One’s personality affects basically everything that we do, especially in our interaction with other people. But aside from having a pleasing personality, one must be aware of it and learn how to exhibit it properly. In other words, an individual must attain a certain degree of self-awareness. Being self-aware plays a pivotal role when ever one leads other people or whenever one is faced with a dilemma. There are important areas in one’s self-awareness or the 4 core aspects of self-concept: values, learning style, interpersonal needs, and attitude towards change. Learning these core aspects in class really help define me more as an individual. These things made me look at things, especially change, in a different level that is higher from how I looked at it before.
First, values play a significant role in our self-concept for the very reason that it generally defines what an individual consider right or wrong, or what experts call moral judgment. It guides an individual on how to act on things that surrounds him/her in the environment. Since values are important in an individual there are two classifications of values: cultural and personal. From how we see it, cultural values are those that are already embedded in the place where an individual resides; it also in a way becomes the basis of the other classification of one’s values. Personal values, on the other hand, are those values that are defined or created by an individual for him/her self. These are the values that are basically rooted to cultural values and past experiences of an individual. Values may help an individual do task effectively if acknowledged accordingly, but it also has the possibility to become a conflict if one’s values contradict the values of the company or organization where one works.
Second, learning style is basically how an individual gain knowledge or information; it is also how an individual evaluates information he/she acquires. An individual’s learning style often times do not change as one grows up. There are different types of learning style: whole brain learning, multiply intelligences, left brain, and right brain. Tests have been developed to determine an individual’s method of learning like the video posted on you tube. Whole brain leaning means that an individual is using both sides of the brain, it occurs when one thinks in a logical and creative manner. While right and left brain means that only one side of an individual’s brain is being used. Multiple intelligences, on the other hand, means that one’s intelligence is not exclusive to academics. An individual can be intelligent on different things, depending on what he/she prefers doing.
Third, interpersonal needs, as the name suggests, covers the aspects of how an individual interacts with other people around him/her. They determine the preferences of an individual in interacting, as well as the patterns that he/she exhibit whenever he/she interacts.
Last, attitude toward change determine how an individual determines how an individual adapts to changes that may occur in his/her life or surroundings. It also determines how much responsibility an individual takes in the changes that occur around him/her. Change is basically the only thing permanent in our lives, like what the saying says, that is why one’s attitude towards change is very important because the faster one’ adapts to change the faster that he/she will recover. It is also true that whenever we adapt and learn to make the best out of the change the more success an individual will experience.
Source:
Developing Self Awareness http://www.4shared.com/document/8mqYO5yv/DEVELOPING_SELF_AWARENESS_707b.html?
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