This document discusses self-reflection and personality traits. It defines self-reflection as humans exercising inner thought to learn about their nature, purpose, and essence. Self-reflection can be reflection-on-action, reflection-in-action, or critical self-reflection. Reflection-on-action involves analyzing past experiences, while reflection-in-action occurs in the moment. Critical self-reflection uses provocative questions to challenge understanding of oneself. The document also discusses five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
2. WHAT IS SELF REFLECTION
Human self-reflection is the ability for humans to exercise inner thought and a
willingness to learn more about their nature, purpose and essence. The great interest
which humanity has had in itself or natural Human self-reflection usually leads to
questioning the human condition and humankind as a whole.
Self-reflection is an awareness of consciousness mind.
Self reflection can be put into three groups
• Reflection-on-action
• Reflection-in-action
• Critical self-reflection
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4. REFLECTION -ON-ACTION
To reflect-on-action, you analyze your experiences after things happen in order
to fully understand and learn from them. Some questions to ask yourself include:
What did I set out to do?
What happened?
What did I do well?
How could I improve next time?
What can I take from this experience?
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6. REFLECTION -IN-ACTION
For reflect-in-action, you evaluate your self in the moment in
order to make corrections. Reflection-in-action can help you change
your style to better suit a situation. Some questions to use include:
What am I doing well?
How can I improve?
What do I notice?
7. CRITICAL SELF -
REFLECTION
Both reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action are powerful skills
But the most powerful skill is critical self-reflection. Critical self-
reflection, Is asking yourself tough, provocative questions that challenge
your understanding of yourself.
By asking these questions, you deepen your knowledge of yourself
and clarify how you want to live.
8. ASK YOURSELF
The Best way to reflect is to ask yourself questions that are thought provoking like:
What do I really, really want?
What are my most important values?
What are my beliefs?
Who am I at my best?
Who am I at my worst?
Who am I becoming?
What am I avoiding or resisting?
What am I most grateful for?
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10. PERSONALITY TRAITS
A personality trait is defined as:
• Habitual patterns and qualities of behaviour of any individual as
expressed by physical and mental activities and attitudes
Another important aspect of who you are is your personality.
Personality traits can be put into 5 categories.
• Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness,
Neuroticism
11. THE 5 TRAITS
Openness: Openness refers to how open you are to experiencing new things. Do you
enjoy new ideas or are you frightened of change?
Conscientiousness: Conscientiousness refers to how dedicated you are Or your work
ethic.
Extraversion: Extraversion asks how comfortable you are in the company of others?
Do like it by yourself or in a crowd?
Agreeableness: Do you try to get along with people or do you go out of your way to
start a fight?
Neuroticism: How emotionally stable are you? Do you get upset over the little things?
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