Who Am I? I am Agila Abraham. A 17 year old senior at Glenbrook South High School. I believe that the most important thing to do is respect. For example, I come from and identify myself as a Catholic. I expect people to respect me for my religious views, and I show the same respect for their views on religion. I think being Catholic has played a huge part in my life. Growing up I had two strict Catholic parents who taught me the importance of Sunday mass and having God present in everything that I do. At times, I’ve fallen away from the practice, but somehow I always find myself grateful for having a religion to fall back on. It’s always been a foundation that has helped me build the rest of my relationships, interests and personality. Just like any human, I’ve my own set of strengths and weaknesses. A list of my strengths would be I’m always loyal, helpful and compassionate. If a friend or family member needs help with something I will always be at their side. I consider myself a good listener. I’m never one to judge and I think that’s a great quality to have in a friend. Also, academic wise, I’m decently okay at school work. I always get things done and I’m not a troublemaker, I hope. I’ve always valued education and I’m glad it’s not hard for me to do well in school. Some weaknesses I have is I have trouble warming up to people, …show more content…
and I have a hard time speaking up. In a huge crowd, I’m always the quiet one unless I’ve known the people for a really long time. If they are strangers, I usually keep to myself and try to talk as little as possible. I wish I was able to get over the fear of public speaking, formal and informal. I always want to be a sociable person, but at times it’s hard. I have the fear of being judged for what I have to say. Some issues that are important to me are LBGT+ rights. Growing up in a conservative family and being pro gay rights has been tough. I’m always the only one in arguments to defend the LGBT+ community. Even though it’s hard to speak up against my parents about this, I will continue to do so. I know many people who are close to me that struggle because of their sexual preference. If I can stand up against my family about this, I feel like I’m helping my friends and family who are struggling because they can’t come out to their family. Some of the things I like include, basketball--watching not playing--, music, and quality time with friends and family.
Basketball and music are pretty self explanatory. Quality time with people that I love is something that I really like. I never want to miss out on a time when I can be with people that I want to be with. This is especially true this year. As a senior going off to college in less than a year, I won’t be able to see my friends and family unless it’s school breaks. I’ve never been so far away from them and I’ll miss them so much. So, with thee rest of the time I have in Chicago, I’ll savor each moment I can with
them. Some of the things I dislike is wasting food, controversy, and war. Living in a world with abundant amounts of food and resources, everyone, including myself is guilty of wasting food. I sometimes don’t even realize that what I’m doing is wrong. There are so many people in the world that go without food and then there’s me who throw away half a pizza because I couldn’t finish it. Controversy is something that really gets to me. I wish the world would just agree to disagree, but they just fight to prove which side is right. Sometimes we should just realize that there could be more than one right answer and one of those answers isn’t war. I know, this could only happen in an idealistic world, but sometimes I feel like we as people don’t even try to look for a better solution. This is me.
I feel like this is an accurate assessment of my personality and I think this is a characteristic that will be beneficial to me when I am in the counseling profession. This is a characteristic that I relate to counselors and advocating for clients. Empathy was listed as my second strength. Empathy means being able to sense or feel other’s feelings and being able to imagine yourself in another person’s situation. I know that this will be beneficial for me as a counselor because empathy is one of the most crucial characteristics for the therapeutic relationship. Input is my third strength. This means that I am inquisitive, naturally curious, and seek information about many things. I think this is helpful for me as a counselor because we are expected to be life-long learners and actively continue our education. Connectedness was my fourth strength and it means that people who have this strength believe that all people are connected and that we are responsible for others. It also
All of my life I have been called countless names, some of which irritated me and some did not bother me at all. In elementary school, when kids thought about the name ‘Jackie’ they tended to connect it to Jackie Chan thus calling me ‘Jackie Chan’. Furthermore, the kids seemed to link the name to being a masculine name the majority of the time, which began to annoy me since I answered the question, “Why do you have a boy’s name,” so many times. As years went by, I became used to being asked the question and the kids matured, thus stopped calling me ‘Jackie Chan.’
refugees, and the second generation who were born here in the states. Finally, I feel now that I have the vision to work on myself to know more about my attitude, my future therapeutic values in the field practices. At the same time, I am planning to work more with my personal therapist on the values, beliefs, and emotions and I will be happy to know about myself more.
According to Isabel Briggs Myers’ personality test some of my strengths and weaknesses are honesty, responsibility, and practicality and stubbornness, tendency towards judgment, and insensitivity, respectively . I can use the first three to run my classroom like a well-oiled machine. I will be organized and respectful and treat my students like adults, preparing them for life as well and increasing their knowledge. However, due to the weaknesses associated with my personality, I must not fall into the trap of favoring some students over others, or being insensitive to their personal situations. I believe that God did not necessarily create me with my personality intentionally, but He certainly does work through it and despite
Identity-“Ones personal qualities.”Identiy is something only he or she can fully define. My uncle says I am affectionate,cheerful, and calm. My grandmother sees me as slim, pretty and sweet. My dad described me as perky, cheerful and happy, my mom says beautiful, gentle, and self-conscious. These adjectives describe me accurately, yet they are only abstract versions of me. Adjectives cannot begin to describe me and I aknowlege these descriptions for what they are, a condensed translation from my outward self to the world. It is impossible for anyone to understand me completely because nobody has experienced the things I have. My mother has never cherished a raggedy doll named Katie and my father never spent hours upon hours making collages and scrap books for his future children. My uncle never hid in the back of a pick-up-truck and traveled four hours to New York and my grandmother has never walked hours in the rain looking for the Queen of England. My identity is something only I can define.
