.: 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.