Personal, Professional, Practice.

We had our first lecture on PPP and I learnt a lot about the human psyche and how other people perceive us. The lecture itself revolved mainly around the introduction to PPP, but also told us about learning to understand the people we work with. We also learned how do describe our attributes in professional terms and understanding the importance of language.
      This made me think about the slide show we were asked to do for the beginning of our course. It may have seemed irrelevant but it did make us learn a little bit about each other, which in turn, made it easier to strike up a conversation with all these new people. This was therefore a successful exercise as it also helped our tutors learn something about us as well, such as: who likes presentations and who doesn't.

We were also taught about the value of being a good team player and how 'being a good team player' is a good perception of others to have of you as it shows you can be approachable and willing to compromise and cooperate.

As well as 'perceptions we learnt about demographics which are 'facts' about people. Such as: Social Class, age, ethnicity. These are all facts, but they don't really tell us anything about the person. Which is why knowing a bit about someone, such as their music taste and what sports they like are a better indicator of who they are.

We all judge people on appearances: on hair style and clothes, its bad but we all do it. We shouldn't stick to these judgements though. We should make judgments based on (I know it sounds cliche) whats in the inside.

Carl Jung 

He described several Archetypes as how everyones mind is made up:

The Self - Your conscious and unconscious mind. Self esteem.
The Shadow - Sex life instincts and your dark side.
The Anima/Animus - Female side if you are a male and visa versa.
The Persona - The mask we wear - what we want people to think of us.

There is some truth to these descriptions, such as, the persona, everyone wants other people to see them in a certain way and we only remove this mask when we are comfortable with the other person/people. The others are more vague and you would need to see them to know that they were there but each of them has a certain part to play.


We were then asked to do this test which asked us to pick a letter from a choice of two (e.g. A or B) and underneath these letters were lists which described our personality in some way. My Personality test cam out as ENFJ. This described me as a 'Charming team player type person' this is not necessarily a fact as the test isn't fool proof but it lets someone else know what i'm like.