Personal Responsibility

Personal Responsibility Joer Lopez Gen/200 November 26 2012 Gabrielle Lavia Personal Responsibility Personal responsibility is a part of daily lives; it can influence his or her career, relationships, and health. The ability to understand the important significance of personal responsibility can lead someone to become a better person. It defines who they are. Each individual has different views on how someone perceives what personal responsibility to him or her. Personal responsibility is inter-connected concepts of accountability and liability, it argues that some elements of responsibility can be determined through role and contract, sense of liability involves a sense of shared responsibility based in the concept of universal responsibility, (Robinson, 2009). What is personal responsibility Personal responsibility defines the obligation to hold somebody accountable for their actions, admit to their mistakes, and recognize his or her failures to learn and grow from him or her. Personal accountability can help someone grow as a person in entirety and will define that individuals character. A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with; a man is what he makes of himself (Bell, 2012). Possessing a good sense of responsibility can lead an important person to be successful in his or her career, have better health, improve education, and involved in better relationships. It will make the individual become a better person thus lead him or her to happiness. Not developing personal duty can also lead to possessing negative state of mind. There is a 21st century trend towards irresponsibility and lack of persistence that students show in the face of academic difficulty (Dichele, 2006). It becomes irresponsibility; this will result in lack of motivation, and low self-confidence. This will most likely lead somebody

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