you begin to understand your actions, and why you behave like you do. This allows you to understand how people perceive your actions, and how they affect other people. Self knowledge also allows people to know their strengths and weakness, and play to their strengths. If someone goes through this process, and knows that they aren’t the best with helping people figure out what they need, but they excel in design. Instead of going into a job at technical support, they would become an architect. Marc Anthony stated “If you love your job, you never have to work a day in your life.” Self knowledge can help you achieve this, because you know what you like, and can go for a job relating to

Self-awareness is the capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals.

Wherever there are people, there will be problems. Often times, the real problem lies underneath a myriad of more complicated issues. Only by discovering the actual dilemma, can an individual address the pervading issue. Through an appealing narrative of a person facing real life difficulties in his personal and professional life, The Arbinger Institute bring to light the undeniable way people betray their true self and undermine their own success. Through personal self-examination and application of the principles presented in this book, I have been able to make the necessary adjustments to view others appropriately.

On closing the lesson, Rob lacked a well developed warm down which meant that the students finished off the lesson basically from the mini game they were playing, which meant they were highly energised. This is not entirely a bad thing, however this may affect the behaviour of the students in the following lesson. In this time, Rob however did reflect upon some of the skills used by the student in the activity to encourage what they unselfconsciously learnt and developed. I felt that this was a nice way to end of the lesson with the students identifying what they had achieved with many of them walking away with smiles of their faces.