Essays on Self Esteem Page 8

Self-awareness is an essential factor for being able to maintain a healthy lifestyle, as it is beneficial for the mind and body. To be self-aware is to have conscious knowledge of one’s actions, thoughts, feelings and desires. As someone who may be classified as a young adult, it is essential to be able to be…

Courage, as discussed in Rollo May’s, Courage to Create, is an art that needs mastering and practicing in life. In comparison to Sartre’s work ‘Mauvaise Fois’, translated as, ‘Bad Faith’, where courage and bad faith do not mix in a single inner self. Rollo May agrees with influential philosophers such as Nietzsche and Sartre that…

Throughout many fields not one field has defined self. They have offered a range of viewpoints and have struggled to identify the essence of the self. The concepts of self are self as a soul, an unfolding of innate potentials, an organizing activity, a cognitive structure, a process of shared symbolic activity or a flow…

The ways that your mind perceives happiness are interesting in their own unique way. There is one thing everyone wants and that is happiness. There is an issue with this. Is your happiness consisted of what satisfies you or the satisfaction of others? There is a concept discussed in Jonathan Haidt’s book The Happiness Hypothesis…

Nationalism is a modern political ideology that creates a devotion to one’s culture and is the belief that from acting independent instead of communally will benefit nations which highlight national goals rather than international ones. Nationalism didn’t start till around the 17th, and 18th centuries which is because there was no concept of what a…

The two theories of motivation I have chosen to compare are Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory and Clayton Alderfer’s ERG theory, which is also based on needs. Maslow’s theory is based on five levels of individual needs. Those levels are further broken down into two tiers, lower-order needs and higher-order needs. This theory is…

In the Keirsey Temperament Test, my personality type was called “Guardian.” Guardians are known to have lifelong loyal mates and friends, very dependable, disciplined, and meticulous. They are not good at “going with the flow,” but thrives in structured schedules and daily routines. I honestly felt like I was reading about my own personal descriptions….

The Personalities test leans closer toward a personality test, rather than a leadership assessment. However, there are leadership areas which allow you to see how your personality affects your leadership style.  This instrument has combined aspects from Myers-Briggs for straightforwardness and an interpretation of the Big Five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism…

            Over the years, intercultural communication has become a trend as more and more companies are realizing the fact that in order to become globally competitive, they need to adhere to cultural diversity in the workplace. Handling intercultural issues is important because diversity is now very evident in any field of endeavour—in the workplace, in…

The Myers- Brigg type indicator is a self-assessment test done to understand one’s own preference which they choose in several things. This report also discusses one’s work style, preferences at work, communication style and personality type. The personality type is categorized under four pairs of opposite preferences such as extraversion and introversion, sensing and intuition,…