My personality type according to the personality test is ENTJ-T (Commander). I kinda agree with the result because I have some experience in taking charge during groupworks and organizing tasks to reach clear goals. I tend to be a bit overwhelmed because all accountability will indeed go to me because I have to manage my team but still I have to do my task as a leader. I sometimes also realize that I can be too direct or impatient at times, so learning to be more empathetic and flexible is something I should continue to work on.

2. How can your Personality Type help you become a person with and for others?

As an ENTJ-T, my personality helps me become a person with and for others by using my leadership skills to guide and support those with me. This encourages me to make things better not just for myself, but for the whole group, and I’m sometimes good at organizing plans that benefit everyone. My leadership skills can encourage others to act, while my focus on long-term goals helps create lasting positive change.

Stress level is at 6.

I often feel stressed due to the heavy workload from academics, especially when multiple deadlines pile up at the same time. Balancing academics with other or personal responsibilities at home also brings in more pressure and makes it hard to manage my time. Additionally, I sometimes fear expectancies of others because they think that I can do really great at stuffs when I'm not, this makes me anxious as I don't want to fail their expectations. Lack of enough rest and time for myself also contributes to my stress levels.

2. What are the effects when you are stressed out? List your typical reactions, either in the form of sentences or phrases.

Physical: Headaches, Muscle tension, Lack of energy

Mental/Emotional: Trouble sleeping, Overwhelmed feelings, Can’t concentrate Mood swings

Behavioral: Procrastination and Ignoring people

3. Identify 3 coping strategies that are effective for you. If one of these strategies is unhealthy, what healthier strategy can you adopt instead? You can simply write down your strategies or you can be more creative by writing quotes or drawing images and symbols.

1. Listening to music - Listening to music helps me to calm down and also improves my mood.

2. Resting or Naps - Taking rest is very important to me, it helps me to gain energy and also makes me think more clearly.

3. Going out with friends - I sometimes go out with my friends to have fun, being with them makes me happy and comfortable.

1. When I encounter conflict, I try to respond by gaining context first by asking others about what is happening so that I can think of something that I can do.

2. When I feel anxious or nervous, it helps me better if I just stop thinking about the negative thoughts and focus on positive thoughts, especially my main goal.

3. I find it challenging to manage my emotions when there are so many thoughts bothering me and it's usually personal problems or the pressure of the situation.

4. When someone shares their feelings with me, I feel motivated to fully hear them out and to share what I can say about their feelings.

5. One way I practice empathy is by listening to other people's thoughts and learning how to understand their situation or feelings.

6. A time when I recognized someone else's emotions was when we had an open forum in our class and one of my classmates who is the most silent shared how happy she was when we became groupmates.

7. Emotional intelligence helps me understand my emotions when I feel complicated, most of the time my emotions get mixed up from various or even just one situation.

8. I can improve my emotional regulation by learning and restricting myself from using an emotion that I should most likely be controlling like anger.

9. I think emotional intelligence is important because it helps us to efficiently improve our way of using emotional feelings as well as to control our emotions.

10. I believe that developing emotional intelligence can lead to better social relationships and emotional health.

Reflection Question: Think of a time when you went through something difficult. How did your emotions affect the situation, and how did you manage them?

A time where I was in a problematic situation was during my time in junior high school somewhere grade 10. It was my final year in junior high and my goal that time was to actually get consecutive honors from all semester because I usually get 3 or 2 honors back then. The problem here is that the lessons and task were challenging especially most of the task were individual so more work for myself. As my academic problems were stacking up so does my personal problems, because of both of these I couldn't help my own feelings sometimes I would feel stressed, mad, anxious, I would even ignore or isolate myself from others because I don't want to suddenly express my feelings towards them. One way I was able to manage my emotions is to learn how to let them out if get angry I go to the gym and lift, if I'm sad I just cry in bed, and most importantly is to share my thoughts on how I feel with different subjects to my classmates or friends as they are always open to hear me out. Using these ways to manage my emotion really helped me as I was able to get consecutive honors throughout the entire school year.

Creating this mind map made me realize how I studied using the different sides of my brain. I appreciated the way that I studied because they helped me in my academic journey. I can take care of myself by continue to learn and improve on skills that I need more work on.

2. In what ways can you apply what you discovered about your thinking style to pursue excellence (magis) in your daily study habits and responsibilities as an Atenean?

There are many ways to can apply what I have discovered about my thinking style to pursue excellence, like choosing study methods that matches how I learn. This allows me to focus my learning strategies that strengthen my weakness while maximizing my strengths. In doing so, I can strive for excellence by being more intentional and disciplined while studying and doing responsibilities.