Notre Dame of Tacurong College

Senior High School Department

City of Tacurong

Personal Development
 Notre Dame of Tacurong College
Senior High School Department
City of Tacurong

Topic 1. Knowing Oneself

Personal Development
 Objectives:
Upon completing the lesson , students
will be able to:
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 through activity writing.
 An
Introduction
to Self-
Development
 PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
 PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
is a process that helps teens overcome these
challenges. Personal development
undertakings that will enhance one's self-
confidence, and broaden his talents and skills.
 PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
• is an on-going process
• there is always something to improve
• person will always find something that
will enhance aspects of hid personality
and aptitude.
 Notre Dame of Tacurong College
Senior High School Department
City of Tacurong

Topic 1. Knowing Oneself

Personal Development
 Notre Dame of Tacurong College
Senior High School Department
City of Tacurong

TO WHAT EXTENT DID

YOU KNOW YOURSELF?
 SELF
WHAT IS IT?
 NATURE OF THE SELF
•The self is the product of an
individual’s social interaction with
another individual. Thus, self is a
collection of social activities and
experiences during the beginning of
individual’s social life.
 NATURE OF THE SELF
•Self is a cognitive structure that is based
on our childhood. It is the product
between the child’s social interaction and
the environment. Thus, the self can be
considered a phenomenal experience of
man’s self-identity.
 NATURE OF THE SELF
•The self is the main object of
every man’s consciousness. It
serves as the concrete
foundation of man’s intellect
and emotional state.
SELF CONCEPT
 Imagine yourself
looking into a
mirror. What do
you see? Do you
see your ideal self
or your actual
self?
Your ideal self
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.
Your actual self,
however, 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.
The actual self and the ideal self are two
broad categories of self-concept.
Self-concept refers to your
awareness of yourself. It is the
construct that negotiates
these two selves.
SELF-AWARENESS is about
understanding yourself in a
way that allows you to
know who you really are
and why you do things in
the way that you do.
•The actual self is built on self-knowledge.
•Self-knowledge is derived from social
interactions that provide insight into how
others react to you. The actual self is who
we actually are. It is how we think, how
we feel, look, and act. The actual self can
be seen by others, but because we have
no way of truly knowing how others view
us, the actual self is our self-image.
•The ideal self, on the other
hand, is how we want to be. It
is an idealized image that we
have developed over time,
based on what we have
learned and experienced.
•The ideal self could include
components of what our
parents have taught us, what
we admire in others, what our
society promotes, and what
we think is in our best interest.
•Alignment is important.
• If the way that I am (the actual
self) is aligned with the way that I
want to be (the ideal self), then I
will feel a sense of mental well-
being or peace of mind.
•If the way that I am is not aligned with how I
want to be, the incongruence, or lack of
alignment, will result in mental distress or
anxiety. The greater the level of incongruence
between the ideal self and real self, the
greater the level of resulting distress. Personal
development modules ultimate aim is
greater self-knowledge that will lead to
higher alignment between these two
personality domains.
Personal
effectiveness
•Means making use of all
the personal resources,
talents, skills, energy and
time, to enable you to
achieve life goals.
•Your knowledge of yourself and how
you manage yourself impacts directly
on your personal effectiveness. Being
self-aware, making the most of your
strengths, learning new skills and
techniques and behavioral flexibility
are all keys to improving your
personal performance.
•Our personal effectiveness depends
on our innate characteristics – talent
and experience accumulated in the
process of personal development.
Talents first are needed to be
identified and then developed to be
used in a particular subject area
(science, literature, sports, politics,
etc.).
• Experience includes
knowledge and skills that
we acquire in the process
of cognitive and practical
activities.
Here are some skills that
will greatly increase the
efficiency of any person
who owns them:
1. Determination. It allows you to focus
only on achieving a specific goal without
being distracted by less important things
or spontaneous desires. It may be
developed with the help of self-discipline
exercise.
2. 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.
To develop it, you need to learn yourself and your
capabilities, gain positive attitude and believe that
by performing right actions and achieving right goals
you will certainly reach success.
3. Persistence. It makes you keep
moving forward regardless of
emerging obstacles – problems,
laziness, bad emotional state, etc.
It reduces the costs of overcoming
obstacles. It can also be developed
with the help of self-discipline
exercise.
4. Managing stress. It helps combat
stress that arises in daily life from the
environment and other people. Stress
arises from the uncertainty in an
unknown situation when a lack of
information creates the risk of
negative consequences of your
actions. It increases efficiency in the
actively changing environment.
5. Problem-solving skills. They
help cope with the problems
encountered with a lack of
experience. It increases efficiency
by adopting new ways of achieving
goals when obtaining a new
experience.
6. Creativity. It allows you to find
extraordinary ways to carry out a
specific action that no one has
tried to use. It can lead to a
decrease or an increase of costs,
but usually the speed of action is
greatly increased when using
creative tools.
7. Generating ideas. It helps you achieve goals
using new, original, unconventional ideas. Idea is a
mental image of an object formed by the human
mind, which can be changed before being
implemented in the real world. For generating ideas
you can use a method of mental maps, which allows
you to materialize, visualize and scrutinize all your
ideas, which in turn contributes to the emergence
of new ideas. These are just some, but the most
important personal effectiveness skills which make
the achievement of any goal easier and less costly.
BUILD ON YOUR STRENGTHS AND
WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESSES
Most failures emanate from
weaknesses that are not
recognized or probably recognized
but not given appropriate
attention or remedy.
This could be a weakness in
communications, personality or ability.

Instead of giving up or indulging in self-

pity, take action. Go for speech lessons,
get skills upgrading, attend personality
development sessions or whatever
appropriate remedies to your perceived
weakness.
Instead of simply focusing on your
weaknesses, recognize your own
talents and abilities, build on
them, utilize them to your
greatest advantage. This is where
you can build your name and
popularity.
ACTIVITY: The best me!
On a one whole sheet of paper, write down all
your:
• unique characteristics
•Habits
• best experiences on your personality/es