Know
thyself
Your
personality is the product of the contact of your inborn ‘needs’ and drives’
with the immediate sociophysical environment, especially during the first five
yours of your life. During this period, you were tossed by different ‘needs’
and ‘drives’. On the one hand you craved for love of your parents, especially
of your mother. This generated in you a feeling of dependence ad ultimately an
inferiority complex. You felt secure, no doubt, against the turmoil’s of everyday
life; but deep within yourself you were unhappy. This was so, because you also
craved for independence from your parents at the same time. At times, you
revolted against them and went out in the open, in order to satisfy your
craving for adventure. Notwithstanding your dependence upon parents, you began
experimenting with adventurous pursuits independently. Thus originated within
yourself during the first five years life an emotional conflict a conflict
between your loves for dependence and craving for independence the solution of
which formed the foundation-stone of your present personality.
Like all human beings you harbor
within your personality a desire to excel others in your immediate social
environment. You wish to establish yourself properly in life. However, you may
realize your ambition, if you are able to discover the psychological ‘assets’
and ‘liabilities’ of your personality. In order to be able to do so, ask
yourself the following questions and answer yes or no as the case may be if you
find that your yes answers have exceeded your ‘No’ answers, your personality
would require necessary psychological guidance. Even a single ‘Yes’ answer
would indicate some weakness in your personality requiring psychological
guidance for the proper development of your personality.
Test
your personality
1.
Do you enjoy conversation, where a crowd of
people meet? (Answer Yes or No)
2.
Do you feel shy to mix with the opposite sex?
(Answer Yes or No)
3.
Are you incapable of organizing picnics or
social gatherings? (Answer Yes or No)
4.
Do you prefer private occupations to team-work? (Answer
Yes or No)
5.
Do you dislike your present job and feel
fatigued, or over-worked? (Answer Yes or No)
6.
Are you afraid of shouldering responsibilities? (Answer
Yes or No)
7.
Do you feel inferior to others in your immediate
social environment? (Answer Yes or No)
8.
Are you unable to adapt yourself to new
situations? (Answer Yes or No)
9.
Do you frequently fail to understand the
relations between things easily? (Answer Yes or No)
10.
Are you unable to take quick decisions in emergencies?
(Answer Yes or No)
11.
Do you suffer from lack of concentration self-confidence
and self-control? (Answer Yes or No)
12.
Do you forget things too frequently because of
bad memory? (Answer Yes or No)
13.
Do you apprehend failure in life and contemplate
committing suicide at times? (Answer Yes or No)
14.
Do you frequently fail to observe punctuality
and thereby remain regular in your irregularities? (Answer Yes or No)
15.
Are you occasionally haunted by unreasonable
worries, anxieties or fears? (Answer Yes or No)
16.
Are you easily led away by suggestions from
others? (Answer Yes or No)
17.
While walking alone in the street, do you
suspect that others are talking about you? (Answer Yes or No)
18.
Are you occasionally haunted by nightmares and
terrifying dreams? (Answer Yes or No)
19.
Do you frequently indulge in day-dreaming, ‘building
castles in the air’, instead of attempting to realize your ambitions in
practical life? (Answer Yes or No)
20.
Are you a victim to psycho-somatic illnesses,
such as, nervous palpitations, headache, insomnia, stomach troubles, stammering
or stuttering, Asthma, Eczema etc?
If
with the fore-going tests, you discover that the ‘liabilities’ of your
personality have exceeded its ‘assets’ you need not be alarmed at all.
Psychology will help you to develop yourself into a strong and dynamic
personality. If, on the other hand, you find that the ‘assets’ of your
Personality have exceeded its ‘liabilities’, you are already on the royal road
to success in life.
Notwithstanding the drawbacks of your personality Psychology will help your discover the hidden potentialities of your Real Self. Behind each conscious 'Yes' answer of yours, there is probably an Unconscious categorical 'No'. This is apparent from your feeling of remorse, when you become conscious of the weaknesses of you Personality. This feeling indicates a conflict between 'what you are' and 'what you wish to be'. The very fact that you are not satisfied with 'what you are', indicates the possibility of your realizing 'what you wish to be'. At times, you feel surging within your deeper 'self', a reservoir of untapped potentialities. You have only to unleash this dormant energy of your 'Unconscious Self', through proper psychological techniques and thereby develop yourself into a strong and dynamic Personality.
