Introduction
A first person perspective refers to a personal view over a subject, whether in singular or collective consideration. Self knowledge on the other hand is the information that an individual holds over himself or herself. This paper seeks to discuss the acquisition of self knowledge.
The paper will defend the first person acquisition of self knowledge acquisition as opposed to obtaining the knowledge from a third party.
First person perspective as a way of acquisition of self knowledge
Development of human beings is characterized with a level of knowledge that each individual acquire in life. Acquisition of knowledge is a continuous process that starts from childhood and develops with an individual throughout his or her life.
Some of the information that is obtained concerns individual personalities with respect to self understanding. A little child, old enough to talk and identify things, will for example be able to understand and distinguish his or her sex. As children grow, they develop the capacity to identify body parts and other features about their bodies.
Most of the lessons that individual learn about themselves at tender ages are majorly taught by third parties such parents, relatives or even peers who might have learnt such from other people. This source of self knowledge however changes as people grow into mature adults when self awareness is developed and an individual develops perception about himself or herself.
Though the development of self knowledge may be thought of as an automatic phenomenon, it is an independent feature of human beings and varies from person to person. Development of self knowledge from a personal perspective is driven by environmental factors that induce self meditation from which a deeper understanding of self is derived.
One of the drivers into self knowledge is interaction with other members of the society that exposes the features of individuals. Discursive forums with other people can for example help an individual to identify how good he or she is. Discussions about personalities can also help an individual to reflect on similarities between the discussed feature and those that the individual experiences in himself or herself.G
oals and objectives of an individual is also a tool to self awareness. This is particularly applicable in the identification of an individual’s capacity. Setting targets for one’s self and using them for evaluation is a good example of a way to self knowledge.
Even though self knowledge refers to information about what an individual poses within, such knowledge is driven by external factors which are in most cases associated with an individual’s life experiences.
Scarcity of needs which often bring people into consideration of why they cannot poses one thing and how they can acquire another also forms a basis of self awareness through self evaluation. General interaction with other people that exposes their features also triggers individuals into self awareness with respect to consideration of what other individual poses.
Though every individual is subject to the external factors that drive first person perspective of self knowledge, individual personalities dictate the level of self awareness. Both physical and psychological factors play a role.
Conclusion
Personal perspective of self awareness is self driven by what an individual conceive about self. It therefore instills a better level of self confidence as compared to a third person’s perspective.