Consider Your Gender Role Across the world, children receive different messages about what it means to be a man or a woman. Every culture has its own definition of gender roles and identity. These have as much to do with the culture as they do to biological differences. These days, gender role identity is going through rapid change and is being challenged on many fronts. In the 1990s I created a table that summarized general gender differences in US culture. …
This week’s lesson from my book: Self-Aware: A Guide for Success in Work and Life is on “discovering your strengths.” Here are the steps I asked my students to consider: According to the Gallup survey discover your top-five signature strengths? (you will need to buy one of the Gallup books to get the code to be able to take this survey) As with all similar surveys, the Gallup is based on self-report. Yet, research shows we do not know ourselves as …
Self-Aware: A Guide for Success in Work and Life “I hadn’t really stopped to think about how my own interests and work-style would fit into my future career. I was caught up in attending recruitment sessions from Fortune 500 companies or whatever companies I thought carried prestige, with little regard for the type of work I was actually interested in… “Our first topic in Dr. Rob’s class was about self-awareness… [I discovered that] I preferred creative work, often in more …
Here is chapter three in my new book: Self-Aware: A Guide for Success in Work and Life. This chapter is about the importance of “Discovering Your Passion.” The book, thanks to the great editing by my collaborator, Dunrie Greiling, should be ready as an e-book next week. Stay tuned for details. [edit 9/19/2016 – available in ebook format and softcover from Amazon.com] Cover photo, “Take Me Home,” taken by Michael H. Samuelson, used with permission. https://samuelsongallery.com CHAPTER THREE Self-Discovery Step Two: Define …
Recognize Your Blind Spots Research shows that often it’s not what we see but what we fail to see that causes us to self-destruct. So it’s really important to become aware of our blind spots. Are you a perfectionist who can never admit your failings? Do you teeter constantly on the brink of burnout because you overdo everything? Are you so power-hungry that you’d fire your mom to win points with the boss? Do you micromanage people (even your family) …
Well-being begins with self-awareness. A key example of this insight comes from the research on emotional intelligence. Beginning with Professor David McClelland, whom I had the honor to learn from at Harvard University, and through the work of researchers Daniel Goldman and Rick Boyatzis, research consistently demonstrates that self-awareness is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence. In order to understand other people, we must first understand ourselves. In order to manage any relationship, we must possess self-awareness and other awareness. In order to manage …