Learning to
Think Things Through
The standards that are most important in my life are
a standards professional integrity. While
there are numerous definitions when it comes to the term integrity, the common
factors include applying moral or ethical principles. To be honest, I believe most individuals
believe that they we have integrity, but the question is do they have an
understanding of what exactly having integrity means? I believe that anyone who
considers themselves as a professional, in any chosen career field owes a duty
of accountability to society and to their profession. This standard of professional integrity that
I have adopted involves accepting full responsibility for the integrity of
their own conduct, and for the activities of any family member if individual
under their direction or supervision. These
standards that I have adopted are especially important when applied to positions
of leadership.
There are two foundations for which I acquired these
standards my parent and my career in the military. I do not believe integrity is a trait that we
are born with, however I do believe it is “learned” as we go through different
stages of life. This is very important because as a child we have no foundation
of belief in basically anything. To us
what our parents tell us is correct. For this reason, I believe that, no two
people of group of individuals will possess the same value system. Yes there will be similarities but there will
be differences also. Now before you
apply professional integrity, you must first be taught integrity as an
individual in the early stages of life.
For me this process began at an early age, instilled in me by my parents,
grandparents and teachers. To be fair,
just because a person is raised in a positive environment does not mean they
will grow up to be a person of high standards of integrity. There have been many individuals who have
chosen to live a not so positive or legal life even though they were taught
integrity as an individual in their youth. In my opinion, the reason for this
shift in integrity can be based on not so ethical element such as peer pressure
or even things such as certain television programming. As I matured and started to grow as an adult,
I was exposed to integrity in the professional sense, learning to do the right
things and why it is important to me and others I influence.
Many would ask whether or not I have changed my standards
professional integrity over the years. I
don’t know if I have changed I how I view professional integrity, but how I
influence other when it concerns standards professional integrity has changed a
lot. I am no longer the person that
supervises hundreds of individuals. So
my influence factor has changed in that sense.
However, I do teach in various arenas, where I do influence a large
number of people. This is where I think
my application of critical thinking particularly fair-mindedness plays a vital
role in society. I have a personal goal
of having students understand integrity by getting them to question the relationships
that they have, to question how they conduct their lives, and for those who can
influences others that they may supervise, to question are they doing what I
considered professional and being a positive example of what I consider
professional integrity.
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