3. Learning competencies:
1.1 Explain that knowing oneself
can make a person his/her
strengths and limitations and
dealing with others better.
1.2 Share his/her unique
characteristics, habits, and
experiences.
1.3 Maintain a journal
4.
5.
6. The answers are unique to each person,
yet all should lead to a pearl of discovery
about oneself.
Self – discovery is an essential
personal task.
It is a keystone to personal
development
7.
8.
9. What is “SELF”?
• In Philosophical terms, it is the being, which is
the source of a person’s consciousness
– It is the agent responsible for an individual’s
thoughts and actions.
• It includes a person’s life
Purpose, meaning, and
aspiration.
11. The Public Self - the part of ourselves that we are
happy to share with others and discuss openly.
The Private Self parts of us that are too private to
share with others. We hide these away and refuse
to discuss them with other people or even expose
them in any way.
The Blind Self We often assume that the public
and private selves are all that we are. However, the
views that others have of us may be different from
those we have of ourselves.
12. The Undiscovered Self is one which neither we
nor other people see. This undiscovered self may
include both good and bad things that may remain
forever undiscovered or may one day be
discovered, entering the private, blind or maybe
even public selves. Between the Blind and
Undiscovered Selves, are partly hidden selves that
only some people see. Psychologists and those
who are more emphatic, for example, may well see
more than the average person.
13. Personality and the Self
• In Psychology, the term personality is referred
to as the set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts,
and motives that identifies an individual.
• Personality is the essence of who we are
• In Psychology, the “self” will
be described in terms of
personality.
14. What is SELF-AWARENESS?
Awareness of the different
aspects of the self
First component of self-
concept to emerge
Psychological State
focusing on oneself
We are not born
completely self-aware.
15. What is SELF-AWARENESS?
Lewis and Brooks-Gunn found that almost no
children under one year of age would reach
for their own nose rather than the reflection in
the mirror. About 25 % of the infants
between 15 and 18 months reached for
their own noses while about 70 % of those
between 21 and 24 months did so. (Visual
awareness)
16. How does SELF-AWARENESS
develop?
Researchers have proposed that an area of the
brain known as the anterior cingulate cortex located
in the frontal lobe region plays an important role in
developing self-awareness.
However, one study found that a patient retained
self-awareness even with extensive damage to
areas of the brain including the insula and the
anterior cingulate cortex. This suggests that these
areas of the brain are not required for most aspects
of self-awareness and that awareness may instead
arise from interactions distributed among brain
networks.
17. Levels of self-awareness
Level 1: Differentiation - At this point, children
start to become aware that what it reflected in a
mirror is different from what they simply perceive in
the environment.
Level 2: Situation - This level of self-awareness is
characterized by a growing understanding that self
produced movements can be seen in the mirror's
surface. Children are also aware that it is their own
movements they are observing.
18. Levels of self-awareness
Level 3: Identification - At this point, children
recognize the image in the mirror as themselves
Level 4: Permanence - Children can not only identify
themselves reflected in a mirror, can identify their
image.
Level 5: Self-consciousness or "meta" self-
awareness - At this level, children are not only aware of
themselves from their own perspective, but also
become aware of how they are in the minds of others.
27. Feist and Rosenberg, 2012
• Personality refers to the unique
and relatively enduring set of
behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and
motives that characterize
individual.
28. Gordon Allport
• Personality is a pattern of habits,
attitudes, and traits
that determine an
individual’s
characteristics,
behavior, and traits.
30. • Nature – heredity
or genetic make-
up
• Nurture -
environment
31. Trait Theory
• An approach in identifying types of
personalities based on certain traits or
attitudes, which vary from one person to
the other.
• Personality Trait – a disposition to behave
consistently in a particular way.
Example: shyness or social awkwardness
32. WRITTEN WORK
• In your journal, write your:
a. thoughts and feelings about what you
have discovered and understood about
your “self”, your personality and
personality traits, and
b. your reflection regarding the question
“Who am I?”.
Personal development is a process of improving one self. But only you can improve yourself if you know yourself, if you know who you are. But the question is how well do you know yourself? In contrast with human development that involves mental, physical, emotion and social development of a person, self-development on the other hand involves self-awareness pr self-knowledge includes thoughts, feelings and behavior.
As you go through the journey of knowing yourself better you will acquire values and qualities or attitudes to better yourself.
The word self is generally defined as what an individual sees himself or herself that separate him/her from the others. Self-perception is also associated with SELF. What we think and know about our identity.
Johari window is a helpful tool that will allow you to self reflect or review or discover yourself. These includes the way you look on yourself known to your and also unknown to you and the way others might perceive you. All collectively talks about you as the main focus of attention- knowing yourself. Our goal is to minimize the blind spot, and expand the area that both us and our peers know about us.
and the embodiment of one’s physical, psychological, cognitive, affective, and spiritual self.
Complex sense of awareness begins at the age of 1 yr. old and develops more approximately 18 months of age.
So how exactly do indivduals become aware of themselves as separate beings? Researchers suggest that children progress through a series of levels of self-awareness between birth and approximately age 4 or 5. Self-awareness is observed by how children respond to their own reflection in a mirror.
You would feel grateful for who you are when you are self-aware and have the acceptance for who you are. Without pretentious.
Whe you act accordingly to what you really feel for yourself and not according to what others want for you would feel more liberated and feel more YOU.
When you know yourself and aware of what you can, you will make informed choices better because you truly know what is best and works for you.
Being able to know and tame your emotions, having known truly yourself you could have the self-control and you don’t act reactively but think of a proactive act rather than just responsing.
Having self awareness means you have your limitations as to what you allow to be serve on your table, when people are not anymore serving good and are pressuring you to do bad, you have to set boundaries and limits. You no longer look for approval and social validation and you have learned to say NO for peer pressure.
You become more empathetic towards others and understand that committing mistakes and short comings are for human. And that’s how human learnings are designed we got to know and improve by going through trials and commiting mistakes. And that’s perfectly okay and part of our self-development.
