Self-Responsibility Crisis And Self-Ownership In Professional Life

There is a self-responsibility crisis. Many things people are told are there for their benefit have failed them. Only through self-ownership and investing in yourself can you reach your goals.

There is a crisis in accepting self-responsibility. The best way to take back your life is to practice self-responsibility. Accepting self-ownership can help you in your personal life and your professional life.

Loss Of Responsibility On A Societal Level

People have been encouraged to outsource their responsibility and thinking to “authorities” and “experts.” Those “authority” figures and “experts” can be found in the institutions people are told they must trust, from the mainstream media to the government to big corporations.

There is a growing loss of confidence in society’s institutions. Growing distrust in society’s institutions may not necessarily be bad. It may be a way for people to return to accepting self-responsibility and start investing in themselves rather than outsourcing to institutions.

Source: Gallup, Historically Low Faith in U.S. Institutions Continues

Loss Of Responsibility On An Individual Level

There are numerous consequences for giving up self-responsibility on the individual level. Some of them include:

• Loss of critical thinking.

• Being unable to think for oneself.

• Failing to do your own research.

• Believing everything that comes from an “authority figure,” “expert,” or “leader.”

• Thinking that the education system is meant to help you.

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When you give up self-responsibility, you start to outsource your critical thinking. Instead of being able to think for yourself, you allow the talking heads on the news or wherever you get your news from to do your thinking for you. You decide to trust what someone in “authority” tells you instead of spending some time doing your own research. When you believe everything without question, you can be easily misdirected by the people that society tells you are the people you should be listening to.

There is the belief that the purpose of the education system is to help you learn the skills you need to succeed in life. There is also the thought college is meant to help you find a career.

The education system is there to create compliant students who will become nonthinking employees. The modern college education system furthers that by making students go into debt.

Many college degrees are just worthless. Many students then go into debt to end up working a job they may have been able to work without attending college. Yet, people think they must go to college, listen to “authority figures,” and not question many things they have been told about how society is supposed to function.

Be a good person. Do not ask questions. Do not think for yourself. Conform to popular culture. Do not take responsibility for your life.

Instead, you can start to practice self-responsibility. You can start to question authority. You can learn critical thinking skills. You can begin to think for yourself and do your own research. You can learn basic research skills. You can embrace self-learning.

You can even take responsibility for your health, finances, and relationships. Self-responsibility is freedom. You accept the hard path with self-responsibility, but it.

You can start to accept self-responsibility in your personal and professional life. If you want to work to leave the employee model, you can develop the skills to begin your own business.

Self-Ownership In Your Personal And Professional Life