Ahmed Ibrahim

900141794
Professor Carol Clark
Core1010
Final integrated essay
The End Of The Journey
After 12 weeks of self discovery, the journey into self has come to an end but its a
happy ending though. This has helped me discover myself and gain awareness of the
things that I wasnt aware of before. This journey was an eye opener to me and a new
experience which helped me develop and understand myself better and others as well.
To begin with, at the beginning of this journey I learned about perception and typology
and that everyone has his own unique skills and personality that makes him different
from the other person. Moreover, I learned that every person has his own mind map that
makes him perceive the world from a different perspective than others point of view.
Understanding this helped me understand others , their strengths and weaknesses which
enabled me to stop making false judgments on others according to their stereotypes. I
also learned about the shadow and the persona and the shadow projection and how my
inner drive and desire that are hidden in the back of my brain affected my interaction with
the closest people around me thinking that they were forcing me to things I dont want to
to do when it turned out to be the things I wanted to do and achieve most It help pay more
attention to my drive and also helped me take a step towards achieving these goals and

desire.What also helped face my inner desire was the3-2-1 activity , it helped me see
the picture clearly and face my own shadow.
What is more, I learned about society and the social norms and the rules that bind
people together. An interesting experiment we did was violating the social norms in
public and pay attention to how people react, this experiment helped me overcome
anxiety and fear of rejection which were my weakness points. I learned also about the
cognitive theories and how to learn through observing people and skills that I want to
model and acquire. I used this theory in modeling people who showed confidence by
observing how they acted which is a thingI wanted to gain. Another thing I learned about
was the spiritual side of me which was a new interesting experience. We did meditation in
classed which became a habit that I learned and continued to do until now. It helped me
gain mental clarity and peace of mind. I learned about human cognitive evolution and
how human develop and the memes and the spiral dynamics which made me realize that
we dont just evolve physically but also mentally and their behavior changes as the time
passes.
At the end of this journey I learned about death and near death experiences which is the
end of each persons journey in life. It helped me rethink about life and what does it
mean, it also helped me think about my purpose and goals that I want to achieve in this
life before I die.
To sum up, taking this course was the best thing I have ever experienced which made
discover myself and think about the goals I want to achieve . It also helped me

understand every aspect of myself better others as well and know my true power and
potentials and discover my purpose in life.