The Concept Of Self-Identity
Who you are and how you know yourself is a query that everyone in some unspecified time in the future will ask themselves. However, this question can only be answered by you, because no one spends more time with you than you do. Plato and Epicurus reveals the reasoning and thoughts of Socrates of the body and soul and discovering how to improve yourself. Also, he was talking about that self-knowledge is important for your happiness or it might prove harmful. Who am I? What is most essential to the self-identity? What does self-knowledge mean to us? Humans have a soul that exists both before and after death; The soul is the self or the mind rather than the body.
Who am I?- this question is asked either by those who feel the loss of themselves or the lack of understanding of their lives. It can also be asked by those who believe in the possibility of personal growth, looking for the top of his growth as a person. Knowing yourself and who you are has been important at all times and for every generation.(why) If an individual doesn't know himself he can’t find his own way to love and happiness. A lot of people are searching for themselves and are trying to understand the purpose of their life. However, the modern world is filled with opportunities, goals, and desires of other people. We live in this abundance and draw our guidance from it. But how can we find our own way in this world? Someone next to you wants something so badly that you start to want it, not realizing that it's not your desire. And even if you spend years of your life on this goal, you will inevitably be disappointed with the result. Each of us has our own innate desires, which are necessarily provided with talents and abilities, that is, properties for realization. The problem is that we are not aware of them. It turns out that I 'want and can', but I do not know how to find what I want. Absolute understanding of the depth of your psychic nature, awareness of the causes of your states, desires, needs are components of the knowledge of yourself.
Moreover, self-identity “ Is the perception or recognition of one's characteristics as a particular individual, especially in relation to social context.” The best thing is that once you start loving yourself, you will be able to love the world around you, including people, without demanding anything in return. And it is so important to accept yourself as you are, with all the shortcomings of physical, mental, emotional, it does not matter, just accept and love, this will help your humbleness. You struggle all your life with your shortcomings, but the more you struggle, the more they become stronger because you pay a lot of attention to it. True love is freedom. It is also necessary to stop criticizing and condemning yourself.
Personal improvement is a lifelong procedure. Identity helps each of us to find our place in the world. It gives us a sense of belonging, a sense of self and gives everyone a sense of direction. Identity is what makes us move in the world in a certain direction. Personality is what gives us reason to be. Different identity / everyone is different.
For example: If we both know a person named “Alex” it cannot be the same person if the one I know is blond-haired, male and 7’0” and the one you know is dark-haired, female and 5’1”.
The need for self-development is an ideal (spiritual) phenomenon, but the manifestations of this idea can be at any level, depending on the chosen direction. Ideal needs are the most important thing that distinguishes us humans from the rest of the living world. Self-development, along with spiritual, cultural and aesthetic needs - an integral part of a normal healthy person. Even people with extremely low levels of pretension and people with extremely low levels of intelligence can be found ideal needs. The importance of self-development lies precisely in the fact that giving it at least some minimal attention, a person is still a person because of the way they act. The main goal of human self-development is happiness. Happiness is the process of getting positive information. For different people, it may be completely different information, but it is always associated with the adoption of its specific person as a success. Increasing self-esteem is always associated with an influx of tremendous energy for creativity. It is thanks to this energy that man is able to reach the most incredible peaks in the field of his activity. Achievements, in turn, generate the very energy flows that make a person happy. The circle closes. But the basis is the same self-development. It is thanks to the work on himself that success becomes possible, which brought energy for further development.
