Manage your self-perception in a positive way.

The way we perceive and value ourselves says a lot about our vision and self-esteem. On the one hand, it is positive that we are critical of ourselves if we want to know what aspects we should work on for our personal development, however, it is also important that this critical view is made from a positive perspective and improvement, since what we seek with this is not to feel bad about ourselves, but to learn more about our personality and the way we interact with our environment.

During the development of this guide we will be addressing the issue of self-perception and the importance for us to practice it from a positive point of view.

What is self-perception?

Self-perception is nothing more than the way in which we perceive ourselves, that is, the criteria we have about our personality, our aptitudes, strengths and weaknesses. In the same way that we are able to give our opinion about other people and form an image of their most notable characteristics or personality traits, we also do the same with ourselves, based on what we appreciate and believe we are.

Each person's self-perception is not always coherent with reality, the act of perceiving oneself can be biased by many factors, where self-esteem, the social group in which we find ourselves, our state of mind, among other factors, naturally intervene. The same happens when we form an image of another person, this image is formed based on our personal experiences in the exchange with this person, but this does not mean that the image we have is the most adjusted to reality or the one that most people have.

Practicing self-perception in a positive way

When we exhort to practice self-perception in a positive way, we allude to the need to maintain an adequate state of mind in balance with the way we judge ourselves and strive to overcome our weaknesses. Self-perception should be done for cognitive purposes, we seek to understand more about ourselves and learn to know ourselves in order to work on the development of our abilities.

That said, we should not derive with this exercise to feel bad about ourselves or fall into a state of anxiety or frustration as a result of the situation in which we find ourselves at this time. Keep in mind that the fact of being focused on your personal improvement is a very important reason to feel good about yourself, most people do not even get to rethink how they can build a better version of who they are today.

Self-perception is a tool for self-knowledge

As we mentioned earlier, self-perception is a tool for knowledge, not for judging or scolding ourselves for mistakes we have made. Through self-perception we seek to know more about ourselves, to form an integral image of each of our personality traits, as if we were observing another person who is interacting with us.

The problem is that by education and common sense, they will not tell you honestly how they appreciate you and what they think of you, that is why knowing how to perceive ourselves from a vision that is as neutral as possible, will be useful to know more about yourself and understand what impact you cause with your actions in those with whom you interact in your day to day.