Description
Answer the following question follow the direction an answering the question:
PURPOSE: This assignment is designed to help you to reflect on the fact that the person you are, or that you aspire to be, is dependent in large measure on the interaction of countless variables (many of which are family related). In addition, many students have said that the exercise also served to remind them of the significance of their influence in the shaping of their children's values.
FORMAT: Please state each question, followed immediately by your answer. Treat each each question and answer as a bullet point. To answer the questions adequately will require at least a short paragraph.
What are your values?
Which of these values are/were also held by your parents?
Which of these values would have been disapproved of by your parents? Why?
What influenced you to hold values not held by your parents?
What sort of life-style do you want for yourself?
Is this the same life-style as that of your parents?
Why, or why not?
What life-style do you want for your children?
What constraints place limits on the way in which you live your life?
What norms place limits on the way in which you live your life?
What expectations do you have for yourself?
What expectations do other people have of you?
Who are these people?
What kinds of conflicts do you encounter due to the expectations of other people?
Would
you say that, on the whole, you give in to other people's demands,
ignore other people's demands, or that your life consists of a mixture
of give-and-take?
If you could change one thing about your life, what would you change?
SUMMARY COMMENTS: What do you feel you have gained, if anything, from this assignment? No need to fib on this. If the introspections required for answering the questions were not helpful, please feel free to say so.
Explanation & Answer
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Outline for personal Growth Exercises
1. Exercise questions and answers
2. References
Surname 1
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Personal Growth exercise questions
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What are your values?
The following are the values that I possess; commitment, diligence, excellence,
independence, fairness, order, perfection, positivity, preparedness, success and teamwork.
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Which of these values are/were also held by your parents?
Excellence, fairness, success, positivity and order.
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Which of these would have been disapproved of by your parents? Why?
Independence. This is because sometimes they have to worry about what I will be doing
since some activities involve going to places that I have not been to before which results
to me wanting to get a place of my own.
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What influenced you to hold values not held by your parents?
Some of those I have learnt overtime, mostly in school while interacting with friends and
teachers.
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What sort of lifestyle do you want for yourself?
I want a lifestyle that can enables me to work flexibly and internationally, have a family
of my own and also being able to travel around the world.
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Is this the same lifestyle as that of your parents?
No.
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Why not?
Surname 2
Largely because their lifestyle involves just working to earn. Their types of job does not
give them much of a choice on moving around.
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What lifestyle do you want for your children?
I would like for them to have an independent, sports loving, healthy and go to good
schools.
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What constraints place l...
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