Applying Psychology in My Life
Psychology pays an important role in our daily lives as it helps people understand about how mind and body work together. Personality on the other hand is the differences that exist among individual leading to the varied characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and how they behave. For over 2000 years there have been continued research on personality psychology in the effort of establishing why the difference exist among individuals and population and what defines the differences. There are several factors that contribute to the person one becomes such as genetics, life experiences and upbringings.
Since personality arises from within a person, it is evident that its is made up of thoughts, feelings and behaviors thereby indicating that psychology defines personality. Understanding human behavior and mind influences how we respond to the environment around us. When one is exposed to certain experiences at some point of their lives, how well they react to it and hoe their mind handles it, end up shaping our lives. This leads to development of certain deep-rooted beliefs, way of thinking and needs. In order to meet these needs and work along the newly developed beliefs one end up developing a certain personality trait. For example, among my strongest personality is ambitiousness as a result of my urge to become rich. This developed as a result of financial insecurity felt when I was young as my parents always worried about money. Additionally, through psychology one can develop any kind of personality as well as eliminate those they perceive wrong.
Personality traits are the consistent internal characteristics that develop as a result of attitude, feelings, pattern of behavior and the habits that an individual possesses at certain stages of life. The traits vary depending on individuals and in most cases, it also ends up changing within an individual depending on the environment that surrounds them. While personality tends to remain consistent in the larger part of our lives, the traits may change according to age and environment.
Since the mind is a reservoir of thoughts, feelings and memories, it ends up determining how we respond to certain tasks. Therefore, when one is exposed to the daily life experiences, how well we respond to them is dependent on how the mind interpret it in comparison to what is in the memory storage. Therefore, to understanding the personal traits a person possesses, one has to analyze their mind. For example, when a person is exposed to bullying especially at a young age, they develop an urge to become strong to defend themselves. Therefore, this people end up taking martial arts of participating in body building activities such as going to the gym. Notably, what a person become in terms of personality trait is determined by their mind and behaviors.
Personality traits are fundamental in relation to how we relate with the world and the environment around us. Notably, academic performance is an access of how much an educational goal have been attained. Therefore, due to the difference in traits people perform better as some understand certain areas better than other. Additionally, depending personality of an individual defines their interest and hence depending on the extent to which one is interested in academic performance, different grades are realized.
In comparison to the big five personality traits which are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeable and neuroticism, student in the various categories perform differently. My performance in class may be attributed to the fact that my traits can be classified on openness. Those people on this trait are attributed to imaginations and insight and hence in most cases they tend to have a broad range of interests. Additionally, they possess high levels of curiosity and are eager to learn new thing as well as get exposed to new experiences. This leads to my interest especially in scientific subjects leading to my high grades. Additionally, I may be ranked among people possessing conscientiousness character as my performance in most cases is backed up my character of being organized and planning ahead as am always mindful of the deadlines.
Success in education is not attained lightly as in most cases it is associated with sacrifices, hard work and commitment. There are several approaches that would ensure success in studies such as improved self-management skills. In most cases, balancing between school and family life is challenging. with the limited time that is available in the evening where one has to meet the need of their family, rest and attend to assignments it becomes a challenge to balance without neglecting others. In such cases, to realize success in one’s studies there is a need to create a timetable to share the time available among the tasks to determine which to prioritize and which to leave out.
Additionally, another approach that may be adopted include improved thinking skills that opens the world of creative thinking, creativity and innovation. Critical thinking allows the students to make informed decision as one has to analyze the advantages and consequences before undertaking any task. Additionally, creativity and innovation allow student to become more absorbed in learning to acquire the skills required to accomplish the new task. This leads to improved performances among the students as through this they can improve their research skills which is key to better results.