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This document discusses how to better know oneself through reflection on one's characteristics, habits, experiences, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and decision-making processes. It describes that characteristics are one's unique qualities, habits are things done repeatedly, and experiences shape who we are. Self-esteem and self-efficacy are influenced by performance, vicarious experiences, persuasion, and imagination. The document also discusses reflecting on oneself as a social actor, motivated agent, and autobiographical author and making rational decisions using a six step process of defining the problem, identifying criteria, weighting criteria, generating alternatives, rating alternatives, and computing the optimal decision.

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Knowing Oneself Perdev

This document discusses how to better know oneself through reflection on one's characteristics, habits, experiences, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and decision-making processes. It describes that characteristics are one's unique qualities, habits are things done repeatedly, and experiences shape who we are. Self-esteem and self-efficacy are influenced by performance, vicarious experiences, persuasion, and imagination. The document also discusses reflecting on oneself as a social actor, motivated agent, and autobiographical author and making rational decisions using a six step process of defining the problem, identifying criteria, weighting criteria, generating alternatives, rating alternatives, and computing the optimal decision.

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Knowing oneself -

Characteristics, Habits, and Experiences

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Knowing oneself

As an individual, we commonly
observe, and undeniably,
judge other people's, manners,beliefs and lifestyle
However, it can be perceived, through,
that most people find it hard to make
good and sound evaluation toward their
own behavior, traits, and personality
In this lesson, we will try to know ourselves better
by having careful reflections on how we see
ourselves as an individual and understanding our
characters particularly as young and late
adolescent.
develops from a child into an adult. There are many
changes that can happen to an adolescent like you and
some of those are: how you look, how you take your role
in the community, how other people expect you in making
decisions on your own, and how you perceive yourself.
Although the "Self" is one of the factors of what we
thought about ourselves, it is also the result of what we
think and/or do.

Many people believe that we are the product of our own


experiences. Those experiences shape our unique qualities
and habits that define who we as a person and differ from
others. Your features or own qualities that made you a
unique are characteristics; when you do something
repeatedly and regularly it is a habit; and experiences are
the skills or knowledge you have gained because you have
done it already from the past.
Self-esteem is your evaluation of your own worth.
It may be positive or negative. Positive self-esteem
is the valuation that is pleasing and acceptable
according to your standard and that of others,
while negative self-esteem is the opposite which is
feeling distraught or down and unaccepted by
others. Our self- concept will contain many
positive thoughts and we will have high self-
esteem if we have completed an important task,
done something that we believe is valuable or
important, or if we feel accepted and respected by
others. Thus, self-esteem does not imply that one
believes that he or she is better than others, only
that he or she is a person of worth (Diener &
Lucas 2017).
Efficacy has a specific impact on behavior and emotions, allowing people to effectively
manage problems and achieve desired outcomes. It is your desire to influence
something specific. It's a self-confidence in your ability to attain your most significant
goal. The greater the likelihood of achieving a positive outcome, the stronger the belief.
For example, if you want to get a better grade and are secure in your belief, it will
happen.

Self-efficacy may sound like a term you're already familiar with-self-esteem- but
they're not the same thing. Self-esteem is the measure of how much you like or
"esteem" yourself, or how much you believe you are a decent and worthwhile person.
Self-efficacy, on the other hand, refers to your belief in your ability to succeed and
perform well in various areas of life, such as education, work, and relationships (Syrett
2020).

You can perform a certain job or achieving a specific goal by means of these five (5)
different ways that influenced self-efficacy, from the ideas of Albert Badura, a
professor, and a psychologist.

(a) Performance Experiences if you are good at achieving your specific goal, then you
probably think that you will achieve it again. When the opposite happens, if you fail,
you will often think that you will fail again.
(b) Vicarious Performances if others achieved their goal or specific task, then you'll
come to believe that you will also achieve your goal.
(c) Verbal Persuasion it is when people tell you whether they believe or not on what you
can do or cannot do. The effect of your self-efficacy will depend on how that person
matters to you.
(d) Imaginal Performances When you imagine yourself doing well, then it will happen.
Have you tried to talk with yourself in front of the mirror? What did you see?
According to William James, a psychologist, "the self is what happens when I
reflect upon ME". Taylor described the self as a Reflective Project. How we
see ourselves is geared toward improving ourselves depending on a lot of
factors.

Dan McAdam, a psychologist, reiterated that even there are many ways on
how we reflect to improve ourselves, it brings us back to these three (3)
categories:

1. 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.

2. Self as Motivated Agent


o 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.

3. Self as Autobiographical Author


He/she as the creator of his/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.
As an individual, you are expected to act and decide on your own. Most
people tend to decide based on the intuitions and available information
that could be a hindrance in making a wise decision and that could be a
habit.
It is recommended that people think through critical judgement or
decision. Unfortunately, we don't always do so. (Jhangiani 2020) Many of
us place far more trust in our instincts than we should. And, even when
we try to think logically, the way we enter data into formal decision-
making procedures is frequently biased.
For instance, you applied for different courses in six (6) different
universities, and you were able to qualify in all. Now, how will you
decide? To help you, the idea of Bazerman and Moore in 2013 reiterated
by Jhangiani that suggests the Six Steps on How to Make a Rational
Decision:
1. Define the Problem (select your most desired course);
2. Identify the criteria necessary to judge the multiple options (list things
to be considered like location, facilities, prestige, etc.);
3. Weight the criteria (rank the criteria based on its importance to you);
4. Generate alternatives (the schools that accepted you);
5. Rate each alternative on each criterion (rate each school on the criteria
you have identified); and
6. Compute the optimal decision

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