Joel Castro
GEN/200
Due Week 5
Dr. Kerstin Cruz-Melendez
Personal Responsibility and Success
Even though too much personal responsibility can break someone, it is a means to form a better community because it breeds maturity and reliability. Accountability is learned from personal responsibility. Critical thinking helps you rationalize accountability. Accountability often forces maturity, reliability, and the capacity for moral decision into an individual and group lifestyle because of critical thinking being the resolution. A good example would be the relationship between personal responsibility and college success. There are many formidable answers to this statement, …show more content…
The community’s motivation is fueled by individuals who choose personal responsibility because they shine confidence and accountability wherever they go. Those who choose accountability at every turn set the example for the community because they understand that without accountability there is no trust or confidence in each other (Galindo, Linda. 2010 Leader to Leader Vol. 2010 Issue 56, page 17-20, para 4). There are many envious people in the world, but there will always be someone that will learn to go about life doing the best they can because of the impression that another person’s acts of personal responsibility has engraved in their mentality. Leading by example becomes the trend that helps others seek the development of society, becoming a larger …show more content…
A mature person will toughen up and adjust for the greater good when presented with the difficulty, struggles, and change personal responsibility provides. There are also many people who don’t mature because of their current and/or past related troubles. Sometimes we even go through or are born into a traumatic life experience and have to suffer. Even the outcome of these tragic misfortunes can be lead to a mature thought process. Thanks to personal responsibilities and maturity being documented and shared in book and web form, psychological discoveries, psychological programs, and advancements in today’s therapeutic and rehabilitation facilities have been formed in order to triumph our terrors and rise above our greatest fears. When becoming involved in these dramatic events, it provides the recipient of the knowledge presented different aspects of appreciation and discipline to live by, thus shaping his or her mind into a more mature persona that serves the community as an example of leadership. Because “they make the most faithful and reliable workers” (King, Mike. May 1994, Working for change [FINAL Edition] The Gazette, page A3), their maturity spreads leadership qualities amongst others, resulting in a more aware and protected environment and