Personal Growth And Identity: The Influence Of Identity

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We are more than our identities. To know your inner self is to know your purpose, your values, your goals, and your motivations. Aligning with your inner thyself. Knowing your inner self comes from self-awareness, having a clarity of your inner self opens the consciousness and set up a solid focus in self-actualization. Referring to the need of personal growth and development that exists throughout their life cycle. Life is about pushing self in accomplishing goals although a challenge because of risky obstacles that always lands on our track of completion. An individual’s identity is molded by many diverse aspects. Family, culture, friends, personal interests and adjoining environments are all influences that tend to help shape a person’s …show more content…

As a person grows up in a family, they are influenced by many aspects of their life. Family and culture may influence a person’s sense of responsibilities, ethics and morals, tastes in music, humor and sports, and many other aspects of life. “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” (Abraham Maslow) I am who I am partly because of my family, but mostly because of who I want myself to be. The total organization of inherited and acquired traits of anyone has evidence by their behavior. Influences on personality developments follows under the inherited traits, natural environment, social and cultural environment, and personal experiences. Family influences on one’s personality development on the transmission of culture (traditional traits). “The humanist approach emphasizes the entire person and his or her interrelationship with culture.” (Hunt. 127) The seven elements of culture: conventions, mores (pronounced mo-res), laws, social institutions, artifacts, language, and social values. Conventions is simple customary ways of doing things. Mores is a type of convention but must be

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