Getting Around (2024)

FAQs

How do I answer the question "Am I enough?"? ›

If you believe that you are enough you can confidently move in the direction of your goals and ultimate desires. To better understand the idea that you are enough, think for a moment about the idea that you aren't enough (chilling, I know). If you didn't believe that you were enough you'd always have self-doubt.

Offer To Find The Answer

There's no shame in admitting you don't have all the answers. Humility is a crucial quality of a good leader. If asked something you don't know, the best thing to do is be honest and say you don't know. Then, offer to find out the answer.

To find an accurate, peer-reviewed answer to your question, the best place to look is academic websites. Search the website for articles, lectures, and videos relevant to your question to gather research towards the answer. Some popular academic websites include Academia, JSTOR, and Bartleby.

Take time each day to write down something positive you have done that day or something you like about yourself. This encourages you to focus on the good stuff and helps you to ignore the critical voice. Done regularly, this can contribute to learning to accept yourself.

I would say… You are good enough even if it's hard to believe. You are able to be better than yesterday even if you feel like you can't. You are important even if you make yourself small.

Ask clarifying questions

Pose some questions to get more information about the context or consider rephrasing the question to check that you've heard it correctly. By doing this, you can understand the question better and gain some time to think about a suitable response.

Use the STAR method to answer behavioral questions, like “Can you share a time when…” STAR stands for situation, task, action, and result and is meant to help you structure your answers to those questions.

How to answer smartly? ›

First, make sure you understand the question

It's important to listen carefully, then pause for a moment and reflect. Make sure that you understand the question clearly before you answer it. If you're not clear about the question, ask a clarifying question of your own.

The question-answer teaching method focuses on asking students to answer sets of questions in replacement of lecturing. The designed questions should encourage and challenge students to correct their misconceptions and understand the concept by themselves" [27] .

Eliminate the highest and lowest options. Certain questions have answers that are closely related or almost identical, except for one detail. This should be your clue to choose one of the two similar answers. The similar choices cannot both be correct, but either of them may be the correct answer.

It doesn't mean that you've worked long enough, tried hard enough, presented well enough. It's simply who you are. The you that you are is enough. You don't have to be more, or do more, or buy more to be who you are meant to be.

Final Thoughts on "I Am Enough"

By practicing self-compassion, setting realistic goals, surrounding yourself with positive influences, and finding your purpose, you can start to believe in yourself and live with confidence and self-acceptance.

“I am enough” DOESN'T mean I have been considered and measured and now finally earned the “enough” label. It doesn't mean that you've tried enough, worked hard enough, presented and prepared well enough. It simply means, you're who you are, you don't need to be someone else.