Personal Narrative: My Strengths Of Me

Starting high school can be a little scary, especially when you have no guidance from siblings, like me, being the first one from my family to have an education. But that did not stop me from succeeding, I?ve always been confident and determined. I?m an enthusiastic when it comes to trying new things. Who would have thought I was going to be a good athlete plus a book geek, when in my past years I was just a regular kid. I was pretty excited about joining a club that had a connection with high school, that way I didn?t have to start from zero, I always want to be a step ahead. Fortunately, in summer, a high school coach was recruiting freshmen for running either cross country or track, they both involve running, so I considered it like the same sport with different timing. And this is when it all started. Running

As an incoming freshmen my strengths as a writer are a wide vocabulary , word usage, and writing argumentative essays. I feel with having strength in those areas allows me to be a successful write, with success comes some weakness. My weaknesses are grammar, punctuation, spelling ,and thesis statements. I have a hard time trying to depict what is the best punctuation when writing. All throughout grade school and high school I've always been an underachiever in spelling. English and writing are my least strongest subjects. I floundered in high school with these subjects. In my personal opinion I don't think my high school prepared us well enough for writing on the college level.  I think that the areas that I struggle are very basic levels of

One of my strengths as a writer is when I start to write I get into a writing flow, it is when someone's thoughts and writing feel like they are completely in sync as they write, and I am sure that almost everyone gets into a flow when they get focused enough. The problem for me is getting into that writing flow in the first place. I am talking about the common writer's block; also, another weakness that I found when I was in English N50 is that I have a particularly hard time writing about myself. I did improve over the course, but I still struggle. The last skill that I exceeded in my last English class is proofreading other classmates work, and that was either because I truly am good at proofreading, or it was because there was a lot of

My primary strengths as a writer is using logos in my articles. I prefer to explain my idea logically, and prove my view by providing sufficient evidence and examples. So I like analyzing the news and social phenomenon so that I can understand the reason why these things happened behind the events.

I believe that my competency strengths are teamwork, leadership and communication also referred to as T.L.C. A goal cannot be completed by one person, a leader must not only trust that their team can complete the goal, but trust that they will be able to work together. Communication is also essential for leaders because it helps everyone understand what goals needs to be accomplished and what would be the best way to accomplish the goal. communication is essential because it allows me to form a bond with my team members and get to know everyone's personal strengths and weaknesses. I value everyone on the team and want to make sure that we are utilizing our strengths and improving our weaknesses. At the end of the day my goal as a leader is

If you were to ask me what empathy is, I would say that it is the most confusing concept in the nature of emotions. Empathy can be portrayed and thought of in several different forms: emotional, compassionate, and cognitive. I believe that empathy is a necessary and an important emotion for people to feel towards one and another, even if it consists of getting upset or mad due to someone else’s feelings. I personally feel empathetic for people every day because I am very interpersonal. However, the time I felt the most empathetic for someone was a few years back when my grandpa had passed away due to a stroke.

Empathy involves understanding other people’s feelings and relating to them, not my strongest quality. At times, I find myself oblivious to other’s emotions which results in a lack of communication. Viewing situations from a perspective other than mine definitely requires plenty of emotional intelligence. I am a feel, act, then think person, therefore, I am highly aware of my own feelings but that means I disregard everyone else’s.

Perhaps my story is different than Gomez’s story, but the feeling of inferiority I experienced was almost the same. However, I didn’t have negative images of myself like Gomez and his group had " It’s clear now that we entered the contest with negative images of ourselves."(Gomez 204) I entered this challenge with a positive image of myself, and I didn’t ever feel a shame or in less rank than anyone. I knew before I started that job that I could face huge challenge. This positive attitude helped me find out a lot about myself, and my ability to deal with insulting situations. I entered that world with receiving offensive sights and remarks, and left it with earning a lot of respect and honor.

In my first semester in College, a summer semester, I did not do as well as I wanted to but I made up my mind that I will have A’s in all my other classes, and I have been able to achieve my goal so far. I am determined and I think that is the most important trait that has been helping me in my education, and that will help me in my future career. Just as determination made Edison keep trying after many failures, it keeps me focused and able to tackle challenges that I face in my academics and in pursuing my career. I want to become a doctor. Though, I know getting into medical school is highly competitive and challenging to go through, I am resolute.

There are four imporant attributes I am currently developing. First is physical strength. I understand that there is rigorous physical training to be an astronaut; I take ballet 4 days a week, and last summer, I attended a ballet intensive in Nashville where I danced about 42 hours per week for 5 weeks. Ballet demands immense strength, and building that strength requires mental strenth, the second attribute. Traveling to Mars takes a lot of perseverance, and every time I keep dancing when I want to stop, my tenacity builds. My perseverance also expands with every challenging problem I encounter, since I always want to find the answer; I keep going until I can solve the challenge, which sides by the third attribute, creative problem solving.

I believe my attributes that I have possessed over the years are the ability for me to look beyond a person’s limitations and try not to past judgment. As a person who is nurture to everyone and one who strongly believes that everyone is important no matter their physical appearance, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, class, and race no one is neither weak or inferior to me. I believe it is important to everyone to feel love and appreciate regardless of their limitations.

Well since it's a risk, I'll go for it. I will say one thing that no one knows about me. I might appear okay on the outside but on the inside, I'm just an insecure kid trying to find her way in the world. I try to fix other people's problem and most time neglecting my own. Most people think that everything is going smooth for me not knowing that there is a turmoil brewing inside me trying to find a light, seeking for assurance that all is gonna be well. A friend once asked me to tell him more about me. Laughing, I started to talk but nothing came out.

In the first telling of my personal narrative, I did not consider including what had led me to a point where I began to embrace my identities and become proud of my heritage as Korean. There were many factors that led me to be who I am today. The reason for leaving out the information was because there were so many people and occurrences that led me to the point where I am now. For example, moving to different elementary school where there were more diverse body of students, annually performing at the Mosaic in the Korean pavilion, my parents being a positive role model, and becoming a volunteer teacher at the Korean Language School are some of the reasons which have led me to be who I am today. As I was surrounded by people who were interested

That is, until I was nine and fainted at the sight of my own blood when I cut my finger.

Empathy is defined as in Chapter 1 as “thinking and feelings what you perceive another to be thinking and feeling.” [p. 28]. I believe that I can be empathetic to people because I think about the types of situations that the other person is in and how they feel about those situations. For example, my friend was having a really hard time with her boyfriend and how he treated her when they were in front of a group of his friends. He treated her like they were not dating or even together because his friends would always