Know Thyself

Assignment
In your blog, answer the following questions, each in a separate paragraph or series of paragraphs. You may use anecdotal evidence to illustrate your answers.

a) Explain what it means to know oneself; and discuss the value of this self-knowledge.
b) Discuss what you believe is your own weakness (or worst quality) and explain what, if anything, you have done to combat this weakness.
c) Discuss what you believe to be your strength (or best quality). Don't be modest here, just honest.
d) End by reflecting on what makes it so hard to think-- and write-- about one's own weaknesses and strengths. How do you feel about having to do this? Why? Explain.

To truly know oneself, one must be. Most people think that you cant listen to what others want you to be, you need to do things for you and only you. I believe that if you want to please people by changing yourself, that's part of what makes you, you.

My weakness would have to be that I'm too introverted and shy when I'm around strangers. I always try to be more social when meeting someone, or when I'm making conversation with a stranger, but it always comes out as forced conversation and just sounds awkward.

My strength might be that I'm loyal to my friends. I'm always thinking when given a task, what could I do to make things easier for so and so. For example, I'm in my bed at 11:00pm on a weekday. My mom walks by and reminds me that she needs the car and I cant drive to school tomorrow. I then remember I told my neighbor earlier that I'd give him a ride tomorrow. I would probably if faced with this immediately call my neighbor's cell phone and leave him texts if he doesn't answer. If he doesn't answer my texts, I would probably wake up a little bit earlier than normal and stop by his house to tell him.

I think that its hard to write about ones own strengths and weaknesses because personally, I don't reflect on my strengths at all. I might think about some of my weaknesses from time to time when the occassion comes up, but when I display one of my strengths, I dont need to think about it at all.