Talk:Human self-reflection
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[edit] Reflection and professionalism
I was redirected here from Reflection in the sense of thinking about what you are doing, yet this article is only about the human species thinking about itself.
The word reflection is confusing to people because it has several other meanings, but in this sense means that you think about what you have done and use that to improve your performance in the future. You also think about how best to behave rather than just acting impulsively without thought.
This has been shown to be what differentiates the best professionals from others.
Unfortunately the Wikipedia article on Professionalism was rubbish the last time I saw it - when I have time I mean to re-write it, including citations. 80.2.219.219 (talk) 17:20, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
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If what you are saying above is followed, then the human mind will be limiting itself with its past. One can only look at incremental improvement thereby, never achieving breakthrough. For PIONEERING, for invention, for creation, for discovery, the human mind needs a boundryless environment.
Human Self reflection should (and probably does) include exploring oneself. Even looking at your talents. Increasing today, people are exploring there creative abilities. So a scientist, who has mastered writing algorithms, turns into a fiction writer. A businessman tries himself in Choreography. An automobile engineer turns into a great chef.
The greatest form of self satisfaction is to find creative expression. But today's education system does not promote this. It promotes in classifying everything and drawing a boundary for everything. Learning what mankind already knows but not what needs to be explored. Especially oneself.
Even the creator has made no two people the same. Yet we continue to bring up our children in the same manner giving them no opportunity to delve into their individuality, their uniqueness.
Clearly, one is not able to discover their individual creative expression and they become another cog in wheel. Another face in the crowd, another entry in the database. Another slave of materialistic pleasures, another number whose birth and death will not be recorded anywhere except the Municipal registers.
I think Human Self reflection should enable one to find his true self, his reason for being, for fulfilling his destiny, for finding true satisfaction, for being a pioneer, for doing something which has never been done before.
- The above is very mystical, hippie-esque, druggie. I wonder if such musings have any place in an encycolpaedia. 80.2.219.219 (talk) 17:20, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
