Raw Materials

Raw Materials

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Raw Materials

Introduction

The purpose of evaluating one’s “raw materials’ is to conclude what capacities, gifts, talents, and traits or qualities are. This following assessment will also include an investigation of interests, wishes, and inclinations. By calculating the positive and negative qualities and characteristics, one can conclude what, and key weaknesses and how they can affect the future (Weiner, Greene, 2017), personally and professionally, and how well or bad these raw materials can market themselves for a specific job or organization. Interests, passions, personality, core values, strengths, potential strengths, faults or bad habits are the classifications of raw materials that I will assess through online self-assessment tests as well as from opinions from my family and associates, so to aid me to define my raw materials.

Discussion

Raw Materials

Strengths

I believe I have many strengths, and because of my inclination or nature of perfection, I am constantly looking to use my strengths so to work more on my strengths and achieve perfection in them. My utmost strength to me was always my mind power or the ability to make things happen, because of that I have always been into situations that demand my mental capabilities or making things happen. I always enjoy things that require my mental abilities or making things happen. Other than that, I fulfill my commitments, and it is of serious importance to me, I never try to deceive or lie about myself or my work. To know more about myself, I conducted my self-assessment by using the Richard Step online test. According to the test, my major strength was Integrity. It means that I have an aptitude to keep my commitments. It also indicated that I have a tendency to avoid taking part in people who lie or do not fulfill their commitments. Also, I require little supervision in anything that needs to be done and that quality of my work. My other strength is self-motivation. I have a resilient self-concept, and I am always about more action and less talk. I am most operative when I have the feeling that I am in control or I am being trusted. Moreover, I am very good with people, I understand what other people are in need of or expects from me, and I try my best not to fail them. I am also very good with computers and can use any software easily. My close friends believe I am very good at explaining things or showing the big picture to others and even make them feel good. According to my family, I am very polite and control my emotions very well.

Potential Strengths

In my opinion, other than mental, I have many physical strengths as well, but there needs to be worked on regularly. I am a believer in practice, betterment, and perfection. If I am physically fit I feel happier, comfortable in any situation, active and more ambitious. I can do all of the things that I do much better if I work in my physical strengths as it adds to my mental strength. Also, I believe I have the capacity to listen and keep my calm in any situation but frequently, I find it difficult to listen to people who do not use common sense or talk logically. I believe I need to practice overcome or control my emotions more when listening. Most people believe that I am a very good listener, but I want to be even better. Furthermore, determination and focus was once my key strength, but presently I feel that I lack it because of various reasons. I am trying to focus again to renew my strength. I am very good at catching up with different tasks or responsibilities, but when it comes to doing one task for a very long and consistent period then I get somewhat bored, this is because I look for perfection and once I achieve it I want to move to the other task and perfect it. To get rid of boredom I need to work on some side tasks.

Faults or Bad Habits

Lack of focus when things are not going my way and impatience are my bad habits, and also as mentioned earlier, short temper for those who do not use logical reasoning. Self-development is always the key term for me in my personal and professional life. Whether it be a relationship or day to day activities, I always look for betterment in them. I am a kind of person who wants to get rid of all the imperfections or bad habit, this is why I have very few bad habits in me and those few I am constantly looking to change. Another fault, which is a strength in many cases as well is, thinking a lot and envisioning consequences. In some cases, it is very useful, but personally, it takes a lot of energy and wastes time. My companions usually tell me not to think and just go for certain things, and they might be right, but my overthinking or looking for perfection frequently results in time wastage. My friends complain that I do not share much with them, but for me, that is my nature, and that makes me a better planner.

Interests, Desires, Passions

Completing a task perfectly, surpassing or meeting people’s expectations and making people astonished motivates me the most. I like to do things in a perfect and most desirable, and ordered way. Perfection, innovation and something that is different and better inspires me. Also, people putting their trust in me inspires me and give me courage and happiness along with pressure, but I feed on pressure. I wish I have more opportunities to make things happen and learn, do and achieve more. My passion is to achieve perfection in everything I do, help the community, spread the knowledge, make myself and my surrounding better and be a person who does everything right and with a smile.

Personality

To know about my personality, I took some of the online assessment tests concerning personality, such as humanmetrics.com. According to the tests, I am moderately or maybe a little more introvert as I do not share my feelings and emotions usually; in addition, I work on my plans alone and vigorously and do not prefer to talk about it but rather show the results of my plans or strategies. The tests also revealed that I have a moderate preference for judging over perceiving. I try to perceive things and also judge things in accordance with statistics and logical reasoning. I believe I have a very good sense of perception, but I do not rely on it and always look for rational things as well and listen to others point of view before making any decision. The assessment also displayed that I have a slight preference for thinking over feeling.

To some people the personality of a person is attractive, and to some, it is repellant (Tyrer, Reed, & Crawford, 2015). Same is the case with me; this is because I have the aura that repels people whom I don’t like or who are not a good fit. But mostly, people feel very easy with me and trust me a lot with everything’s, those who are not near to me still say good things about me without knowing anything about me.

Core Values

My core beliefs comprise of respect, honesty, loyalty, integrity, health, religion, family, care for nature and its sustainability, peace, friendship and giving back to society and nature. All of these are very important to me, and I believe without any of these, life would not be very good. Everything is connected are the words that need to be understood. Doing good will bring to one own self and to others as well. I believe if the majority of people become honest, loyal, and righteous and give back to nature and community, the world will change swiftly. I am the kind of person who hates to waste water, food or anything thing that is useful to human beings or nature. I do not prefer to use anything that would not make a good enough difference in my life or anyone else's; I would prefer to leave it for someone who can make a difference with it. I believe every religion is based on truth if analyzed and understood truly and that the creator has made everything balanced and we need to be at peace with everything's in nature; the only things that need to be changed or improved is oneself.

The online assessments mostly revealed what I expected. However, my family and friends gave me more positive responses than I expected, I am very hard on myself, and I praise myself rarely. So good feedback from friends is always unexpected for me, but I always feel I know more about myself than anyone else and that is why my opinions about me rarely change and changes only when I prove different to myself and not to people.

Synthesis and Summary

My trust in my mental capacities, my focus on quality, honesty, loyalty, and integrity are such natural attributes to me that they cannot easy to be challenged or changed by my weaknesses or surroundings. However, the lack of focus or interest is the only thing that might make things not work for me. Secondly, lack of patience for those who do not understand reason rationally is one bad habit I am working on, and this is the thing that in my opinions stops me from teaching them something good or from listening to them for an extended period. Other than these, I believe I am good for those who stress on loyalty, quality, perfection, integrity, and a good personality.

References

Tyrer, P., Reed, G. M., & Crawford, M. J. (2015). Classification, assessment, prevalence, and effect of personality disorder. The Lancet, 385(9969), 717-726.

Weiner, I. B., & Greene, R. L. (2017). Handbook of personality assessment. John Wiley & Sons.