I believe I am calm because of how people react to my natural disposition. I remember one specific event in high school where a student sitting in front of me would start doing random things to see how I would react. Sometimes they would try to upset me and other times they would try to do things to get me excited, but no matter what they did I kept a straight face and responded rationally. It was about 2 months later when this student told me I was the calmest person they have ever met, because I never overreacted to anything. This is not the only instance where I have been calm, I have had numerous other people confirm this concept to me. This is part of what reassures self-concept, this the constant and numerous appraisals of others.
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In the 3rd grade every student in my school participated in a an art contest and I won first place. In the 4th and 5th grade was given the award of best artist in my grade by the art teacher. Then again in high school, I was voted to be the most artistic of my class as a senior superlative, and won. All of the future events happened only because after I won in the 3rd grade I began practicing drawings everyday to maintain the title of ‘best’. I created a self-fulfilling prophecy for myself, I kept the idea of ‘this is something I can do’ and continued with it, as a result I was successful and still am to this day. As I got older I watched much better artists, which is why I don’t consider myself great. I feel I am incapable at English because it has always been my lowest grade in any school subject. All throughout middle I have missed having straight A’s because in English I was always one point away from any A. For me, English became a bad stigma. I know being one point away from an A doesn’t make me bad at English, but it is extremely frustrating. I created a negative self-fulfilling prophecy around English because I had some many negative thoughts about it. I was psyching myself out every time I had to take English, which reflected in my
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In the 3rd grade every student in my school participated in a an art contest and I won first place. In the 4th and 5th grade was given the award of best artist in my grade by the art teacher. Then again in high school, I was voted to be the most artistic of my class as a senior superlative, and won. All of the future events happened only because after I won in the 3rd grade I began practicing drawings everyday to maintain the title of ‘best’. I created a self-fulfilling prophecy for myself, I kept the idea of ‘this is something I can do’ and continued with it, as a result I was successful and still am to this day. As I got older I watched much better artists, which is why I don’t consider myself great. I feel I am incapable at English because it has always been my lowest grade in any school subject. All throughout middle I have missed having straight A’s because in English I was always one point away from any A. For me, English became a bad stigma. I know being one point away from an A doesn’t make me bad at English, but it is extremely frustrating. I created a negative self-fulfilling prophecy around English because I had some many negative thoughts about it. I was psyching myself out every time I had to take English, which reflected in my