.: PERSONAL auto biography :.

Personal Characteristics

I came up with this list; friendly, introverted, intelligent, compassionate, self-indulgent, rational, apprehensive, and humorous. These characteristics apply in all aspects of life, including my occupation, mate selection, school goals, and leadership.

Due to the fact that I am an introverted person I have had to force myself to become more of an extrovert to expand upon my horizons. I joined the student council at Lake Tahoe Community College to help further my ability to branch out and try new experiences. I believe that my personality allows me to be a good leader, and have never had a problem with taking charge and to help other people focus their attention to reach a common goal.

My occupation, friend selection, goals, and leadership are all affected by aspects of my personality. My job has made me become much more comfortable talking to people that I don’t know, where before I had my job at Alpen Sierra Coffee Co., it was difficult for me. Friends have also played a large role in shaping my personality. I have some friends with similar characteristics and some with completely different personality traits than I do. When I am around people with different personality traits from myself it helps me to branch out to and tap into traits that I want to expand on.

The Material Social and Spiritual Self: separate myself from my exterior surroundings. Parts of my personality that I consider to be a part of my social personality are that I am introverted, tend to be a leader, am logical, and pragmatic. This effects me in a social way because it is how I interact with people. These qualities are what make me capable of forming effective, and open relationships with coworkers, friends, etc.

The aspects of my personality which I would put into the material self are my journal, and my room. These two objects are important for my everyday being because they both serve as ways to soothe myself, and to relax. My journal is a tool that I use to release anxiety and tension from within myself. Writing in it everyday is very helpful. My room is also a part of my personality because it is the place where I feel most safe and relaxed, which I appreciate greatly.

The spiritual aspects of my personality are not well developed. The one thing that I can think of is that I have a mantra which I use, “the soul shall be freed, whatever the cost.” I try to live by this mantra because sometimes I hold myself back by being too rational and pragmatic.

These three aspects of personality are extremely interesting, and I have never tried to classify them in this sort of manner before. I think that people in this age tend to identify themselves with what they have rather than what they are, and this class has helped me to learn that it is extremely important to be able to distinguish yourself.

The Search For Self Knowledge and the different ways to classify personality traits. I would have to say that I agree with Eysenck’s approach to personality the most because he takes something that is extremely complex and categorizes it in a manner that is understandable and logical.

Being a semi-extroverted introvert would make me distant and more serious, with some venturesome qualities, which I agree with. People who are seen as having psychoticism are aggressive, cold, egocentric, impersonal, and impulsive. I would say that although these traits do exist within me, that they are at a very low level. I think that I have a relatively moderate level of neuroticism, anxiety, depression, emotional.

My Self Views

One thing that I have done that helped me to focus on the positive and not on the negative was to keep working at a job where not very many people liked me. I worked as a landscaper for the City of South Lake, I worked as had as they did and they didn’t like me at all. I kept working there because I would have rather stayed at the job then give them the gratification of me leaving. It was difficult to focus on the positive but I was happy when I made it though the entire summer working there.

The values and standards by which I choose to live my life has been greatly effected by the influence of my parents. A generalized other has never really been a huge determinate of how I live, it was just that I have been taught to live by a certain standard. I think that the biggest influence on many people is the relationships that occur within a family. When parents instill a belief system within their children and follow the same model it is easy to live the right way, even if you do make some mistakes.

One person that I have chosen to imitate in many ways is my older sister. Throughout my life she has had a profound influence on who I am as a person because she was always there for me to lead by example and to help me though my problems. When an older sibling serves as a good role model for their brother or sister it can be a highly positive experience. She has always been someone that I admire, even when she has made mistakes she still manages to maintain a high level of moral integrity and has an overall demeanor of positivism.

“The Self”,,,

I think that everyone goes through stages of depression in their lives, and fortunately I have only been severely depressed once during my life. Depression both helps and hinders your sense of self in different ways. It can help by making you examine the negative aspects of self, like weight, negativity, and etc., and may also heighten the process of introspection. It can hinder you sense of self because your self esteem is lowered as well as self efficacy.

