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PERDEV Lesson 1

This document discusses the importance of self-knowledge and understanding one's own personality. It provides quotes emphasizing how understanding yourself leads to wisdom, happiness, and better decision making. The document defines personality in psychological terms, as a unique set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts and motives that characterize an individual. It states that personality refers to individual differences in particular traits as well as how those traits come together as a whole, enduring characterization. The goal of studying personality is to understand both uniqueness and consistency in people's patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.

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PERDEV Lesson 1

This document discusses the importance of self-knowledge and understanding one's own personality. It provides quotes emphasizing how understanding yourself leads to wisdom, happiness, and better decision making. The document defines personality in psychological terms, as a unique set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts and motives that characterize an individual. It states that personality refers to individual differences in particular traits as well as how those traits come together as a whole, enduring characterization. The goal of studying personality is to understand both uniqueness and consistency in people's patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.

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WELCOME TO PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT

TEACHER:
MARGARETT KENN G. SUMAGAYSAY-TIQUIAN
Lesson 1: Knowing Oneself
“KNOWING OTHERS IS INTELLIGENCE;
KNOWING YOURSELF IS TRUE WISDOM.
MASTERING OTHERS IS STRENGTH;
MASTERING YOURSELF IS TRUE POWER.
IF YOU REALIZE THAT YOU HAVE ENOUGH,
YOU ARE TRULY RICH.” AND “THE COST
OF NOT FOLLOWING YOUR HEART, IS
SPENDING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
WISHING YOU HAD.” -- BY: J. PAULSEN
It's really important to take some time to get
to know yourself. Sometimes it seems like
others know us better that we know ourselves!
When you're planning for your future, it helps
if you know more about your own thoughts,
values, ideas, and personality. Knowing
yourself is really important for a lot of things,
such as making friends and understanding
how you communicate best.
“Knowing oneself is the beginning of wisdom”. This
renowned quote is often attributed to Socrates. But what exactly
do you benefit when you know and understand who you are?
When a person has a self-knowledge, he understands his strengths
and weaknesses, his passions and fears, his life’s desires and
dreams. This means he is aware of his eccentricities (peculiarities)
and idiosyncrasies (habits), likes and dislikes, tolerance and
limitations. The person knows his purpose in life (Doherty, 2017).
Meg Selig (2016) suggests that when a person knew who he
is, he develops understanding of himself, he would be happier
because he can express who he is. He develops less inner conflict,
make better decision and better choices about everything and
understands what motivates him.
Subsequently, she emphasized that when a person knows
himself better, he has the resistance to social pressure, he is
grounded in his values and preferences and is less likely to say
“yes” when he wants to say “no” and at the same time develops
tolerance and understanding of others. He can easily help and
empathize with others.
The word “self” is identified in various contexts, such as in
psychology, sociology or religion. The “self” is the essence of a
person: his thought, feelings and actions, experiences, beliefs,
values, principles, and relationships. The “self” includes a person’s
life purpose, meaning and aspirations.
If the self is defined as the cognitive and affective
representation of one’s identity, it is then defined in terms of
human characteristics such as behavior and thought.
In Psychology, the term personality is referred to
as the set of behaviours, feelings, thoughts, and
motives that identifies an individual. Personality is the
essence of who we are and is the embodiment of one’s
physical, psychological, cognitive, affective, and
spiritual self. Therefore, when we speak of the “self”,
we will describe it in personality terms.
There is an abundant definition of what
personality is. In this lesson, we will define personality
in the same way as psychologists define it.
Personality psychologists have different viewpoints.
One definition states “personality refers to the unique and
relatively enduring set of behaviours, feelings, thoughts, and
motives that characterize an individual” (Feist and Rosenberg
2012).
Personality refers to individual differences in
characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. The
study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is
understanding individual differences in particular personality
characteristics, such as sociability or irritability (the
uniqueness). The other is understanding how the various
parts of a person come together as a whole (being relatively
enduring).
REFERENCES

Penetrante, M. (2016). Personal Development. Cronica


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