Newborn Babies Learn the World by The Influence of The People Around Them Essay

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    • How has communication with family, friends, teachers, or others influenced your self-concept, either in the past or now?
    • Describe an example of an experience that you have had with inaccurately perceiving other people’s communication.
    • What have you learned about the Power of Words in terms of shaping your own and others’ self-concepts and self-esteem?
    • Give an example of a time when someone’s word choice has had a powerful effect in your own life.



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    My family, friends, teachers, and other influencers have made a major impact on my communication in the past, and will in the future. In the book it says, “Early in life, the people who matter most to you—parents, siblings, teachers—help define your self-concept.” Self-concept is a significant feature of how you see yourself, therefore dictating your communication. My parents, especially growing up, always talked about my soccer abilities. At an early age I considered myself a soccer player, then grew up to be a D1 soccer player. For my teachers they always told me how good I was at science, so I believed my best subject was science. These little things have led to who I communicate with, and how I communicate with them. I communicate with my soccer teammates differently than how I communicate with my Chemistry lab partner. These significant people in my life have also helped me develop my beliefs, attitude, and values. Many of which I have gotten from being around them. Having these characteristics and morals, shapes who I am and how I convey who I am to other people by my communication in different situations. Simply, from them creating a type of mirror that I see myself as they do, has led to self-fulfilling prophecies, and self-verification theory.

    An experience I have with inaccurately perceived another person's communication is over the phone, especially texting. Texting is hard to exactly know what a person is trying to say or communicate to you, because you can’t tell tone. One specific experience was texting my sister. Her texts came off as very short, and backhanded one day. Thinking she was just being rude, I got an attitude which created a fight. Later on I found out she wasn’t trying to be rude. This minor miscommunication led to something much bigger than it needed to be. This is a very common problem in today's society.

    Words are a very powerful thing that have a drastic effect on other people.The book states, “People with high self-esteem report greater life satisfaction, communicate more positively with others, and experience more happiness in their relationships than do people with low self-esteem.” Spreading kind words, and having a positive effect on someone lets them to be themselves and flourish. However, negative and hurtful words can do the exact opposite. Not only will the kind of words and actions you put forward to other people, not only affect them but affect how they will act around you. I found the video, The Power of Words, really eye opening and inspiring. Just the use of different words, can have a drastic change in any circumstance. It can change your self-esteem by changing the words you say about yourself, and changes others by the words you say to them. By changing his sign from, “I’m blind please help,” to “It’s a beautiful day and I can't see it” drastically changed people's generosity towards him.

    Along with a majority of kids growing up, I was bullied. The negative words said and posted about me had a traumatic effect on me. It definitely changed my self-esteem and my self-concept in a very negative way. These words caused me to change how I talked to people and then lead them to viewing me differently. I became shy and introverted, which closed me off to a lot of people. I wasn’t the energetic and happy girl I once was. However, with positive, uplifting people I became that girl again.




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Communication with family, friends, or anyone else is what directly influences our perception of our own self-concept. Their reactions to you serve as a type of mirror in which you begin to see yourself as others see you. I think this phenomenon starts at an early age and can last well into adulthood or perhaps forever for some. In other words, communication with others, especially people you admire, is very important as it shapes your self-concept. Your self-concept is something that will play a crucial role in your life as illustrated in the Self-verification Theory.

It is an almost daily occurrence that I perceive someone's communication incorrectly. This happened today as I went through my local Arby's drive-through for my dinner. The girl at the window told me they were not currently accepting debit or credit cards and I perceived that they were only accepting debit or credit cards. I handed the girl my debit card and got a pretty odd look before realizing my mistake.

I have always known that words are very powerful, but I did not realize how much they affected someone's self-esteem and self-concept. Anything that affects these two concepts has a great bearing on the person's life. Words can be used to build a person up or tear a person down. This is one reason I always try to think before I speak.

The most memorable instance of someone's word choice impacting my life is the feedback I receive from my college professors. I took a class in Homeland Security last year and I considered the professor to very intelligent and experienced. After writing the final paper for his class, he offered some constructive criticism but more importantly, he bragged about my work. This meant a great deal to me as I looked up to him. This instance also helped reinforce my self-concept.






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Communication is obviously very important in our everyday lives, you always have to communicate someway or somehow no matter what you are doing. It has influenced me because i used to mail my friends letters but now we always just text back and forth or use twitter, facebook or other social media. The way of communicating is very different now from the way it used to be. I think an experience i have had before that still can happen anytime is when people text in capital letters instead of lowercase. To me this gives me the vibe or puts off that the person is mad or angry, when actually they may not have known they had it on, or it was just to get a point across using one capital word. The Power of Words video really touched me. I travel a lot and go to a lot of big cities and i always walk by and see things like that. It really just makes you think about things differently and knowing that just a simple change of the way you word something can give it a whole new meaning, both in good and bad ways. I cant think of anything off the top of my head but something that is often misconceived is when people say i hate you or something when hate is such a strong word and if you just worded it differently like im upset with you right now please give me some space, it comes off a lot differently.

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    first people anyone truly sees and perceives are their parents. The same was for
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