Comments on self reflexive exercise

The first thing you learn about yourself is that you can be defined in more than one way, and in each way you can choose to display one aspect of your personality when you feel like it. Sort of like the way in which a chameleon changes colour according to its surroundings.

Another important aspect of the self is that we are multifaceted. We have many qualities about ourselves that overlap onto each other, for instance we can use the word reliable to describe ourselves to someone we want to work for and to describe ourselves to someone we may have met.

Finally most importantly, we are in total control of how the world perceives us by how we demonstrate the characteristic features of ourselves that we deem as necessary. It seems that in our day to day encounters with each other, we show strangers our representative and only reveal our true selves much later on to them if they continue to interact with us.

Teekay