First, know yourself.
"Know yourself", the only inscription engraved in the temple of Delphini in ancient Greece, is like a torch that has never been extinguished for thousands of years, expressing the inherent requirements of human beings and the supreme thinking proposition. Nietzsche once said, "A wise man will never lose anything as long as he can know himself." In fact, everyone has great potential, everyone has his own unique personality and advantages, everyone can choose his own goals and strive for his own success through unremitting efforts.
Self-knowledge is the foundation and basis for each of us to be confident. Even if you are in a bad situation, as long as your great potential, unique personality and advantages still exist, you can firmly believe that I can do it and I can succeed.
Whether a person can truly know and affirm himself, how to shape his self-image, how to grasp his self-development and how to choose positive or negative self-consciousness in his life experience and social situation will greatly affect or determine his future and destiny. In other words, you may be small and mediocre, or you may be beautiful, which depends to a great extent on your self-awareness and whether you can have real confidence. Remember, know yourself as a gold mine. With self-confidence, determination and self-love, you can show your due elegance in life. Therefore, the realization and completion of the process of knowing oneself is also a process of accepting oneself, cultivating self-confidence, exploring potential and finally realizing oneself.
First, the characteristics and influencing factors of high school students' self-awareness. High school is a time when one must know the main characteristics of one's personality and begin to consider one's life path. Therefore, all problems are centered on "self" and are aimed at solving the problem of "self". This subjective and objective demand makes high school students' self-awareness highly developed. The development of high school students' self-awareness plays a decisive role in forming stable personality characteristics and values. It can be said that high school students' attitudes and views on themselves affect all aspects of their actual development. The characteristics of high school students' self-awareness are reflected in many aspects, which is attributed to the following six points by educator and psychologist Zhu Beili:
1. the development of independent intention in self-awareness, such as the independent needs of high school students. Since adolescence, the relationship between children and their parents has changed, and children have reduced their dependence on their parents, but increased their rebellious feelings. This situation generally reaches its peak in junior high school and senior high school. After entering senior high school, although most senior high school students still want their parents to treat them as independent individuals and oppose excessive interference from their parents, compared with junior high school, they have reduced direct conflicts with their parents. They prefer to discuss and decide some issues from the same standpoint as their parents, hoping to live in harmony with their parents.
2. Differentiation of self-consciousness components. In psychology, senior high school students divide themselves into "ideal self" and "realistic self". It is precisely because of this differentiation that their subjectivity in thinking or behavior is formed, and the requirements and experience of judging and controlling their words and deeds according to their own ideas are produced. At the same time, self-contradiction (the contradiction between real self and ideal self) has also appeared.
3. High school students who are strongly concerned about their own personality growth are very concerned about the pros and cons of their own personality characteristics. When evaluating others, they also put the perfection of their personality in the first place.
4. Senior high school students with mature self-evaluation can independently evaluate their internal qualities, the consistency of motivation and effect of evaluation behavior, etc. Their self-evaluation has reached the dialectical unity of subjectivity and objectivity to a certain extent.
5. High school students with strong self-esteem will have a strong sense of satisfaction when their words and deeds are affirmed and appreciated; On the contrary, it is easy to have a strong sense of frustration.
6. High school students with highly developed moral consciousness have developed and matured in self-observation, self-evaluation, self-experience, self-monitoring and self-control. There are four main factors that affect senior high school students' self-awareness: First, physiological factors, mainly physical appearance characteristics, can directly affect senior high school students' self-evaluation. Secondly, cognitive level, cognitive level and the development speed of thinking also affect the development level of self-awareness. The third is the influence of parents' concept tendency on high school students' self-awareness, which is in the same direction; The fourth is the accumulation of success or failure experience, which is also a factor affecting self-cognition. High school is the last stage that an individual spends before he matures. At this stage, the level of self-awareness development will directly affect the completion of development tasks in the next few life stages.
Second, tap the potential
From the above analysis, we can see that the key to self-development and self-improvement in senior high school lies in how to cultivate good self-awareness. It is also the key to discovering self-potential. Correct self-awareness refers to people's correct understanding of themselves and their positive feelings and attitudes based on the development of the surrounding environment. Correct self-awareness can promote the cultivation of teenagers' innovative consciousness. Teenagers' self-confidence is closely related to their understanding and evaluation of themselves, and correct self-cognition can enhance their self-confidence. If a person forms a correct self-cognition, then he must be full of confidence; If a person has a negative view of himself, he will certainly feel inferior. Only with correct self-cognition can we create with confidence and give full play to our great creative potential.
Of course, to tap the potential, it is not enough to form a correct self-awareness, but also to do:
1. A sound personality refers to a person's overall mental outlook. Personality integrity refers to the balanced development of personality elements such as temperament, ability, personality, ideal, belief and outlook on life. Students with sound personality should think, do and speak in harmony, and have a positive outlook on life, so as to meet their own needs as the center. Unity of wishes, goals and behaviors. Einstein said: "A person's intellectual achievement depends to a great extent on his personality, and this greatness is often beyond people's usual understanding." A white-haired Nobel Prize winner once said that he learned what he thought was the most important thing in kindergarten, that is, "give half of his own things to friends … apologize for what he did wrong … observe nature carefully …" This actually means that what has a profound impact on his scientific path is the comprehensive life education he received since childhood. Positive and enterprising, indomitable attitude towards life, courage to practice, studious, modest and honest personality, lofty ideals and down-to-earth professionalism are all helpful to develop and create potential.
2. Cultivating innovative interest is the love and inclination of people's spirit to a specific object or thing, and it is a kind of fun generated by people's exploration and understanding of an object. This kind of fun can make people get great satisfaction, thus promoting people's high concentration and reaching the degree of selflessness. Many scientists are willing to study hard since childhood, give up the games and fun they liked when they were young, and seize all the time to study. It is precisely because he has a strong interest in science that he feels endless fun and pleasure from scientific research itself, which others can't understand. Darwin said: "The main pleasure and only job in my life is scientific work. My enthusiasm for scientific work makes me forget or drive away my discomfort." Madame Curie said: "Scientific research itself contains beauty, and its own pleasure is reward, so I found happiness in my work." Pavlov said: "Thanks to science, it not only makes life full of happiness and joy, but also gives life a pillar and a sense of respect." "If a person is not interested in scientific creation, he must regard learning as a dangerous road, and he cannot have the spirit and motivation to overcome all difficulties.
3. Actively practice what Marx once said: "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. Russians have correct consciousness and good interests, but they must be constantly honed and improved in practice before they can finally turn potential possibilities into reality. The exploration of potential is actually a cyclic process of exploration, cultivation and development. This process is realized in daily life, work and study.