Personal Reflection Of A Personal Concepts In A Social Psychology Class

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During my childhood, I was not able to learn social skills with my peers because they were making fun of me about physical disability. Most people assumed that I could not be socialize with other people because they thought that I was a different from them. As I learned the concepts in social psychology class that I need to learn how to approach the peers because that is the one of the important ways to make friends and get along with them by finding common so that I should have been have fun with them better. However, I did not have enough self esteem so that I did not have any growth mindset or fixed mindset in order to fix my behavior because I was not motivated myself to thinking about to change my behavior at that time.
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I become very introvert as within personality, because my peers were not accept me as who I am and they did not play any online games with me too. I thought that nobody would understand my feelings because they did not want to have any conversations with me nor not letting me join in any groups so I become more interverted and hide my emotions from other people including the family members. I was also stuck in fixed mindset that I could not get along with other people because they were always judging me within my disability so that I could not get out of this infinite loop that set it my mind long time …show more content…
I learned how to recover from my self esteem because many people were support me to do well on other things, because they encouraged me to think better and make me believe that I could actually accomplished all the time. However, there are some things let me down because some people might dislikes me as I am but I will keep myself to be more exterverted to hang out with them better. This is the one of the concept that self concept because I am currently learning so that I could gain some knowledge to support that I could develop the internal standards and values. However, I will not be get into bad influence from other people such as smoking, drinking really hard because that is not encourage to follow as with peers. Also, those behaviors were leading me into bad health conditions all the time. Therefore, I will make sure that I will keep myself with healthy position and be brave about such actions to participate in some

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