PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

LESSON 1 - Knowing Oneself - Strengths & Limitations

LESSON 2 - Knowing Oneself –

Characteristics, Habits, and
Experiences

MS. RUBY B. HERAMIA

OBJECTIVES

After going through these lessons, you are

expected to:

a. assess yourself by identifying values you

uphold
b. share your unique characteristics, habits
and experiences.
c. make a poem about the essence of
knowing oneself
Activity 1 - Four Quadrants of Oneself

 Work with a partner and assess how well you know yourself by
listing down your values, characteristics and/or traits using the Four
Quadrants of Oneself.

 I. Values you know well you possess

 II. Values you and others knew you possess
 III. Values you and others hardly knew you possess
 Iv. Values others knew well you possess
Self-development
 isa process of discovering oneself by realizing one’s potentials and
capabilities that are shaped over time either by studying in a formal
school or through environmental factors.
 An individual encounters gradual changes deep within him/her that
may help him/her overcome unacceptable practices or traits which
lead him towards positive change for his growth or self-fulfillment -
Personal Development.
Know
Thyself
“AN
UNEXAMINED
LIFE IS NOT
WORTH LIVING.”
- SOCRATES
 The realization that
knowing oneself is
the open door that
leads us to knowing
others better. - Thomas
Hobbes
Self

 is the foundation of all

human behavior.
 It is our sense of
identity and of who
we are as an
individual (James
1890; Mead, 1934).
Self-concept

 isone’s abstract and general idea

about him/herself particularly
toward his/her unique personality
and his/her own perception about
his/her set of values, point of views
and behavior.
 A person’s existence depends
on his/her perception.

 Ourmind is the seat of

consciousness.
-
Rene Descartes
Self-Concept Theory (Sincero)

 Self-concept is learned. - self-concept is

influenced by the person’s environment and
can be a product of the person’s socialization.
 Self-conceptis organized. - one’s perception
towards himself/herself is firm.
 Self-concept is dynamic. - self-concept
undergoes development as the person goes
through different experiences.
 Three Components of Personality (Psychoanalysis
Theory – S. Freud)

 The Id - Man's personality is driven by pleasure

principle.
 TheEgo - It is the job of the ego to provide a
man some guidelines on how to behave
accordingly while he fulfilled his pleasure.
 TheSuperego - Holds our moral judgments or
concept of right and wrong that are believed to be
acquired from the family and the environment.
Remember…

 Personality is developed as man learns the

culture of distinguishing right from wrong
based on the set of guidelines and standards
that are known to people which might have
been probably imposed by the people in the
community like parents, teachers, elders or
the community as a whole.
Self-Esteem
 is your evaluation of your own
worth.
 Positive self-esteem is the
valuation that is pleasing and
acceptable according to your
standard and that of others.
 Negative self-esteem is the
opposite which is feeling
distraught or down and
unaccepted by others.
Factors in identifying the level of self-esteem of
an individual (Tafarodi & Swann,1995)

 own appearance
 how satisfied you are in a
relationship
 how you view your
performance
Remember..

Self-esteem may
change from time to
time depending on
the situation we
encounter in our daily
life.
Self-Efficacy
 isyour beliefs about what you can
do with your abilities (Stajkovic &
Luthans, 1998).
 Itis your will to produce an effect
on a specific thing.
 Itis your self-belief to effectively
achieve your most important goal.
 The stronger the belief, the bigger
the possibility to achieve a positive
result.
Self and Identity

 The self is what happens when I reflect

upon ME. (William James)
 Taylor (1989) described the self as a
Reflective Project.
 How we see ourselves is
geared toward improving
ourselves depending on a lot of
factors.
Three Categories on how we reflect to
improve ourselves (Dan McAdam)
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.
2. 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.
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.
Judgment and Decision Making

Most people tend to decide

As an individual, you are based on the intuitions and
expected to act and decide available information that
on your own. could be a hindrance in
making a wise decision.
 Six Steps on How to Make a
Rational Decision (Bazerman and
Moore, 2013)
1. Define the Problem
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
5. Rate each alternative on each criterion (rate each
school on the criteria you have identified); and
6. Compute the optimal decision.
ACTIVITY 2 - Sharing Oneself
 Strengths
 Weaknesses
 Hobbies
 Talents
 Favorites
 Achievements
 Failures
 Unforgettable events that have valuable learning in life
Let’s get deeper…

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself

is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.” - Lao Tzu

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all

wisdom.” - Aristotle
ASSESSMENT

Make a haiku (poem) about the

essence of knowing oneself.
A haiku is an unrhymed Japanese poetic form that consists of 17 syllables
arranged in three lines containing five, seven, and five syllables,
respectively.
ACTIVITY 6 – REFLECTION

I understand…
I realize…