Essays on Self-Development

Success and achievement of the dreams and goals do not tend to come by accident, but rather as a result of great efforts and strong determination. The starting point to self-realization and personal fulfillment is by no means self-awareness, understanding of personal values, strength, and weaknesses, as well as identifying one's passions and interests in a certain professional field, on the basis of which certain goals are defined and set. Thereby considering one's life as a project and reflecting on some core issues in self-management is by far essential activity for anyone who strives to advance in one's life ...

The notion of leadership is often explained and treated differently, remaining one of the most complex and profound concepts in the modern world. Nonetheless, that doesn’t diminish its great significance and outstanding relevance. With a great number of global issues which keep appearing and penetrating our lives and affecting them adversely, leadership is frequently viewed as a key to the world's problems, its ultimate cure and solution to the emerging challenges. Thereby leadership as a human feature and competency is considered a skill that the world critically needs nowadays, and the future generation of leaders is what the ...

How theories of Motivation and the Self and Organizational Culture are represented in the film The internship (2013)? If to consider human life as his/her movement forward on the path of development, we can say that life is a constant process of overcoming the new boundaries, to achieve the best results, self-development and personal growth. In this process, one of the dominant roles is played by the question of the meaning of actions and deeds, which are made by people. What does have an impact on human activity and his/her behavior? For what does the person do something? ...

(Doctoral students must include the following on the title page instead: The essential task of leaders is to perfect how the things work in the organization. Changing the way “work works” is the essential foundation of leadership, according to Peter Cook (Cook, 2009). Therefore, the leader is the person who takes the organization to the next stage of development and improves processes to make them more effective and functional. This statement is true for several types of organization, such as bands, charities, and for-profit companies. The Five L qualities of leaders are based on the activities they engage in ...

Question 4: Explaining the East Asian Conception of Human Nature

Introduction The problem of Human Nature has always been a point of hot discussions among the Western and Eastern philosophers. Although there are some theoretical discrepancies among members of the different philosophical schools, the majority of them concur that the idea of human nature encompasses the fusion of certain distinguishing characteristics, which a human possesses irrespective of his/her cultural background. Despite the fact that the nature of these characteristics, approaches to measuring them and understanding the components of this metaphysical phenomenon are not clearly defined in any philosophical school yet, there is a strong opinion in the both Eastern ...

Human personality is formed mainly through relations with other people, the community and society. The process of forming human individuality continues for the whole life. The most intensively the personality is up to the age of 18, as it is the most suitable stage of life for absorbing the knowledge and rules of behavior in the society. Human personality is a concept that expresses the social essence of the person, the complex characterizing human features, properties, relations, moral and spiritual world, formed in the course of self-development, cooperation with social communities and separate individuals. Teenagers belong to the most ...

In the course of time the society has changed much – people are fighting for their rights and for the equality. This struggle has become prior in every sphere of life as everyone wants to be treated on equal terms with other people. Nowadays most people following the democratic principles have the right to express their position in the society. This issue touches the problem of gender equality which is commonly discussed in the world. In today’s democratic society women do everything for being treated equally with men. It is quite difficult to break the stereotypes of the society ...

Every person goes through many changes during his life: his body and mind change and develop because of the influence from society he lives in. The most common changes are cognitive, physical and social, which are inevitable. To the middle of adulthood one experiences his improvement clearly, and accepts the changes as they should be. The understanding and perception of the peculiarities of self-development are the most important issues when discussing human individuality. This paper is to examine social, physical and cognitive changes in middle adulthood for both women and men. The changes acquired with age influence every muscle ...

Katie Donoviel

The Impact of Social Media on Teenagers Prospectus Social media is a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly popular during last time, especially among young people. It is an issue that separates the points of view, as some people regard it as being an amazing phenomenon, but others are worried about its influence on the lives of people. There are several factors that are necessary to discuss, speaking about pros and cons of social media impact on the teenagers, such as self-development and creativity, health and wellness, anonymity and easiness of communication in social networks, business and study development of ...

Abstract:

This formal report focuses on self-reflection and the importance of personal development planning for students and managers. This focus underlines the necessity to define the concepts of self-reflection and Personal Development Planning and critically assess the ways they benefit students and managers. The report is divided into two primary sections: Self-reflection (1) and Personal Development Planning (2) that are, in their turn, subdivided into four and, respectively, three sub-sections. The materials used for composing this formal report include peer-reviewed journal articles, a book, and web-resources that focus upon the topics of self-reflection and PDP, their benefits and best implementation ...

Write a brief description of the major findings from the paper

The current study examined how much people think and what emotional experience they have about their behavior when they perform habitual actions or actions, behaviors which are not habitual for them. As it was supposed, results of the study demonstrated that when a person performs habitual actions one`s thoughts are less likely to correspond to one`s actions. On the contrary, when a person performs some novelty actions in less stable or variable context this person is more likely to think about one`s actions or, in other words, thoughts and actions correspond to each other.

Identify any strengths or limitations of the research design or methods

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Analysis of Waldorf

Waldorf Education is a private, developmental curriculum focused on teaching to the holistic needs of children.  Rudolf Steiner developed Waldorf education in the early 20th Century to create a learning environment focused on artistic learning and creative thinking.  Waldorf schools, also referred to as Steiner schools, exist in 91 countries and there are about 1,000 schools in total (Costello-Dougherty, 2009).  Waldorf schools vary in sizes but some have programs from preschool through high school (DeLuca & Hughes, 2014).  As children pass through a series of stages of development, Waldorf curriculum focuses on teaching the right thing at the right ...

Nowadays, Internet has become firmly established in the life of the society as a global information system. Being present in practically every home, Internet has considerably expanded the opportunities in the process of information search and exchange, communication between people, especially the so-called social networking sites or social media, which are very popular among people of all ages, especially among children and teenagers. Communication plays an important role for the development of the individual at each age stage, but for young people communication and interpersonal relations are a vital factor in the formation of their personality. The special role ...

Introduction

The study of mathematics plays a backbone role in education, developing human cognitive abilities, including logical thinking abilities, affecting the teaching of other disciplines. High-quality mathematics education is necessary for everyone for his/her successful life in modern society. Modern educational concepts declare the creative development of the individual, but the practical implementation of this goal is not well worked out, at the same time school teacher is obliged to solve the problem. In practice, even strong students who have a good mathematical thinking and great store of knowledge, are not ready to work in the situations new for them, ...

The United States in the eyes of Europeans was an amazing country where democracy prevailed, instead of a monarchy, with no division into classes. In the United States, there was the freedom of conscience and tolerance. Thus, Americans have unprecedented freedom for the rest of the world. At that time of the Golden Youth and Great Gatsby the American Dream arose. It had its causes and long-lasting effects. The essay is going to discuss what is the American Dream and what cause-effect relationship does it have today. First of all, it is important to understand in full the meaning ...

Spring, 2016

I was raised in the conservative Christian family in the atmosphere of strict rules and respect toward elder people, especially toward parents. My mother is a nurse and my father is a pharmacist. I also have one younger and one elder brother. My parents raised me and my brothers using authoritative parental style. They were highly controlling and demanding and disciplined us for minor misconducts. However, I`m very glad that my parents were so strict, demanding and controlling they made me a good and respectful person. The theory of Skinner can be applied to how my parents raised ...