Autobiography
December 8, 1987, 7:15 AM, my mother says; “Doug, its time.” “Uhh, ok honey. I’ll get the car ready!” Born in Carson City, NV, in the hands of Dr.Salt, was Jennifer Anne Bigelow. Back in 1987 Barton Memorial Hospital was not considered to be very reliable, so my parents chose to make the drive over the pass to Carson City. The birth was a cesarean section, due to the fact that my older sister, Audrey Elizabeth took 36 hours.
Before we start lets review the main characters of the story, who are the immediate members of my family; my dad, Douglas Hawkins Bigelow; 60 years old, Joan Elizabeth Bigelow; 57 years old, my sister, Audrey Elizabeth Bigelow; 23 years old, and finally, the baby, Jennifer Anne Bigelow; 20 years old. These people have affected the path of my life more than any others, and I consider them to be my number one priority.
Life on Country Club Drive was pleasant; this was where I lived from birth until age 7. Our house was on the fifth hole of Lake Tahoe Golf Course, and one of the first things I can remember was the vast amount of snow that used to fall back then. My dad had a huge riding snow blower and used to plow our driveway and our neighbors’. The snow seemed inconceivably huge as it towered over-head, and it was an amazing feeling to play in when my sister and I were little.
When I was young my sister was my closest companion. Two and three-quarter years separates my sister and I, which made me always look up to her. What should I wear, ask my sister, what kind of music should I listen to, ask my sister, and many other instances. I am extremely blessed to have a great role model in my life in the form of my sister.
When my sister and I were about 8 and 5, respectively, we started to make friends with our neighbor across the street, Kelly. I mention this event because Kelly was one of the first people that I can remember outside of my family. So, we would both go over to Kelly’s house and plan to have sleep overs, but for some reason my sister and I would never end up staying. Kelly was my first friend as a child, but she wasn’t a nice person. Whenever we would go across the street, before we left my mom would say, “If Kelly starts being mean, you can always come home.” The only reason that we thought we should be friends with her was because she lived so close to us, but it ended up that we only hung out with her for a few months. This was a relationship that shaped my future because it made me apprehensive to stay other places than the comfort of my own home, and I hadn’t really figured out what a friend should be.
I had always preferred being with my family over other people, which I believe has formed my introverted personality. My mom and dad raised my sister with the right amount of freedom and guidelines, which made us grow closer to them. I am more close with my dad than anyone else in this world. He is a role model and a friend, and from the day where it was just he and I playing golf together until today he has taught me so much. My dad worked at Raleys grocery store for 35 years, and just recently retired to start working at Lake Tahoe Golf course. I started playing golf at age 6 and still play today. The golf course is a major part of my entire life, and can remember the quality hours that I spent with my father there. He is, by far, the most intelligent person I have ever met, and has a genius IQ. He does not like to advertise this, but he can figure anything out, which has helped me to realize the potential that I possess as a young student striving to learn and make a career out of something that I love.
My parents wanted my sister and I to realize our potential as individuals from a young age, which is why we started working early. My sister and I would go out on the golf course, collect and clean the balls that we found, re-package them with boxes that were labeled J&L Golf Balls, and sit out in front of house and sell the balls to golfers on their way by. My mom also has her own housekeeping business, so from age 10 I have been helping her clean her houses, which is not the easiest or most fun job ever. I had my first real job at age 15, at Raleys, and have always taken pride in the fact that they raised me with a strong work ethic.
Coming from a lower middle class family has been hard at times. As I grew older the concept of money became much clearer, as my parents sold our house and started renting a much smaller house off of Tahoe Keys Boulevard. The first house which we lived in after the golf course was 729 Michael Drive, where we lived for five years, and then one day my dad picked me up from middle school, took me down our street but turned when we got there into a different driveway, we were moving four houses down the street, into a different house, but I didn’t know why. It turned out that we had been evicted. Money was tight, and we had to move. My sister and I felt like we were being uprooted again, and it was a strange feeling. Dragging boxes down the street as our neighbors watched us was something that made me feel inadequate, and poor. I hadn’t felt like that before, but it was to happen again.

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