To judge who you are as an individual (in the total sense), do you need...?

Question

the perspectives of others opinion and thoughts or is your solo perspective enough to reach a final conclusion on what makes you you?

Answer 1

As we live in a society we need 2 consdier others opinion as well.

But we shud know who we are and shudnt fully yield 2 ther opinions.

Answer 2

I Don't judge, full stop.

I am who and what I am today

through determination and the want to live.

I Have visited h**l many times in my Life,

but have somehow managed to claw my way back.

I try to be the best I can and in doing so I know I am

true to myself as well as others.

Answer 3

Other people's opinions. For example....When i visit a somebody's house i often go quiet and shy....at least that is what i feel. This would mean i would make the summary -i am sometimes quiet and shy.

However, the people i visited took my shyness to be arrogance, rudeness and avoidance to them....not what i was feeling but it was how i came across...

Therefore this changes the summary to  -I am sometimes shy and quiet but this can be misinterpreted and i can appear arrogant and rude.

The first statement only had a section of who i am, my opinion. In order to get a full insight into oneself we need to look at what others think as we need to assess how we appear in this world from an outsiders perspective. Though this part is not as important as what we know, it can often help us 'know' ourselves better.

Answer 4

solo perspective. all the way. i don't need other people's opinions or thoughts to let me know who i am.

Answer 5

Other people help by pointing out things I hide from myself but the last call as to if they are right or wrong lays with me. Good question.

Answer 6

Others' opinions,  others' examples put the perspective right otherwise in our mind we may think ourselves great...in no need for any change!

Solo perspective can go horribly wrong if one is a narcissist or self-obsessed.  

Sometimes we fail to see our own strengths and failings unless others point it out...that's why healthy praise,  words of encouragement are helpful in shaping ones personality,  just as reproval is important for discipline.  

I guess no one knows oneself truly...all the experiences one gathers in life show a new facet of our personality...till the end.  Its an on-going process.

Answer 7

We don't know enough about humans to judge ourselves in the total sense.

Answer 8

Hi, i think that this is a very interesting question!!

What i would say is that one's perspective(s) are a mirror of their being. This is to say that the influences they've absorbed have sprouted the reflection of their self-ego. It's like the notion behind our thoughts dictating our reality, of how our perception becomes what we translate as reality, we sometimes distort it/misread, whilst at other times we see what we want, or what we were fed; deep-rooted in our subconscious.The beliefs that are given growth within our mind- sets,

are foundations that are built upon, we build from our experiences, very encounter, anything we observe we 'read' differently based on our interior methods of processing what we perceive, influenced by our set beliefs (that's is why affirmations are used to transform these beliefs that we've built from the past) our intake of this knowledge from experiences are vastly complex and contribute to Individuation.

The idea of solo- perspective is quite ironic, because nothing can be solo entirely, it must have been unconsciously picked up by us, through the environments around us,  

There are two types of unconscious, the personal unconscious and the  collective. The personal unconscious is pretty much self defining and doesn't need to be perceived as mysterious or supernatural (though it is occult in the truest sense of the word - 'hidden'). The personal unconscious contains all the stuff that simply isn't conscious. It contains stuff that can be made conscious by simple act of will, stuff that requires some digging, as well as stuff that may never be recalled to consciousness ever again. It is made up of the things you've experienced every day of your life. I'm not sure if it is strictly true that nothing is ever really and truly lost, totally forgotten, but it seems that the psyche is very reluctant to let much go in the event that it might come in handy someday. The psyche is a pack rat, the unconscious full of its stuff.

The personal unconscious is also a dumping ground for things we aren't comfortable with and which we'd really rather not have in consciousness very often. Repressed memories are a hot issue at the moment, but even without total all out suppression of memory, we are adept at not thinking about things we'd rather not think about.

Another interesting aspect of the personal unconscious is that recall can be influenced by context. For example, being slow to recognize a person on the street who you know very well from school or work or wherever. There is no sharp dividing line between conscious and unconscious mind.

The collective unconscious likewise is pretty much self defining. While you participate in it, it isn't your exclusive property, we all share in it. It belongs to the species. When Carl Jung had his official doctor hat on and was defining things ex cathedra , the collective unconscious was something passed on genetically. It was like an edition of a book of which we each had our own copy.

I recommend that you look at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actual...

Answer 9

While it is always helpful to have the insight both of people you love and respect, and others who are being subjective but honest, it is still your own decision about your self-esteem that you must live with.

To let your self-esteem, which IS your judgement of yourself in psychological terms, be determined or shaped by others, is what causes breakdowns, suicides, life-changing decisions made on a moment's notice, etc.

Answer 10

We are social animals, as such my personal opinion of myself will already include the opinions of others.

Answer 11

It is an inescapable human weakness that we can never judge ourselves absolutely objectively. Ironically, it is equally another inescapable weakness that we can not judge another person also absolutely objectively. Every single judgment involves an element of bias or subjectivity. Therefore, it is my opinion that neither on our own, nor on the basis of others' view alone, can we ever arrive at an absolutely correct conclusion of who we are as an individual. Under the circumstances, therefore, we have no option but to take into account our own assessment as well as others' opinion so that we can arrive at a reasonably accurate judgment about ourselves as an individual.... considering both sides of the coin will give us the benefit of canceling out the inevitable aberrations on either side.