For personal and professional growth, given my personality traits, I need to embrace my strengths and weaknesses. I must use my strengths to my advantage, to be more effective academically and in the workplace, but I also need to identify and try to overcome my weaknesses, especially professionally.
One of my greatest skills is being able to be compassionate towards others. By placing myself into someone else’s shoes, I find myself being able to better understand where other people are coming from. I am an extremely caring person that will go to great lengths for anyone. I can easily overlook the differences in other people, and this is what helps me get along with almost anyone that I come across. In order to lead people in a positive direction you need to be able to relate to them on a more personal level. It is much easier when people feel comfortable around their leader. I always like to lend a helping hand or even a shoulder to cry on when it is needed. My strengths include integrity, optimism, faith, innovation, and adaptability. These strengths are important to have in leadership positions. Leaders should have a firm hold on their beliefs and morals in order to have a positive impact on people. Keeping my commitments is crucial to me, because I am a woman of my word. I think this is a good trait in leadership, because people need to be able to count on the person that they look up to. Optimism is also something I value. I belie...
I like to think I have many strengths. After review of my character/ personality test, I can see what they are. I am a task-oriented leader, which drives me to finish a project. I have a strong individual work ethic, which allows me to be responsible and not rely on others. I am good at building and leading a team. I am not power oriented, so I am not manipulative and scheming. My preferred power types include collaborating, compromising, legitimate. This means I know that a person does not necessarily need to be in management to be a vital employee. I prefer to use collaborating, compromising, and accommodating techniques when dealing with conflict. I also have a strong ability to provide good feedback.
As an upcoming social worker I understand there are certain traits I portray that are strengths in the social work field. I also understand that were there are strengths, there are weaknesses. I did not realize what my strengths and weaknesses were until I began to practice in the field. Some strengths I have found in myself are good listening skills, ability to handle stressful situations, and time management skills. Along with those strengths I have found my weaknesses are speaking what I believe about a situation, procrastination, and taking on too much responsibility.
Through the self-assessment instruments utilized in this program, I have gained wealth of knowledge about my strengths, and weaknesses and how they affect my personal and professional life. By using different exercises, I recognized new strengths and weaknesses. At the same time, I identified ways to develop my strengths and overcome my weaknesses. The Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) identified some of my strengths as the ability to get things done, initiating, and taking risks (Kolb, 2007). In the Strongest Self Feedback Exercise, some of the feedback listed my strengths as having excellent interpersonal and communication skills, being self-confident, a fast learner, determined, hardworking, and an awesome listener (Drucker, 2005).
When I think of strengths or weaknesses, I often try to think of weaknesses first. I am not a negative person nor am I always thinking of the worst possible scenario, but rather focus on faults first. Due to that thinking style or habit, let me start this paper with what I perceive to be my weaknesses. This essay may not include all of my strengths or weaknesses, but I feel it is a major portion of them.
The two areas that best reflect my strong suits are respectful and inspiring. (Steadiness) Respect should not be taken lightly and people want others to show them that they are important. I am not the one to belittle, talk down to someone, embarrass the other person, or not acknowledge someone because they are not like me or do not hold a certain position. People respond in a negative manner and become very defensive when others treat them in any of the ways previously mention. I look at how I want others to consider when speaking and interacting with me. That is the way I have to try to handle myself when dealing with others. Taking calculated risks is what I do best because I cannot stand losing too much if the results do not outweigh the risks involved. I am also very critical on myself and can point out faults in a heartbeat. I have to analyze future actions before I act on anything because I do not want to go wrong or too far away from initial path. Repeating myself or actually running through multiple scenarios takes up a lot of time. Being overly critical on myself will eliminate some of that time that I cannot get back.
To begin, I am going to write about my weaknesses and how they transitioned into strengths. First, I remember after each assignment in class was introduced I
Other strengths include being self-confident, conscientious, diligent and determined. It was interesting to see my lower scores as well; the lowest average score was sensitivity (3.2), followed closely by self-assuredness and perception and empathy. Although I consider myself sensitive, I believe the sense of sensitivity does not apply as often towards others I interact with. For example, I often speak my mind and voice my opinion with little thought of the consequence or impact it might have on those around me. Thus, sensitivity is not one of my existing strengths, but rather an opportunity for growth. I also found it interesting to note how I scored significantly lower in the human skill, and higher in technical, which I did not expect. This score likely correlates with my score form the LTQ, which identified room for improvement in relating with
weaknesses that come along with it will help me understand who I am at a much more personal