Self-Awarness in College

What is Self awareness?

It is the ability to read one’s emotion and recognize their impact while using guts feeling to guide decisions. It includes recognition of our personality, our strengths and weaknesses, our likes and dislikes. Developing self-awareness can help us to recognize when we are stressed or under pressure. It is also often a prerequisite for effective communication and interpersonal relations, as well as for developing empathy for others. Self awareness is the ability to option or choice to choose thoughts being thought rather than simply thinking the thoughts that are stimulated from the accumulative events leading up to the circumstances of the moment.

Why is self awareness important?

If you want to change your life in any way you need to know yourself before you can act. You need to know what you need to do to head in the right direction and you can’t do that until you know yourself.

In addition, being self aware will mean that you will be better able to choose a suitable career which will satisfy you. Self awareness can enrich your life because you can move closer to your values and realizing your dreams. Becoming self aware does not mean being selfish though. Discovering the inner you will enable you to give more of yourself to others and this will benefit your relationships as well as helping to build your self esteem and confidence as you become true to yourself.

As you grow in self awareness, you will better understand why you feel, what you feel and why you behave as you behave. That understanding then gives you the opportunity and freedom to change those things you’d like to change about yourself and create the life you want. If you fully know who you are, self acceptance and change become possible.

Thesis statement: Self-awareness is being aware of who you are, and how you will present your self to a new environment.

This paper will show how graduating high school balance their emotions in a given situation. Going to a new environment will be a challenge where in you have to use your social skills to present yourself to others, and if you are not aware of what that situation are. It will be hard for you to cope up and adjust. Being self aware can balance your needs of adapting and adjusting while being your regular self. There are reasons why self awareness is important in your life, and how this is developed and use for your social needs. Developing self awareness can be hard like developing a character or personality because it is based on who you are, and what is common for you. But when you develop your self awareness you will be like a new and positive person.

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” – Tao Tzu

How can graduating students develop Self-awareness in College?

• Don’t be too shy, reach out to people have a conversation.
• Have the courage to express your thoughts.
• Be social to others, don’t get embarrass
• Start with a friend, and then join a small group. Don’t be afraid to speak out your emotions to others.
• Don’t feel embarrass, because people make mistakes but make the most decision with proper interaction.
• Don’t try to have a social-phobia and interact with people reach out and share your thoughts.
• Don’t be afraid to embarrass yourself once in a while.
• Have confidence and approach a person that you don’t know and have a short conversation. Exchange contacts and positive words and later you will have a new friend to add in the circle of friend that you have.

An Emotional Intellect person knows his/her own levels of self-awareness and this is use in how to know of how aware you are or how much courage you have to approach and have a social interaction with people in a new environment.

How can graduating high school student manage their Self-awareness?

“Self management involves controlling one’s emotions and impulses and adapting to changing circumstances + Self-awareness involves the ability to read one’s emotion and recognize their impact while using guts feeling to guide decisions.”

When you recognize your emotions, you should also know to control it and adapt to changes. There should be understanding between you and your friends and recognize each others emotions. Be aware of what kind of emotion you express that your friends would understand why you are expressing that emotion. Manage your self awareness and slowly adapt the new environment you take.