In my research I have a more comprehensive understanding of personalities and identity. Personalities and identities are complex. My research started from basic understanding of a term to more in-depth research on certain theories. There is a blind spot of knowing who I think I am and who I really am because, living in the society as social animals, who people think we are is actually important in understanding our personalities and identities, understanding the roles we play in society —- from home, school, workplace, to society, and the country.

 

To understand ourselves better, we need to be mindful of our behaviors. It is always quite different when people are among other people from when people are alone. To understand my identity, it comes to the exploration of self, which led me to what Freud proposed of Id, ego, and super-ego. And the interaction of Id, ego, and superego is like a guideline of our behaviors that indicate who we are. I realized that we cannot just simply be ourselves because what we think people think of us determine the personas that we choose to show, which may not who we really are. System, as a society or a community, endows people with different identities. It is important to know our identities to fit in a community, to serve a purpose, to coordinate our Id with our superego to be the best version of self. In my research I find that people tend to focus more on their relationship with others rather than the relationship with their selves, but if people are not mindful of their relationship with themselves, if they don’t have a clear self-identity, people would easily get lost, and not realize their worth in a community. And then realize I have an identity crisis and I have to figure out where do I fit in a community.  Also, when people get to understand themselves better, they understand others better, and then they understand the system better, and they can improve themselves to be better.