Essays on Finding Yourself

There is a famous Chinese saying: people are valuable because of self-knowledge. To know oneself is to know about yourself and to understand yourself. Gold cannot be pure and man cannot be perfect. In real life, everyone has his own advantages and disadvantages, which is normal and inevitable. Only by recognizing our strengths and weaknesses…

When someone makes the statement of ‘looking to Alter their consciousness’, typically they are looking to experience a state of acceptance, and highness. Altering the state of consciousness for most people would be the desire for complete contentment with the moment they are currently in, and for the ability to stay in that conscious awareness…

As Charles Wright, and my mother once said: “Express yourself!” For some people, expression comes easily like how water flows from a spring, or someone recalling a funny story over the family dinner table, with no hesitation. I, on the other hand, cannot see a more daunting task than having to put what I am…

Maximize Your Potential is full of insights and best practices that every creative professional should know. The point that really hit home for me is: “Success, has far less to do with figuring out exactly what the right next move is and far more to do with serendipity and randomness.” Comedian Milton Berle used to…

Have you ever at any point felt that you needed to change yourself to fit in? It is definitely agreeable that everyone is being put under pressure to be someone that they are not. Sometimes you feel like if you do something a certain way then you feel you are not going to be considered…

Self-disclosure is defined as the process of revealing personal information about oneself to others. Self-disclosure, by which two persons get to know each other, isconsidered as a key of developing closeness and intimacy with others, including friends, coworkers, romantic partners, and family members. Social penetration theory states that as we get to know someone, we…

Reflective practice is when you can look back at your experience and review what can be done better in order to improve. The aim of reflective practice is to develop yourself as a nurse in the healthcare profession. This is to work on and improve personal and physical skills that you may lack, to better…

I moved to Farmington Hills, Michigan when I was 14 years old after leaving the only place I’d ever known. When I started school here I was very shy and quiet because I didn’t know anyone, but as time went on I made a few friends, meet new people, and started my new life here….

I’ve spent most of my years as a student not knowing what I would do with my life, or what I would study in college. I believed that I would figure it out with time. I also believed that my interests would guide my choice of education. Without interest, education is useless, simply because one…