Writer’s choice

Posted: December 11th, 2013

Chapter 2 – select whichever one you like and focus on how the characters were or were not self-aware and how that impacted their interpersonal relationships.

Movie: Good Will Hunting; Breakfast Club; or Stand by Me*

Self-Awareness:
People want to protect their weaknesses by putting a protection wall to hide their inner core. We are afraid of knowing more than the need to know, but in order to increase self-awareness we need to emphasize the need to know. There are some ways that can help gain greater self-awareness.
Solicit feedback is one way of improving self-awareness. Getting honest feedback from others but it has to be someone that you can trust and open up to.
Reflection is another way that helps, looking over past experiences or situations in order to better your knowledge and not repeat the same mistakes, reflection can be in many forms, either private or others.
Writing your thoughts in a journal on a daily basis helps in different ways, like looking at it in a different perspective, rereading older entries helps you improve by looking at how much you have developed, and finally it could help you with leadership experience to use them as reference for a pep talk.
A blog is chronological order of a journal that is post on the Internet. It is a new way of keeping a journal but this is to benefit people that are going through the same thing as you.