The document discusses how three factors - heredity, environment, and the self - shape a person's identity. Heredity refers to the genetic inheritance one receives at conception that provides potentials for development. The environment, including physical and socio-cultural influences, determines how those genetic potentials are realized. The self is one's awareness, consciousness, and sense of identity, which incorporates how one sees themselves, how others see them, and one's true self that is difficult to fully know. Understanding the interplay between these three factors can provide insight into human identity and development.

2. “Every man is three men: the
man he thinks he is, the man
others think he is, and the
man he really is.”

3. that which a person must rationally admit to be the actual
that which a person would aspire to become

4. In an effort to understand himself, man must
understand HEREDITY, ENVIRONMENT, and the SELF,
since these three shape him into the recognizable mold of
human beings.
Human life really begins at conception when the egg cell
of the female is fertilized by the sperm cell of the male. At
that point, the human being receives a genetic
inheritance which provides the basic potentialities for his
development and behavior.

6.  Man’s physical and
socio-cultural
environment heavily
influence the extent to
which his genetic
potentials are realized.

8. When psychologists refer to
the self, they do not think of
some “little person” sitting in
the brain, but rather a
concept necessary for
explaining the many aspects
of our perception, feeling,
thinking and behavior.

9. Observe what one has to say about
the self:
“I have an image about
myself. Physically, I’m slender; I
have short hair; and I have a
preference for my clothing style. I
am the nervous type, that which I
would most like to eliminate. But
despite this, I can say that I can still
enjoy my life. I’m optimistic,
sometimes overly so. Basically, I
like myself the way I am now.”

10. Self is awareness or consciousness. If you subtract the
objects that appear in awareness and the activities that place
in reflected awareness (the human mind.. perception,
experience, memory, thought, emotion, imagination, intuition,
etc.) you are left with simple, ordinary, uncontaminated
impersonal awareness.

11. According to Charles H. Cooley,
the self is any idea or system of
ideas which is associated with the
appropriate attitude we call self-
feeling.
3 Principal Elements of Self
1. the imagination of our
appearance to other persons
2. the imagination of his judgment
of that appearance
3. some sort of self-feeling such as
pride or mortification