Who Am I? A Self Concept

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

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.

As a first-generation college student, I was expected to be a doctor. Having watched the inspirational film Gifted Hands, a biography starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as the world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, I wanted to be a neurosurgeon. Ben Carson grew up in what can only be described as an educationally deficient environment. Neither his father nor mother were educated. Through reading, however, little Ben 's imagination expanded, which was reflected on his academic performance. "It 's a miracle,” stated Dr. Carson upon his interview regarding his decision to work with brains. “I believe we 're all capable of performing miracles … I believe we 're all blessed with astonishing gifts and skills," he

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

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.

There are many things that define who I am. I tend to organize my supplies in a very particular way. Let’s start with my bedroom for example, I tend to keep my phone away from my bed when I go to sleep. The reason being is so when the alarm wakes me up I must get out of bed to turn it off which eventually has me awaken fully. I also have a piano in my room against the window that faces the street, I enjoy listening to music and seeing what’s going on outside. I am kind of like the neighbor hood watch guy. I don’t stalk my neighbors. I am just always on the lookout for mischief. On the first day of class, I tend to sit in the last row on an aisle closer to the door. The reason I do so I because if anything does happen where I need to leave

So me, me what about me. I was a slacker, I didn’t do anything in school. I had f’s after f’s after f’s, I failed most of my classes. I was told I had to take summer school for biology and English, I went one day for biology and I was tired of it already so I stopped going. My returning year, I’m a sophomore now and well we start with a percentage of 0.00 so I was okay. I had Dance first period, Geometry second period, Culinary third period, English fourth period, Spanish fifth period and World History last period. I have missing credits so one day they called me to the counseling room and they gave me a new schedule and Culinary was gone and biology took its place. I talked to my Chef and told me she would do her best to put me back in because

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.

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.