Who Am I? A Self Concept

In C.D. Wright’s complex investigation called One Big Self, the author twists around different views and social norms of convicts by exposing the side of prisoners that not many think about. This piece proves to be a culture shock, because of the twisted message of prisoners having a soft side, along with the unique style and conventions that the writing is delivered through with the odd layout of stanzas, fragmented quotes, and different fonts. The bizarre environment of the prison from which C.D. Wright finds her information proves to be rare and original because she uses her book as a metaphor to relate to the prisoners, which no other author has completed before. When reading One Big Self, readers feel that the book is hard to approach and not easy to understand because the tone is not accessible. By using this type of style, the author relates her writing to how people identify and relate with criminals, like those in

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

Who am i? I am an individual who has achieved many goals despite a childhood and adolecense with much adversity. I grew up I Santa Clarita, California my child hood was realativley normal . My grandmother mary died, when I was 7 and my mother started drinking heavily . By the time I was 11 she was a raging alcoholic and was depressed most of the time. I was helpless, at the same time my father became a drug addict. As a result of her alcoholism my mother contacted cirrhosis and when I was 13 she passed away. I was devastated and too young to lose my mother.

Cold is a subjective term used to describe the feeling of the absence of heat, and without light, there is only darkness. One of these can only exist with the existence of the other and in spite of it. She could be compared to the times when this rule was ignored; the cool day was filled with kinetic energy, and the pitch-black room was spilling over with the brightest light that anyone had ever seen. This, however, did not mean that she was full of light and warmth, but rather that she encompassed both the dark and the light while she had no ties to either side. This quality is negligible in most scenarios, and in many, she could romanticize herself into an edgy wanderer with a greater understanding than that of her peers. Although, when she faced a massive dilemma, she could not find a way to rationalize her inability to commit into something amazing. There was no way that she could make sense of how quickly she lost hope in her relationship with the knowledge that someone else in the world cared about her.

This last Monday and friend of mine showed me a video clip she took with her

If you walk continuously along a straight path, you will never be found again. But on a cyclic path, you come back repeatedly at the starting point and eventually cover endless distance, provided the energy and system remain intact. Interestingly, most phenomena occurring in nature favour a cyclic rather than straight path.

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.

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.

In the completion of all of these self-assessments I have been left with the idea of who I am as a leader, group member, member of the community, citizen, and as a person in general. I have never before looked at myself in such a way nor have I ever completed such a set of assessments. I was surprised at the accuracy of the self-assessments. It leads me to better understand truly who and how I am. For the most part I was satisfied with the assessments. I believe that overall my self-assessments make up the personality of a good attorney which in the career path I am choosing to take. However, there were some negatives in the assessments such as my issues with listening. I do agree with the assessment but it does let me know that I have

I recognized I was “other” at the age of 4 and 17. I was tease about my accent entering into pre-school and mocked in college. I’m from a Jamaican Descent, we speak “patios” and it was a language spoken in my household growing up. I never forgot where my family came from and our family kept us cultural linked to our heritage. As a child, I never understood which made me feel uncomfortable about my accent. My surrounding grew cultural diverse and was economically embraced. Growing up, everybody wanted to be Jamaican. It was a cultural shock attending Alabama State University in the south. Though I was mocked, southern loved how I spoke and became memorized by my voice. I understood young that people are brought up differently, view life differently, reacts differently and respond differently.

For me its difficult for a certain agent that is on my team. Lets call him Juan. I first met him in the TWC training class. He seemed arrogant and a know it all in class. He made it seem like any female was beneath him but yet I still tried to be the nice person and get a long with everyone in the class because I was trying to go into management. I still tended to give him the cold shoulder even though he would try to flirt or maybe his attempt to be nice he would always bring me jumbo pixie stix because I had an odd obsession with them.

When i was in elementary school all the kids got along there was no clique and all that stuff, but my first year of middle school i was introduced to cliques. There was the cool kids, the smart kids, the athletes, the gothics kids etc. There was so many cliques but i didnt fit into any of them. i tried to force myself to fit in to any of them. i made a group of friends but i didnt really like their vibe they were mean and rude and didnt care about anyones feelings. Not even mine. I stopped talking to them and just started doing my own thing. I started to have better grades and felt happier to be myself. Thats when i started to believe that being myself was the best thing for me.

A sense of self is a general conscious awareness of your own identity. I have come to understand the term as it is what defines me and makes me one of a kind. It could be a certain look, attitude or personality trait. It could also be the way I view a certain person, thing or subject. My sense of self could even be my purpose in life, perhaps? If it is, then I would say that my sense of self is something that has changed over time and will continue to develop as I get older and my life is influenced by events, places and people. Developing my sense of self is key to living a satisfying and healthy life.

The question “who am I”? Can have a lot of individuals thinking about themselves, including myself because one might not know where to start. It is a very broad question, but having done the Strengths Finder 2.0 assessment, I realized more in depth what kind of person I really am based on my top 5 strengths. Who I am as a learner, who I am in my career and who I am as a person of faith lead me to answering the question above and understanding more of myself within.