Personal Development help him /her overcome

Strengths and Limitations unacceptable practices or

traits which lead him
As an individual, we
towards positive change
commonly see other
for his growth or self-
people’s manner of doing
fulfillment. It is also called
things, beliefs and
personal development.
lifestyle. Most of the time,
we give comments and/or Know Thyself
judgement on how they
Know Thyself is an old
behave and react in
maxim or aphorism which
certain scenarios.
in time has been used in
However, it is observe that
varied literature and
most people find it hard to
consequently gained
make good and sound
different meanings. One
evaluation towards their
of its meaning is recorded
own behavior, traits, and
in the Greek encyclopedia
personality on how we see
of knowledge called “ The
ourselves as an individual
Suda ”
and understanding our
characters particularly as Socrates
young and late adolescent
“ An unexamined life is not
as part of the
worth living”
developmental stage.
Aristotle
Self Development
“Knowing yourself is the
Self-development is a
process of discovering beginning of all wisdom.”
oneself by realizing one’s Thomas Hobbes
potentials and capabilities
that are shaped over time Used the phrase “read
either by studying in a thyself” in his work “The
formal school or through Leviathan”.
environmental factors.  Stressed that an
Along this realization, an individual could learn
individual encounters more by studying
gradual changes deep others and that she/he
within him/her that may
 can do this by  No individual is born
engaging with self-concept.
himself/herself to  A person will soon
reading books. develop self-concept as
 Emphasized that he/she grows old.
person learns more by  Self-concept can only
studying oneself. be acquired as soon as
the person learns how
Self-Concept
to mingle with others.
Self-concept is one’s  Self-concept is
abstract and general idea influenced by the
about him/herself person’s environment.
particularly towards
2. Self-concept is
his/her unique personality
organized.
and his/her own
 Individual perceptions
perception about his/her
towards him/her is firm.
set of values, point of
 Even though a person
views and behaviors.
may other people’s
point of view regarding
him/her but will keep on
believing that what
Rene Descartes he/she thinks of
himself/herself is
Father of Modern always the right one.
Philosophy  Changes on one’s
Proposed that a person’s perceptions towards
existence depends on him/her, however may
his/her perception. also possible but it
takes time.
Stated that the mind is the
seat of consciousness.
Aspects of Self-concept
Theory according to 3. Self-concept is dynamic.
Sincero  As an individual
grows older, he/she
1. Self-concept is learned. continues to
 encounter challenges Provide a man with
or problems that may guidelines on how to
reveal his/her self- behave accordingly while
concept in that he fulfilled his pleasure.
particular time or
situation.
 Self-concept
undergoes SUPEEREGO (present by 5
development as the years old)
person goes through Holds man’s moral
different experiences. judgments or concept of
right and wrong that are
SIGMUND FREUD believed to be acquired in
Psychologist, neurologist the family and the
environment.
Creator of the Theory of
Psychoanalysis KNOWING ONESELF
Self-awareness
Father of Psychoanalysis
Self-awareness is an
Proposed that there are understanding of oneself
three components of as unique from others. As
personality. an individual, we
commonly observe, and
Three Components of
undeniably judge other
Personality
people’s manners, beliefs,
ID (present at birth) and lifestyle. However, it
Nature of Id is to satisfy can be perceived though,
man’s desire without the most people find it
thinking much of the hard to make good and
situation. sound evaluation toward
their own behavior, traits
EGO (present by 3 years
and personality.
old)
Operates according to Adolescence
reality which makes it
Adolescence is the period
possible for the Id work in
when a young individual
a more proper and
develops from a child into
satisfactory ways.
an adult. There are many worthwhile person. It is
changes that may happen refers to your belief in you
during their period such ability to succeed and
as: how you look, how you perform in various areas of
take your role in the life such as education,
community, how other work and relationships.
people expect you making
Albert Bandura
decision and how you
perceive yourself. Professor and psychologist
Self-esteem Stated that a man can
perform a certain job or
Self-esteem is your
achieving a specific goals
evaluation of your own
by mean of the different
worth. It may be a positive
factors that influence self-
or negative.
efficacy (Personal
Positive self-esteem is the Performances, Vicarious
valuation that is pleasing Performances, Verbal
and acceptable according Persuasion and Imaginal
to your standards and Performances)
others.
5 Factors that Affects Self-
Negative self-esteem is Esteem
the feeling of distraught or
Performance Experiences
down and unaccepted by
If your are good at
others.
achieving your specific
Rosenberg Self-esteem goal, then you probably
Scale is a popular explicit think that you will achieve
self-report measure or self- it again. When the
esteem. opposite happens, if you
fail, you will often think
Self-efficacy
that you will fail again.
Self-efficacy is the
measure of how much you
like or esteem yourself or
how much you believe you Vicarious Performances
are a decent and
If others achieve their goal reflect to improve
or specific task, the you’ll ourselves, it brings us
come to believe that you back to these (3)
will also achieve your goal. categories.
Verbal Persuasion Self as Social Actor
It is when people tell you
Self as Motivated Agent
wether they believe or not
on what you can do or Self as Autobiographical
cannot do. The effect of Author
your self-efficacy will
Six Steps on How to Make
depend on how that
a Rational Decision
person matters to you.
1. Define the problem
Imaginal Performances
(select your most
When you imagine
desired course)
yourself doing well, then it
2. Identify the criteria
will happen.
necessary to judge the
Affective States and multiple options (list
Physical Sensations things to be considered
like location, facilities,
If your mood or emotion
prestige, etc.
(e.g. shame) and physical
3. Weight the criteria
state (e.g. shaking) come
(rank the criteria based
together, it will affect your
on its importance to
self-efficacy. If negative
you)
mood connect with
4. Generate alternatives
negative physical
(the schools that
sensation , the result will
accepted you)
be negative. And if it is
5. Rate each alternative
positive, most likely the
on each criterion (rate
result will be positive.
each school on the
Dan McAdam criteria you have
identified) and
Psychologist
6. Compute the optimal
Reiterated that even there decision.
are many ways on how we Self as Social Actor
We are portraying different
roles and behaving for
every type/set of people in
front of us since we all
care about what people
think about us. It is
practically for social
acceptance.
Self as Motivated Agent
People act based on their
purpose. They do things
based on their own
dreams, desires, and
planned goals for the
future. This, though, is not
easily identifiable since it
is self-conceptualized
unless it was shared with
us.
Self as Autobiographical
Author
He/she as the creator of
hi/her own entire life story.
It is about how oneself is
developed from his/her
past, up to the present
and what he/she will
become in the future.