The more a person knows about themself, the more they can accept themselves, and cope with situations more amiccably. Instead of 'changing' themselves, they can work on strengths and weaknesess as an individual. This could be empowering, rather than seeing the world only as WE do, and being egocentric. Seeing the good and bad in yourself is a matter of self discovery, and I think a person needs to be humble to accept their faults, but faults are not necessarily permenant.
Image is one way of showing what a person is like. In terms of self- image, this is peceived as suggesting that 'this is how I am wanting to be seen, this is what I want to potray at first sight.' for example, you called yourself a 'mean bitch to live with' in your previous post, and that may be true for all I know, but more likely it seems like for some strange reason you want people to see what picture of yourself, or else you wouldn't have said it. As the first judgement of a person is made in the first seven seconds (and of course most or all of that will be from sight) an appearance is important.
However, what is more important is that a person builds up a 'reputation' which is the external image from another source i.e. another person, which brings me back to my original point.
I dont think you understand my point about image and personality, as in the two are totally different. Image can reflect your personality, but your personality is what people get to know you for, and what peppers up the mundane aspects of your life, and 'turns' you into a person. In summary, boy bands have images, real people have personlities.
