Factors that determine our behavior

The way in which we project ourselves to society and interact with third parties is determined by a series of sociological and psychological factors that shape our personality traits and intervene in our social relationships. It is important to know that by consciously working to improve each of these factors, we can have a positive impact on the way we are perceived by those with whom we interact, supporting our personal growth from the knowledge of our own person.

During the development of this guide we will be analyzing some of the key factors that affect the way we behave. We will also review the importance of learning to know ourselves, so that we can improve the determining aspects of our personal development.

Importance of learning to know ourselves

Learning to know ourselves is of vital importance for anyone who seeks his or her own personal development. It is impossible for us to progress without first determining which aspects we should focus on if we want to build a better version of who we are. By learning about the way we react to certain circumstances, we are able to choose the ideal moments to make a certain decision, when we should avoid an argument or when our mood is not the right one to deal with a certain issue.

The environment around us

One of the types of factors that have the greatest impact on the way we project ourselves into society are sociological factors. Human beings, as social beings in the end, are determined in their behavior by everything they have perceived in the environment around them. Everything we consider right or wrong responds to our morality, which is made up of a series of rules and principles where we reflect our ethical criteria on each phenomenon with which we interact.

The environment that surrounds us has a great influence on our behavior, but it is possible to influence the way in which we learn from it. We must be able to unlearn harmful behaviors that hinder our development or are counterproductive to the image we want to project to third parties. Being able to discern between what we can contribute and what we cannot is essential when it comes to learning from the environment. While as children, the environment in which we grow up can have a significant impact on our personality, now as adults we have the responsibility to filter the information we receive from this environment so that it is as positive as possible for our growth.

The experiences we receive

We are constantly learning from the experiences we receive in our exchange with society. The successes and failures that we have in each of our actions are part of our learning process when it comes to molding our behavior and correcting aspects that have been decisive for the result obtained. Thanks to our external experiences, we are able to work on aspects of our personality that can be improved and to know what our weaknesses and strengths are.

It is important that we know how to take advantage of each of our experiences received for the benefit of our learning. Negative experiences are usually difficult to accept at the beginning. We attribute the failure of a decision to an experience that we should ignore so that it does not cause us pain, instead of focusing on trying to understand what caused this failure, identify the negative elements that contributed to it and strive to correct them in order to avoid future adversity.

We can learn as much from negative experiences as from positive ones, the important thing is that we are correctly focused on the learning process.v