Self assessment is way of evaluating oneself. Sometimes, when trying to examine yourself, you exhibit a bias towards yourself unknowingly. This is known as the “bias blind spot”, where you tend to overlook biases you have towards yourself. In Self Assessment, you can avoid this by imagining yourself as a detached, objective observer.
If you assess yourself in terms of how you interview or perform job duties, this could greatly help your career. For example, you could interview for a job and if you are rejected or perform poorly, assess how you performed in the interview and what you might have done that caused you to fail. This will help you in the future in obtaining new positions. Or, if you tend to go through relationships quickly and often, you could assess what traits are causing partners to reject you instead of what traits of your partner you find unappealing. This will allow you to improve yourself and make you a more suitable partner in future relationships.
I find self assessment to be useful in a lot of areas of my life. Generally, if I get into an argument with my girlfriend, I first to try to assess the way I acted and spoke from an external perspective, to see if it could’ve been perceived as harsh or unfair. This is very helpful, because if you make it a habit of assessing yourself you’ll always see your own behavior how others may see it.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with self assessment. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Self Assessment
- I find myself being indecisive and taking too long to decide something
- Repeat myself. It is frustrating because it feels inefficient and I sometimes feel ignored or disrespected based on the reason someone wasn’t paying attention.
- Forced myself to go out and meet people. It was frustrating because I am constantly let down by the lack of interest and intellect I find in other people.
- Repeat myself to individuals that refuse to step up to the plate. I give people the answer to a problem, but they refuse to write it down or remember. This is frustrating because they are constantly making the same mistakes.
- Injured myself, ergo: sit and rest. I like to keep things in a forward motion. I feel guilt if I am sitting and resting.
- Proving myself in a new role, earning respect and credibility takes longer than I want to wait which I find frustrating. My superior is disinterested and does not engage.
- Comparing myself to others – Comparison is the thief of joy.
- Believing in myself. This is frustrating because I know I have more to offer than where I’m at in my life. I just don’t know how to get passed all the negative thoughts and step in the right direction to see the potential in myself.
- How to improve myself and what directions I should be considering in life from here.
- Try not to let myself be influenced by personal problems of others. It was frustrating because it involved other people and my decisions could influence their lives forever.
- The fear of getting myself out there! Frustrating cause it freezes me!
- Feeling confident in myself. Cause I’m a failure, and I’ll never be the person I want to be.
- Just being comfortable with myself I feel I’m never me have to always do what others expect and being scared of rejection from anyone
- Coping with & understanding myself. the problems I’ve had & analyzing my mistakes
- Working on a garage roof by myself. It was frustrating because it was extremely cold that day and I was the only one of three employees who showed up for work.
- I work long hours and devote myself without getting emotional and financial reward
- I think I’ve always challenge myself and always do something that I haven’t done before.
- I just find managing my time and myself in general very frustrating.
- Why is that sometimes I can’t get myself motivated to do things?
- At home I feel frustrated when I notice myself doing all the job while others are relaxing
- I had to accept the fact i have to accept myself. This was frustrating because I was not willing to do that! I wanted to impress someone and I should have only been myself.
- It’s frustrating that I cannot seem to get myself started to write some job applications.
- Working at BK, having to run the kitchen by myself because most of the people called into work or just didn’t show up.
- I find it very frustrating to keep repeating myself to those around me. After sending a message out through an email and also making an announcement, I am frustrated when I have to reiterate something previously said.
- Mentally, emotionally and physically convince myself to continue to stay positive despite great disappointment.
- I get very tired easily. I am starting to feel myself burning out.
- Because i don’t want to sit and i want to explore myself
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do is tell myself that people do care about me. It was frustrating because I usually want to tell myself they don’t because of their actions but I need to look on the positive side of things.
- Long hours and low pay. Constantly having to prove myself and “hustle” for gigs.
- Wait to become independent. Not being able to drive myself to places where I need to be
- Managing others: I am much more comfortable managing myself and get frustrated when people don’t naturally live up to my expectations :)
- Figure out what I’m good at and bad at, and also accept myself for who I am.
- Having to go to work with dad when I had the urge to work on myself
- Finding my path in life is frustrating because I second guess myself and I am overly critical of my work.
- That I have to stand still for 4 hours. I always have to keep myself busy or I get stressed.
- Deal with my shortcomings. These are things that I know about myself and wish I could change. Some are not so easy to uproot.
- One of the most frustrating things I’ve had to do was keeping myself from being overwhelmed and shutting down. I had a lot to juggle and almost got to the point where I didn’t want to do any of it
- Apply for summer internship because I have a hard time selling myself. I know I have a lot to offer but I feel like it sounds super cheesy when I put it down on paper
- Sitting idle. Cause I am loosing my sanity. I need work to keep myself busy.
