Final Goal Paper
I am writing the final goal paper to reflect on a general interpersonal communication academicals season we contributed in the semester. The purpose of this reflection is to summarize and exhibit the critical and fundamental key concepts of the textbook I have been pursued throughout in the semester. The topics we mostly covered in the class and writing our thought through the discussion posts such as interpersonal communication, creating and presenting the self, perception, emotions, language, managing interpersonal communication, and managing interpersonal conflicts.
The long term of my goal with this class is to improve my personal communication skills very well with the community I live with and to retain formal communication
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There are a variety of ways to think about the self. Two of the most widely used terms are self-concept and self-esteem. Self-concept is the cognitive or thinking aspect of self (related to one's self-image) and generally refers to the entirety of a multifaceted, organized, and forceful system of learned beliefs, attitudes and opinions that each person clamps to be true about his or her personal presence. Self-esteem is the emotional or sensitive aspect of self and normally refers to how we feel about or how we value ourselves. Self-concept can also refer to the overall idea we have of ourselves and self-esteem can refer to precise events about apparatuses of self-concept. Self-concept might have different components: physical, academic, social, and transpersonal. The physical aspect of self-concept relates to that which is concrete: what we look like, our sex, height, weight and others staffs related with our personality. It may the close we wear, the car type we drive; kind of house we live in; and so forth. Our academic self-concept relates to how well we do in school or how well we …show more content…
I believe I have an empathy that rewarded naturally as a human being, and learn from family then from the community I live with, but empathy can be improved in learning process. In the discussion, we wrote about the greatness of empathy represented by the animation short movie. In the animation, the big man character was very emotional how he was paying attention and showing his empathy for a little man who stressed out living in this world. As I said, empathy may develop from the society we live together, but I highly encourage myself for the empathy since we cover this topic in our class through discussion post. I thought about my feeling in a difficult situation? If no one showing me supportiveness, sharing my feeling, and my emotions, guess what will going to be happen next, hard right? I could sick or something different. Therefore, I get over it to learn more and strengthen my own empathy. To develop my empathy, I stop criticizing and judging someone before asking thoughtful questions, and sharing their feelings in the same way I do. Since now on, I prepared myself to listen very well without interrupting, listening with interest even though it is difficult to listen with full of attention. Smiling is a great example to show your care for others. I might show my empathy using facial expression in a responsible way. “Empathy requires a suspension of