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PERDEV Lecture 2 Knowing Oneself

Knowing oneself is important for personal development. It involves understanding one's unique personality traits, characteristics, habits, experiences, core values, dreams, likes, dislikes, and physical abilities. Self-knowledge provides benefits such as happiness, less inner conflict, better decision-making, self-control, and resistance to social pressure. True wisdom and power come from mastering oneself rather than others. The document provides tips for getting to know oneself through reflection and journaling.

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PERDEV Lecture 2 Knowing Oneself

Knowing oneself is important for personal development. It involves understanding one's unique personality traits, characteristics, habits, experiences, core values, dreams, likes, dislikes, and physical abilities. Self-knowledge provides benefits such as happiness, less inner conflict, better decision-making, self-control, and resistance to social pressure. True wisdom and power come from mastering oneself rather than others. The document provides tips for getting to know oneself through reflection and journaling.

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PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT
“Knowing Oneself”
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Explain that knowing oneself can make a
person accept his/her strengths and
limitations and dealing with others better.

Share his/her unique characteristics,


habits, and experiences

Maintain a journal
Future Career

Religious and
Identity Political
Beliefs

Knowing Oneself is the first


step in personal development
The most important thing to pursue was
self-knowledge.

Admitting one’s ignorance is the beginning of true


knowledge.

SOCRATES

The beginning of knowledge is


self-knowledge

PLATO
“Enquiry into the truth of the “self” is knowledge”
- Upanishads (Ancient Hindu Writings ) -

“Who am I in the midst of all this thoughts traffic?”


- Rumi (Persian Poet) -

“Self is a simple, separate person”


- Walt Whitman (American Poet -
In Philosophical term:
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.
In Psychology:
It is also 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 Spiritual realm:
Self includes a person’s life purpose, meaning, and
aspirations.
PERSONALITY
In psychology, it refers to unique and relatively enduring set
of behaviours, feelings, thoughts, and motives that
characterize an individual (Feist and Rosenberg, 2012).

Two key components being highlighted in this definition:

• Uniqueness

• Relatively enduring – means being consistent, over


different situations and over time.
FRIENDLY

outgoing Sunny
disposition

Easily be
liked by Readiness to
others give advice
when needed

Not
threatening or Generous
aggressive

If throughout time, this is perceived from adolescent to


adulthood, then there is consistency.
Consistency means
most of the time, but, not all the time.
PERSONALITY
Essence of who we are and is the embodiment of one’s
physical, psychological, cognitive, affective, and
spiritual self.

When we speak of “self”, we will describe


it in personality terms
How to get to know your “self”?
1. Get to know your personality
The idea is to get to know your personality inside out, to
know what you are and what you are not like. Understand what
makes you react a certain way in life’s myriad of situations. Ask
yourself “Why did I do that?” and answer it.
What are
Who are you What are your
you like in
behind your name? characteristics
good days?
traits?
Who are you
among your How about in
How about on bad days?
friends? strangers?

How do you react in the What persona do you portray


world around you? to the outside world?
How to get to know your “self”?
2. Get to know your core values
Your core values are the morale codes and the principles
you hold near and dear to your heart. 
In your school, in your home, in all aspects of your life,
which values can you never compromise? Those are your core
values.
Integrity
Commitment Teamwork
Honesty

Accountability Excellence
How to get to know your “self”?
3. Get to know your body

How well do you Breathing? Flexibility?


know your body? Abilities? Limitations?

Have you ever said “my body can’t do this” and that “my
body type won’t do that” without even trying a physical
challenge?
How to get to know your “self”?
4. Get to know your dreams

Your dreams and hopes create the pathway into your


future. They help you build the life you can be proud of living.

Your dreams matter!

Your dreams are important!

Your dreams are worth going after!


How to get to know your “self”?
5. Get to know your likes and dislikes

Take the time to define your likes and dislikes, and don’t


put it up for a vote among family and friends. You decide..

Stay true to your likes and dislikes. Nobody has to like


them but you!
Now…
Ask yourself…

WHO REALLY AM I?
The Benefits of Self-Knowledge

Happiness

Less inner conflict

Better Decision-Making

Self-Control

Resistance to social pressure

Tolerance and understanding

Vitality and pleasure


Knowing others is intelligence;
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength;


Mastering yourself is true power.
Activity

Group yourselves into five, and on a clean


sheet of paper, each one shall draw a symbol
of what represents his/herself that identifies
his/her unique traits over the others. You will
then share the unique characteristics, habits,
and experiences you have to your group.
Assignment

Write on your journal your thoughts and


feelings about what you have discovered and
understood about your “self”, your
personality and personality traits, and your
reflection regarding the question “Who Am
I?”
NATURE, NURTURE and PERSONALITY

Personality is influenced by both nature


(heredity/genetic make-up) and nurture
(environment). There is no single gene that
creates the trait.

Traits are always a combination of genes,


environmental exposure and experiences,
and cultural backgrounds.
ASIAN vs.
Asian exhibit
WESTERN
a
They will look at their
behaviour and its
strong “interpersonal
impact on their
relatedness”
personal goals.

They will always They will see working


consider how this overseas a career
will affect his family move to enhance
and social ties at career growth.
home.
BIG FIVE

- categorized scheme that described


personality. It is the result of the research
conducted by Costa and McRae (1992)
PERSONALITY TRAIT
It is a disposition to behave consistently in a
particular way.

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