ACTIVITY # 2

1. Characterize yourself by describing the things that you possess and value. Specifically, identify
three or four things from your home (physical things or places) that accurately represent who
you are.

Answers

This is an entirely personal question that each student has to answer on his or her own, drawing upon
those items in his or her possession. No one can do that for you. In general terms, however, what you
own often tells others what kind of person you are. One’s possessions are often a reflection of one’s
values and desires and interests. A home or apartment well-adorned with books usually indicates an
intellectually curious individual who obviously likes to read or, at least, wants to be surrounded with visible
symbols of knowledge. The photographs hanging on walls or placed upon mantles or shelves similarly
tells something about who we are. A display of photographs of the homeowner with relatives and/or
friends clearly indicates that the person values human relationships. Ostentatious displays of wealth can
indicate affluence, or that someone hopes to put forth an image of affluence. What’s in the garage can
also hint at an individual’s values. A late-model automobile the cost of which appears out of proportion
to the owner’s known socioeconomic status may indicate that the owner places a higher priority on a
luxurious ride or on giving the appearance of success than on other priorities, like the home itself or the
education and care of whatever children may or may not reside there. An old, clearly-past-its-prime car
can indicate financial scarcity or that the owner simply places little to no value on a basic mode of
transportation. A sparsely-furnished and minimally-adorned condominium in an expensive complex,
similarly, may indicate either that the occupant is financially-comfortable but eschews material
possessions, or that the occupant placed a higher priority on neighborhood and building than on personal
comfort in terms of furniture and other personal items, or that the owner is professionally successful, but
lacks the time to focus on mundane matters like furnishings and wall-hangings. Conversely, a wall filled
with nicely-framed diplomas and signed photographs of prominent individuals can indicate a sense of
pride or a deep-seated insecurity regarding one’s status and reputation.
How people spend their money is an indication of their priorities and values. A student with a large
collection of compact discs, or with a fully-loaded MP3 player, clearly enjoys music, and values access to
music above other priorities – after all, a 500-song collection can easily represent over $500 in
commitment. A large collection of DVDs can indicate a strong interest in film, and any pattern detected
among those DVDs, for example, particularly violent and/or horror films, or musicals, can tell us a little
something about the owner’s taste in film and, possibly, any inclinations the owner may have towards
certain subjects. In the end, however, the individual student is expected to step back and take a close
look around him or her, carefully noting any patterns in purchases or other indications of interests and
values. The emergence of the science of garbology occurred for a reason: there is much that we can tell
about someone from examining his or her garbage. The same goes for possessions that haven’t yet
reached the stage of qualifying for disposal.

2. What makes you stand out from the rest? What makes your “self”?

Ans:

When you truly believe you can create what you envision, when you're not afraid of the obstacles, that
confidence will automatically make you stand out from the rest. 5. Practice listening. Learn to listen truly
listen to work toward a deep understanding and hear what's being said beyond the words.

What makes you Standing Out from the rest?

Ans:

Standing out means that you are a cut above the rest. You outshine others in a way that makes you
somewhat advantageous. Many things are considered that makes you stand out from a crowd. But to an
extent that you make others inferior of a specific attribute you possess as an individual. How would you
know that you are even standing out? If in a positive way then because you are doing better things than
what the others are doing, if in a negative way you are doing worse than most the bad things other people
do.

So how do you stand out?

Outshine others

Improve in many ways

First impression lasts

Flattery never gets old

Be spontaneous (in a good way)

Explanation:

Outshine Others- giving your best to outrun others by your own effort and sweat.

Improve in many ways- let yourself learn and learn from your victories to your failures.

First Impression lasts not all can do a great first impression, but if you do so people will remember your
name.

Flattery never gets old- when you see a chance where you can complement others or you see that they
need one then do so. Good behaviors makes people remember you also.

Most of the things I listed were that of standing out in a good way that others will definitely take a look in
where you are standing. But of course, nothing is guaranteed for everybody. There are billions of different
people that might not like a stand out so much, or some may truly appreciate your efforts, or in some
other cases get bullied. Because there is such thing as “smart shaming”, where the inferior person talks
bad about what the person achieved for the reason he/she didn’t achieved. Many people might down you
from standing out or encourage you to go further and reach what you want to do. But in all this learn to
take a look at yourself from other people’s eyes, and you might just know what to do.

