Self Awareness Reflection

After attending my first lessons in management and strategy, I looked at all the course slides and article readings to start thinking about self-awareness.So what is self-awareness?I think it is a process that helps you get to know about your strengths and your weakness, your values and belief systems, your preference and your personality, and the most important part that is your ability.Then what are the benefits we can obtain from this process?Rothman(1999)suggests that increased awareness brings increased openness to other ways of thinking and a greater insight into other kinds of life experience.Just like every time I tell my friends,”try to get a job not only you like, but also you are good at”, people need to know their preferences and …show more content…
I got 75% in Expressiveness shows that I am probably talkative, outgoing, and lively.And the report even mentions that I may be comfortable attracting attention to yourself.So it is quite interesting that once I started to think about my weakness, the first thing came to my mind is that I really need to improve my networking skills.While the existence of the paradox makes me a little bit confusing that whether the Profile is wrong, or I am a hidden talkative person?Then I went to ask my family and my close friends that am I talkative or quiet during most of the time, they all prefer to say that I am talkative, the result together with the Profile made me feel struggled, and I tried to get the explanation from my friends since they were strangers to me at first, so there must be something that I did in the past to make them feel I am talkative and also easily to get along with.After the consultation with my friends and I found out that they all mentioned that they are the first person to break the ice, which means they are the person start the conversation with me first, then we have the opportunities to be friends and to get known each other.So actually I do not have a problem with communication, the real problem is that I am too shy to talk to strangers at first place, I feel more comfortable to wait for others to talk to me first.So once I found the weakness about myself, I think I must be able to change the way when I meet strangers or I know the importance of being active during networking sessions with potential employer and clients, so I will try to attend more workshops and networking sessions.And I think just because I am too shy sometimes when I make a