- Be strong and convey confidence for someone who is depressed, when I, myself, am feeling the same.
- Being accepted into the nursing program. I’ve done everything to position myself in a good place to being accepted but it has been a very long process. I’m frustrated and would just like to know if I have been accepted or not.
- Trust Brian to be telling the truth as to why he hasn’t been in touch. Allow myself to be vulnerable. Live I. The present
- Trying to start essays for school with so much other work to do. I can’t fully devote myself to them the way I would like.
- The most fruatrating thing I had to do was this self-reflection essay. I think I know myself very well but it was so structured to the point it wasn’t really about me anymore.
- In understanding my emotions & Personality. Dealing with my emotions so I can understand myself better
- Trying to get my website up and done. I am great at being accountable to others, but not myself. I now have the time to put in the effort – but I just resist.
- Having to deal with a large workload that I know I can’t handle, but I still try to force myself to do it.
- The most frustrating thing i’ve had to do these past few days at home is try to understand myself. This is frustrating because i wished i was a lot more simpler and not as confusing and self-destructive as i am.
- Attempting to workout while sore , I felt as if I had not completed anything beneficial for myself that day. even though i helped others at work
- Trying to balance out everything I need to do or expected to do is frustrating. I over exert myself.
- The most frustrating thing that I’ve had un the recent dauys is that I feel not confident of myself. Whenever I start something I always drop it in the middle of it.
- I have been working very long hours and it is frustrating because I feel like I have almost no time to myself.
- I haven’t done anything in the past few days because I am so frustrated at my inability to creatively express myself or find any sort of direction, source of motivation or anything interesting enough to hold my attention for any length of time.
- I had to do a 6 paragraph essay and collect information and it had me going crazy trying to gather and organize myself.
- Talk to the people at ATT because they have been messing up our bill every month and it was frustrating having to explain myself a million times to the same people.
- The most important question is how to be motivated all the tme, to get interested every day.. the most frustrating thing- lie to myself
- I had to feign interest in conversation with others and hide my true feelings our of respect for them and to not cause consequences for myself
- Doing new calculations when I didn’t have adequate information at hand. Having to constantly ask for help or advise like I cant decide for myself.
- Procrastinated in getting next weeks assignments done. This is frustrating because I wanted to have them done by now, but I could not make myself buckle down and do it. I sat in my room watching tv all weekend.
- Best frustrating things i have done in the past is that i have the opportunity but i did not grab it, this is so frustrating because i never give myself the chance to try…
- Deal with a lot of customers at work with little to no help. It was frustrating because I’m new at the job and felt overwhelmed with having to do it by myself.
- I commit to too many activities. This past week I had one day where I was able to be at home. It was frustrating because I feel like I never have any time for myself.
- I have to write a lot of papers, and I don’t know if I should be in the school I’m at. The whole situtation was frustrating because I don’t know what to do with myself.
- I had to do a eassy or i wouldve failed 9th grade english and i had only 1 day to it. I worked my ass off slept around 3am, but i clunched it out, very proud of myself.
- Dealing with a set of decisions that prioritized security over adventure has led me to a point of severe dissatisfaction in my life. I need to figure out how to fix myself.
- The most frustrating thing i have ever in my life encountered is trying to get better at a talent. I start off awesome at it then i end up being so bad at it. i push myself but sometimes i get so frustrated i just give up..
- Probably trying to figure out what I’m supposed to do and where I’m supposed to go. People always expect the most from me and when I fail, I let everyone down including myself.
- I don’t know what I really like to do in my life. I want to be successful one but I don’t know which kind of branch I would work. This is my main problem. I want to find myself.
- I had plans to do something with someone and the other person did not follow through. I was frustrated because they did not stick to their word, therefore, I had to finish it by myself.
- Talking in public. I hate presenting because I never find it easy to do. Most of the times I struggle to find my words when people ask me to debate on some subjects. At the end I hate myself for looking so stupid
- This would have to be dealing with and overcoming without confrontation or problems occurring the rudeness and laziness of others cause me to have to pull there weight and causing more work for myself in the process.
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do in the past few days was volleyball practice. I’ve been practicing and trying to recognize my mistakes when I make them, but for some reason I can’t correct myself and adjust.
- I know that a relationship I am in is not going to last, but my partner cares about me so much, I don’t want to hurt them. This is frustrating because I know what needs to be done, but I can’t seem to bring myself to do it.
- I had to deal with team members that could not do work, who are without any initiative and require constant nagging to get them to work. Working them was hell and I felt that I could have done all of the work myself.