3. How has your self-transformed itself?

Every human being passes into transformation through different stages of life- from being an
infant to becoming an adult. How I see things summed up in the following:

Every stage will make a person different from what he's used to be.
Everyone will experience trying different things, strive to achieve something, get hurt from a
mistake and even learn how to love.
Reason for transformation:

My Family
Support System
My Family
My family is one of the contributors on how I was transformed into this. I came from a family of
educators, so my parents prioritized our education. They taught us the values before it was being
taught in school.

The school, being the second home of the students, also had an impact in my transformation.
Growing up in an all-girls school made me appreciate my femininity.

Support System
The support and advises of the people around me really helped a lot. You cannot transform
yourself to someone you are now without the support of these people: your family, your
educators, your relatives and your friends.

Adulthood
Becoming an adult is really tough or threatening. Things change differently (and sometimes
abruptly) and you need to make tough or hard decisions in life. You will learn on your own,
especially when you decide to have a family of your own. The struggle of being a first-time mother
is an eye-opener for me. But somehow, it made me a better person, because now, I could handle
the things I couldn't handle before. The things that I thought it was impossible to do. But
transformation still occurs.
4. How is your “self” connected to your body?

All mental events take place in the brain and the brain is very much a part of the body. However,
cognitively, the mental operation known as the self has very little sense of the body it operates
in, unless of course there is some sensation that is strong enough to attract the attention, such as
pain or discomfort. And then, the relationship is usually one with a bit of resentment at the body
for causing the attention to be attracted out of the cozy thought stream and into the body part
where the pain is.

There is another way for the attention to be attracted to the body other than pain or sensual
pleasures. It entails the deliberate act of focusing the attention on the sensation of the entire
mass of vibrating energy constituting the physical body. It’s an extraordinary experience, and it is
very rarely sought after. But the possibility for that experience is always there and thus there is
an ongoing if somewhat tenuous relationship between the attention and the body.

Regarding the mental operation broadly referred to as the self, it is a multiplicity. There are two
fundamental “selves” or navigators. There is the navigator of the physical terrain and the
navigator of the social terrain. The social navigator is composed of a surprising number of mini-
selves, each one adapted to every social situation and dependent on who is being related to. We
have a self for our bosses, our colleagues, our underlings, our spouses, children, other peoples’
children, friends, acquaintances, strangers, neighbors, pets, the list is quite long and we all have
a self for each one of those situations. These selves do not know each other and do not need to
know each other; in fact they would interfere with each other so they are kept apart, unless one
or another self-acts badly and makes a mess that other selves then have to clean up. Normally,
they are best off in ignorance of each other. You can regard your many selves like the horses on
a merry-go-round.

There is only one attention, and each self takes turns at the helm, commanding the attention for
its particular needs. None of those social navigator selves have a very good relation with the body.
For that to develop, it is necessary to create a self for that very purpose, and it is already there
but not yet engaged in that relationship on a conscious level. It’s your attention.
 5. How is your self-related to other selves?

Ans:

No matter how unique we are with each other, we are still related to each other. Our selves
somehow affect and relate with others depending on our core values and how we lived it.
Consequently, we attract what we are.

Furthermore, we tend to influence others through the way how we live and how we handle life.
In relating ourselves with other selves, we tend to make a connection and that connection would
be victorious if both sides are open.

6. What will happen to your “self” after you die?

Medically speaking, death happens in two stages. The first, clinical death, lasts for four to six
minutes from the moment a person stops breathing and the heart stops pumping blood.

During this stage, organs remain alive and there may be enough oxygen in the brain that no permanent
damage occurs.

The second stage of dying, biological death, is the process by which the body’s organs shut down and cells
begin to degenerate.

There’s no fighting it; each of us will die at some point. What happens next is a fascinating - if frightening
- natural process.

Without preservation techniques like embalming or mummification, your body slowly begins to decay the
second your heart stops beating.

Doctors are often able to halt or end this process by cooling the body below its normal temperature,
allowing them to revive patients before brain damage sets in.

Once biological death has happened muscles begin to relax, including the sphincter – which can cause the
bowels to empty.
After 12 hours, skin loses its colour and blood pools at the lowest point of the body, causing red and purple
bruising.

Before this, rigor mortis sets in, making the body stiff and rigid. This is caused by calcium leaking into the
muscle cells, which binds to protein and causes them to contract.