How will my learning in PSE help my journey in the IB?
When learning about identity, one of the major components was learning about personality and the ‘ideal’ personality to have to ensure and maximise success. We learnt that the ideal personality type has characteristics such as conscientiousness, curiosity, competitiveness and the ability to be adjusting and embrace change. Learning about this will help my along my journey and success in the IB as it provides ideal characteristics that I would like to strive for such as the ability to be adjusting and competitive. After learning about these, I am now aware of what personality traits ensure success in the long run. Along with learning about the ideal personality, we learnt about how to categorise ourselves when working in groups. I have learnt that I am an ‘actor’ in which I like to dive straight into projects and just get started. From this, we learnt the positives and negatives of each category and what challenges and struggles this particular type can have. For example, for an ‘actor’ one can struggle with taking everyone’s feelings into consideration and can often fail to plan effectively. Through this, I am now aware of what I need to be cautious of when working in groups.
Furthermore, we also learnt about emotional intelligence and how different it is from IQ (intelligence quotient), but how it serves a just as important, or even more, important role than IQ. Through this session we learnt how to identify different emotions in both ourselves and others. This will help me over the course of the next two years because once I am aware of my causes of anxiety or discomfort, I will have better skills to handle the root of the problem and solve it.
Lastly, in PSE this unit we have learnt about the importance and significance of grit in achieving and carrying out our long term goals. With grit, similar to perseverance, and self control we can ensure success in the future. It is about a continuous and sustained effort rather than one concentrated push in effort in whatever you do. This can ensure success in the long term goals as sustained hard work will put you in a better position in the future.
