get to know yourself
By dandan07
@dandan07 (1906)
China
September 20, 2011 9:00am CST
Know yourself is a very important and may be the hardest part in our life. Several days ago, I think i know myself well, but know I find it is not real.
Yesterday the job hunting season began, so I did a personality test online to help me know what kind of jobs are suitable for me. The test result makes me feel astonished. For it is quite right but different from what I realized about myself.
I used to think that I am a person with no ambition and have problems in communicate with other people and do not own enough influence on other people. But result shows that I am a person with strong desire of success and communication skill is above average and can have influence other people while do not let other feel that.
But look over the result, I think it is really me, and I find that I do not really know my ability in the past time, and I should try to know myself again and make full use of my talent in the future.
Is there any time that you find out that you are so different from you have known?
6 responses
@larrychen (165)
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21 Sep 11
It's really important for us to know ourselves well, not only for a suitable job but also for many many things in our life. What a pity it is that I never tried to get to know what a person I am in my life. Most of the time, I am busy with my work in the working time, sometimes even in the spare time I have to continue my work. There is not much time left for me to think about such questions, such as why I am here, what I am doing every day, whether what I do now is worthy of my time.
It's the time for me, I know. Thanks for such a topic here. I feel that I know so little about myself, let alone others. There must be some methods to do this.
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@JOMARAVILLA (25)
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21 Sep 11
Yes, that is true I have experienced it also. But I think the exam is true and this characteristic will just come out from you if you will trust yourself and learn how you can expose these traits of yours. You have the responsibility to achive these traits. And once that you do not do your responsibilty all these traits will be gone to waste.
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@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
20 Sep 11
i always reserve a space for me to be surprised. and i like to have something uncertain about me. but the core and basic tendencies and values are held up in esteemed position. i know how i will behave in certain situations. that enables me to be confident to face the challenges in front of me. however, i am still learning about myself.
@GemmaR (8517)
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20 Sep 11
I think that we spend far too much time analysing other people in our lives and talking about them behind their backs; to the extent that we no longer recognise our own personality. If we learn things about ourselves, then this will mean that we are able to understand ourselves a little bit more and therefore make ourselves better people based upon the things that we've learned. We would be able to solve many of our problems if we could just take the time to know ourselves better than we do at the moment.
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@sinawaliboy (271)
• Philippines
28 Sep 11
I always believe in the saying "no ypurself and love yourself". Not that I'm being selfish but without being to appreciate and love yourself, you won't be able to do the same to others. It will always start from within you. Ironically, the most difficult spul to understand is one's self. That is why we have to spend time by ourselves and do some reflecting.
@huilichan8 (1378)
• Singapore
20 Sep 11
Not that I remember...in fact, I was taught the importance of self-awareness during my university days...so, at least from that time onwards, I have always been very aware of my own strengths and weaknesses.
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