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Knowing Oneself

The document focuses on self-discovery and identity, emphasizing the importance of understanding oneself to accept strengths and limitations while improving interactions with others. It discusses concepts such as self-concept, personality traits, and personal effectiveness, highlighting skills like determination, self-confidence, and creativity. Additionally, it encourages maintaining a journal for reflection on personal insights and growth.

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Knowing Oneself

The document focuses on self-discovery and identity, emphasizing the importance of understanding oneself to accept strengths and limitations while improving interactions with others. It discusses concepts such as self-concept, personality traits, and personal effectiveness, highlighting skills like determination, self-confidence, and creativity. Additionally, it encourages maintaining a journal for reflection on personal insights and growth.

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Knowing Oneself

Self – Discovery and Identity


UNIT 1: Self-Development
• Objectives: At the of this module, you will be
able to:
1. Explain that knowing yourself can make you
accept your strengths and limitations and
dealing with others better;
2. Share your unique characteristics, habits, and
experiences; and
3. start and maintain a journal
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SEPXREIECEN
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FELS-CODINICEFEN
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FELS-CODINICEFEN
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DKNEGOWEL
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AGINGMAN STERSS
The answers are unique to each person, yet
all should lead to a pearl of discovery about
oneself.

Self – discovery is an essential


personal task.

It is a keystone to personal
development
What is “SELF”?
• In Philosophical terms, it is the being, which is
the source of a person’s consciousness
– It is the agent responsible for an individual’s
thoughts and actions.
• It includes a person’s life
Purpose, meaning, and
aspiration.
Personality and the Self
• In Psychology, the term personality is referred to
as the set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and
motives that identifies an individual.
• Personality is the essence of who we are and the
embodiment of one’s physical, psychological,
cognitive, affective, and spiritual self.
• In Psychology, the “self” will
be described in terms of
personality.
Personality according to
. Psychologists
Feist and Rosenberg, 2012
• Personality refers to the unique
and relatively enduring set of
behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and
motives that characterize
individual.
Gordon Allport
• Personality is a pattern of habits,
attitudes, and traits
that determine an
individual’s
characteristics,
behavior, and traits.
NATURE, NURTURE, and
• . PERSONALITY
• Nature – heredity
or genetic make-
up
• Nurture -
environment
Trait Theory
• An approach in identifying types of
personalities based on certain traits or
attitudes, which vary from one person to
the other.
• Personality Trait – a disposition to behave
consistently in a particular way.
Example: shyness or social awkwardness
Self-Concept- refers to your
awareness of yourself.
TWO categories:

Ideal Self
-It is the self that you aspire to be. It is
the one that you hope will possess
characteristics similar to that of a
mentor or some other worldly figure.
TWO categories:

Actual Self-
It is the one that you actually see. It is
the self that has characteristics that
you were nurtured or, in some cases,
born to have.
• Self-knowledge

-It is derived from social interactions that provide


insight into how others react to you. It is who we
actually are. It is how we think, how we feel, look, and
act.
Example:
“I am aware that I am wearing a shirt.
.
• Self-image
-It is how others view as to who you are.
-Seeing yourself as an attractive and desirable
person.
-Seeing a happy, healthy person when you look
in the mirror.
Personal Effectiveness
-making use all personal resources such as
talents, skills, energy and time to enable you
to achieve life goals.
Here are some skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of any person
who owns them:

DETERMINATION-
It allows you to focus only on achieving a
specific goal without being distracted by less
important things. It maybe developed with
the help of self-discipline exercise.
Here are some skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of any person
who owns them:

DETERMINATION-
It allows you to focus only on achieving a
specific goal without being distracted by less
important things. It maybe developed with
the help of self-discipline exercise.
Here are some skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of any person
who owns them:

• For example, a person may be


determined to graduate from college
and get a degree despite financial
hardships.
• Or a baseball player may be determined
to catch a ball that seems hit too far
away. He tries his best to catch that ball
instead of giving up on it.
Here are some skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of any person
who owns them:

• For example, a person may be


determined to graduate from college
and get a degree despite financial
hardships.
• Or a baseball player may be determined
to catch a ball that seems hit too far
away. He tries his best to catch that ball
instead of giving up on it.
Self-Confidence

It appears in the process of personal


development, as a result of getting
aware of yourself, your actions and their
consequences. Self-confidence is
manifested in speech, appearance,
dressing, gait, and physical condition.
Self-Confidence

It appears in the process of personal


development, as a result of getting
aware of yourself, your actions and their
consequences. Self-confidence is
manifested in speech, appearance,
dressing, gait, and physical condition.
Persistence
It makes you keep moving forward
regardless of emerging-obstacles-
problems, laziness, bad emotional state,
etc.
Managing stress
It helps combat stress that arises in daily
life from the environment and other
people.
Creativity
It allows you to find extraordinary ways
to carry out a specific action that no one
has tried to use.
Generating Ideas
It helps you to achieve goals using new,
original, unconventional ideas.
Big Five Trait Theory
• .
Big Five Trait Theory
Measuring Personality
• Through observation
• Rorschach Inkblot Test
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
WRITTEN WORK
• In your journal, write your:
a. thoughts and feelings about what you
have discovered and understood about
your “self”, your personality and
personality traits, and
b. your reflection regarding the question
“Who am I?”.
Source:
• Personal Development by Ricardo Rubio
Santos

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