The Importance of Self-Awareness
Welcome back to the blog! So recently I took a class in school called Personal Management. This was a great class that I truly enjoyed because it was a lot different from my other classes. The class itself was about managing yourself in a number of different aspects such as motivation, discipline, and emotional intelligence. This is useful in a number of different circumstances but to keep this blog post focused, I want to talk about self-awareness. This is incredibly important in pursuing a productive, professional career for the long term. This is because in most cases you will be working in a team of other professionals that are different than yourself in the way they think, act and perceive information. So it is important that you have the ability to self assess yourself to know your own strengths and weaknesses. While also understanding other people’s strengths and weaknesses.
In class, our assignment was to self assess ourselves and determine which of the 16 personality categories that we fit into. Now while this was a great exercise I think it is a lot easier to just take a free test like 16personalities.com where you will be able to understand not just your strength and weaknesses but also how you handle friendships, romantic relationships and some of your workplace habits. When I self assessed myself, I got a different result than the 16 personality test. Which goes to show you how much different we actually are versus how we may perceive ourselves to be. In addition to this point, it is important to understand that these personality types do not define you. If a certain characteristic doesn’t align with how you perceive yourself then are fully in control of changing that.
In order to appropriately self assess yourself you need to ask yourself a series of very tough questions which may be very difficult to answer. Especially if this is the first time you are asking yourself, what do you want in life?
If you are interested in knowing my personality type. I am an assertive campaigner.
If you would like to talk about your personality trait feel free to email me.