2. •About Me: The purpose of this
exercise is to encourage you
to start thinking about what
makes you the unique person
that you are
3. •My favorite food
•My favorite place
•An important person in my life
•My favorite possession
•A group I belong to
•My favorite pastime
•A dream for the future
Complete the following:
4. •Something I dislike
•Something I’m good at
•I was really happy when
•Something that my friends like about me
•I’m proud of
•My family was happy when I
•Something that make me unique is
5. •1. You are known for your signature Style:
•Everybody carries their signature style
wherever they go. Signature style would be
the first thing that people would visualize
when they think of you. People can be funny,
boring, dizzy, entertaining, enthusiastic,
curious, sweet, kinky, adventurous,
threatening or serene.
6. •This signature style may be prevalent in the first
meet or may be understood by a person who
meets you, in course of time. But once they
know what your style is, they will always
associate you or see you as a person possessing
these predefined virtues. So it is basically your
signature style that finds you an eternal space in
memories of other people. It makes you special.
It makes you “YOU”.
7. •2. Your past experiences:
•Rightly said, what you are today is out of
what happened to you yesterday. Everybody
has had his/her set of sweet and sour
experiences in past. Your personality
emerges out of what you go through and
learn out of these experiences.
8. •A person who has seen only positives may be
an optimist where has one who has suffered
hardships and trust breaks is more cautious in
approach. Personality is a dynamic concept, and
you tend to imbibe things which you learn out
of your daily experiences. So all the significant
or not so significant things that happen with us
gradually would our character and make us
different from everyone else.
9. •3. Ethics and Morals Instilled in You:
•Perhaps the most important part of you, on
basis of which you stand as an individual today
is your ethical substance. Ethics and morals are
instilled within a kid from childhood, and these
depend upon the background of the family as
well as the location and society where the kid is
brought up. However the extent of internalizing
social norms is purely individualistic.
10. •Also, what is particularly important from an
individual point of view is your unique
interpretation and acceptance/unacceptance
of social order. You will be known for your
morals as they will reflect in every decision
you take throughout your life.
11. •4. Attitude:
•People have some habitual attitude of their
own, which may be positive and negative.
Some may win over obstacles with the right
attitude while some may even have an
attitude problem. Attitude is the way in
which we implement our ethics or principles.
12. •Attitude is shaped from a variety of factors like
beliefs, thoughts, expressions, associations and
external influence. Your attitude is purely yours,
uniquely yours. Attitude makes you and attitude
ruins you. What you need to understand is that
people will perceive you in illumination of your
attitude, both towards them and towards life.
13. •5. Your appearance says a lot about you:
•Next on our list is your appearance. By this I do
not necessarily mean your body and features.
Everyone biologically is different, owing their
look to their genes. But apart from the natural
differences, you also carry your unique style in
your looks. You are known for your appearance
in terms of your hair cut, dressing sense, your
accessories, your makeup and your confidence.
14. •For example, consider how uniquely Vidya Balan
and Frieda Pinto carry their styles. One is known
for her beautiful South Indian sarees while the
other for her extravagant gowns. The best
example if we are talking about looks and
uniqueness would be Lady Gaga. She makes her
unique style statement everytime she is out. So,
your appearance plays an important part in
building your individuality.
15. •6. Your way of communication:
•Communication is the real essence of this social
world. People see you in the light of what and
how you have communicated with them.
Communication involves everything – your
accent, your language, your expressions, your
signs, your texts, your writings – everything.
16. •Some people can communicate at once and
some need time to come out of inertia. But
the way you speak or express your things is
the quintessence of your personality.
Communication makes great orators or
bloggers and imparts them their unique
style. Communication is what makes great
actors too.
17. •7. Your habits or hobbies:
•It is very usual in daily worldly affairs to get
known for your habits or hobbies. Chain
smokers, early risers, computer geeks,
drinkers, adventure maniacs, book worms etc
are some of the phrases which are used to
describe people on the basis of their habits
and hobbies.
18. •Your interests are reflected in the habits you
build or the hobbies you cultivate, and such
unique interests make you unique. You can be a
person known for your fashion statements, or
you can be a person known to have large
number of pets. It all depends on what interests
you, and it varies from person to person. Habits
make you. Hobbies complete you.
19. •8. Your relationships:
•Yes, your relationships speak a lot about you.
Your conduct in any relationship makes you
different. You will be known for how you
behave with others, especially the opposite
sex.
20. •There are people who do not even care for
parents, and on the other hand, there are also
people who are generous towards
acquaintances. Some people are very polite and
friendly towards others, while scornful people
exist too. So your ways in dealing with people
around you are different and unique. That
makes you special, loved or hated.
21. •9. Your aspirations and goals:
•Almost every person on earth has a goal, or a
vision, or atleast a hope to achieve something.
Their dreams may be big or small, for short run
or long run, for themselves or their family, but
their dreams exist. You too might be cultivating
an ambition within the bounds of your eyes.
22. •You may be an aspiring doctor, actor, engineer,
economist, sociologist, historian, or chartered
accountant or any other thing for that matter,
but these aspirations are part of your unique
identity. Every day, we may set big or small
goals for ourselves. You, then, may be able to
complete them or may not be. But these goals
make us what we are. They make you realize
your caliber along with shaping your future.
23. •10. Your beliefs and culture:
•What do you believe about this world? What
do you think of the tiniest and the hugest of
things on earth? How much are you drawn
towards the mysteries of life? Most
importantly, what do you believe about
yourself? Different people may answer these
questions differently.
24. •Perhaps you won’t have the same beliefs as your dad
or as your son. These beliefs are what make you a
different person. Also, your approach towards god,
evil and spirituality imparts individuality to you.
Nextly, what is your culture? Do you follow your
culture like every other person in your society? How
ethnic are you? Or maybe, how conservative or
liberal are you-all of it reflects in your decisions and
makes you different from all others
25. MY SYMBOL
•Think of a symbol that you think represents
you. This could be anything- an animal, object
or another representation that you think
defines and describes you.
•At the back, List some of the qualities or
characteristics that the symbol represents for
you.
