write a speech draft for my presentation.
Haotian Liang
Prof. Colin
2016/3/21
CMM 100
How to change yourself in college for Self-improvement
Introduction: Many people work toward something in order to improve themselves. This act of aiming toward something in order to achieve it is called setting a goal (Jegathesan, Vitberg and Pusic, 2016). Achieving goals usually improves the person who is setting them. Not abandoning the goal teaches the person discipline, and achieving the goal will improve the person as well (Travers, Morisano and Locke, 2015).
It is identified that, self-improvement has taken on a central role. Part of the thought process of deciding how an individual want to live their life involves observing the habits and lifestyles of people who exhibit the kinds of values and want to achieve in their own life (Rodriguez and Ebbeck, 2015). One thing that is being noticed was that it was rare for an individual to hold in high regard a person who didn’t own and read a lot of books – after noticing this made an effort to start collecting and reading more books (Nesbitt and Grant, 2015).
Adopting the habits of people whose characteristics an individual admire seems a useful heuristic for developing those same characteristics yourself (Allard, T., White, K., Botti, Faro, Levontin, Johar and Exley, 2015).
Conclusion: People often give the advice to others, “be yourself.” What I suspect they mean isn’t just “be yourself” – surely you’re doing that already – but “be your best self.” In conclusion, it is noted that they should Know what you want and endeavour to do what it takes to get it. Don’t let fate or anything else unduly dictate to you who you should or shouldn’t turn out to be. who you want to be. This should get an idea of what best self looks like and work towards it.
References
Allard, T., White, K., Botti, S., Faro, D., Levontin, L., Johar, G.V. and Exley, C., 2015. It Is Not What It Seems: Unexpected Influences On Doing Good For Yourself And Others. Advances in Consumer Research, 43.
Rodriguez, M. and Ebbeck, V., 2015. Implementing Self-compassion Strategies with Female College Gymnasts. Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 6(1), pp.44-53.
Travers, C.J., Morisano, D. and Locke, E.A., 2015. Self‐reflection, growth goals, and academic outcomes: A qualitative study. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 85(2), pp.224-241.
Jegathesan, M., Vitberg, Y.M. and Pusic, M.V., 2016. A survey of mindset theories of intelligence and medical error self-reporting among pediatric housestaff and faculty. BMC medical education, 16(1), p.1.