MODULE 1.

1 UNIQUENESS
Uniqueness is defined in different ways and
here are some of the collective definitions:
1. Being the only one or SOLE.
2. A person who has distinct characteristics.
3. The quality of being unique or unusual in
some special way.
4. A state or condition wherein someone or
something is unlike anything else in
comparison.
These definitions provide us a vivid thought that
each of us possesses peculiarity from each other.
• 10 Things that Make a Person Unique (Jack
Nolan (2020))
1. PERSONALITY - that stretches from the day
a person started to see and experience life in
the world leading to gathering information,
knowledge, acquiring skills, possessing
emotional responses, and making choices
differently from other people.
2. ATTITUDE – that becomes the anchor of
becoming either positive or negative in
life, perceiving how people act in front of
you, and an offshoot of your emotional
landscape.
3. EXPERIENCES – that shape you on how
you act and behave today. If you experienced
negative, you tend to behave anxious or
defensive; however, some would deal with it as a
motivator while experiencing positive that
improves your senses
in
understanding the world.
4. HABITS – that normally we do everyday in
our lives such as our eating habits, personal
hygiene practices, meditation exercises, and
trying new things. Cliché but as they
always say and globally accepted and
favored. “You are what you do, not what
you say you’ll do” and that makes you
unique from others.
5. CREATIVITY – such as
dancing, painting, singing,
producing useful things out of scrap
materials, defining beauty in a
different way and perspective
makes you unique.
6. PERSPECTIVE – saying that no other
people understands the world as you do because
they do not live like exactly 24 hours beside you.
Your experience is not the same with others,
your body of knowledge is not the same as
theirs. That is why the gaps are filled from each
own unique perspective to continuously develop
and improve.
7. TASTE – that is a unique facet of you
because you have different likes and
dislikes from other people.
8. GOALS – that are set in different
manners depending on how you create
steps and procedures in achieving those.
9. HOBBIES – that improves your personal
growth and mental health such as
gardening, cooking, and gaming.
10. PASSION – that provides direction
toward a goal or experience that will allow
us to leave a unique mark in this world such
as involvement in philanthropic activities
like giving and supporting people in need.
These 10 things that make people
unique from others greatly show
that individuals have their own set
of characteristics that can be shown
to the world.
• Problem arises due to limitation of widening
each horizon in accepting and facing people
worldwide.
• In the United States of America, some people
who experienced discrimination were reported
due to individual differences such as in race,
religion, color of the skin, hobbies, language,
and personality.
•In the Philippine setting, one of the
primary social issues in terms of
differences is the acceptance of what we
call as categorized in the LGBTQ
community seeking for quality in work,
school, and facilities.
•Diversity is also one term that is parallel of
being unique. It has been a major advocacy
of some in the world since we differ in
culture, tradition, and belief particularly on
how we perceived ourselves individually
based on who nurtured us and the nature or
location that we are in.
•“Diversity” means more that
just acknowledging and/or
tolerating difference.
( JPantaleo, 2020)
•
Diversity is set of conscious practices that
involve:
• Understanding and appreciating
interdependence of humanity, cultures, and
the natural environment.
• Practicing mutual respect for qualities and
experiences that are different from our own.
• Understanding diversity includes not only ways of
being but also ways of knowing.
• Recognizing that personal, cultural and
institutionalized discrimination creates and sustains
privileges for some while creating and sustaining
disadvantages for others.
• Building alliances across differences so that we can
work together to eradicate all forms of
discrimination.
•In a specific sense of being unique person,
Big Five, and the Myers-Brigss Type
Indicator can guide you in determining
your personality traits or characteristics by
Costa and McRae (1992)
•These personality traits as one measurement in
determining our own personal characteristics
can easily memorized and identified with an
acronym of OCEAN. The table is subdivided
into 2 scores which include lower scores and
higher scores.
•Low scores means you do not
possess the dimension and high
score means you have the
dimension as your
characteristics.
• For example, if you tend to determine if you
possess extroversion in a rating of 1-5 with which 1
is the lowest and 5 is the highest, lets say when you
rate yourself in the score of 1 in this dimension
then it shows that you may be identified as being a
lonely person, quiet, passive or reserved. The same
as with other dimensions. In this manner, you can
easily categorize your characteristics as a person.
• The summation of being unique one has been
advantageous not only to oneself but with
other people leading towards Understanding,
Tolerance, and Acceptance. These 3 things
fused together to help each other perceive
ourselves as an individual with different
characteristics, habits, and experiences.
• The basic concept of understanding is when we
know ourselves and our ability to understand the
feelings of others, and vice versa, tolerance
associated with willingness, to accept behavior
and beliefs that are different from your own with
fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward
those whose opinions, practices, race, religion,
nationality, etc. differ from one’s own freedom;
although your might not agree with or approve
of them such as in the example of religion
where scriptures are not alike with the religion
that you have, and acceptance is simply the
process of assenting or recognizing a process or
condition without attempting to change, protest,
or exit. (Fish, Jefferson M. 2014)
• With the existence of being unique one, how
could you possibly share your own
characteristics, habits, and experiences
confidently?
• Now, you may stand in the mirror and
reflect after answering the question “Who
am I?” from the previous lesson.
•Now, you can tell yourself, “I know that I
am a sole being, I know that I am capable of
. I know the things that make me relaxed
and comfortable. I know that I am molded
because of what I have experienced. And
with these, I understand others.”