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Knowing Oneself Why Is It Important To Know Oneself

It is important to know oneself because self-knowledge allows one to understand their unique identity, personality, and individuality. Knowing oneself involves understanding one's physical, spiritual, and psychological dimensions. Key factors in self-knowledge and personality development include attitudes, affect, cognition, behavior, self-concept, and self-esteem. Holistic self-development integrates mental, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual growth. Understanding oneself through knowledge, experience, creativity, and social learning helps develop one's whole person.

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Knowing Oneself Why Is It Important To Know Oneself

It is important to know oneself because self-knowledge allows one to understand their unique identity, personality, and individuality. Knowing oneself involves understanding one's physical, spiritual, and psychological dimensions. Key factors in self-knowledge and personality development include attitudes, affect, cognition, behavior, self-concept, and self-esteem. Holistic self-development integrates mental, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual growth. Understanding oneself through knowledge, experience, creativity, and social learning helps develop one's whole person.

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Knowing oneself why is it important to know oneself

SELF- It is popularly and generally defined as what an individual sees, perceives and defines oneself apart from others.
Dimension of the self
 Physical
 Spiritual
 Psychological

How unique are you?

1. A key factor in personality development is attitude- a settled way of thinking and feeling about someone or
something, typically reflecting in a person’s behavior.
o Implicit- Non-Verbal
o Explicit- Verbal
2. Affect- It is the term used to represent emotions directed to the self, environment and to others.
3. Cognition- It is the way we think. It encompasses our thoughts in different levels, ranging from ourselves to our
environment, from the imaginary to perceivable reality.
4. Behavior- It is the action from a manifestation of attitude. Without attitude, affect and cognition, behavior will be
rendered baseless and ungrounded.

How one’s attitudes are formed?

Knowledge Experience

Explanation: When you share knowledge, you will have experience.

Knowledge Experience Creativity

Explanation: With creativity we gain experience and knowledge.

Social Factors- Learning, Conditioning, Modelling

1. Self-Concept- what we think and know about our identity, personality and individuality.
2. Self-Esteem- What we feel about ourselves. More situation approaches. Focused on how we value ourselves.

Developing the whole person

1. Holistic Development- a process of self-actualization and learning that combines an individual’s mental,
physical, social, emotional and spiritual growth.
2. Mind and Body Dualism of Descartes- One of the modern philosophers of our time, influenced much of
mankind’s thinking with his theory of duality or understanding the nature of things in a simple and dual mode.
Rene Descartes- the Father of Modern Western Philosophy
YANG YIN

Male, Creation, Active,


Female, Passive,
Logical, Enlighten, Bright,
Intuitive, Creative,
Sun, Dominance,
Moon, Dark, Cold,
Upward movement,
Submission, Contracting,
Strong, Hot, Expanding,
Downward movement,
Hard movement,
Night, Soft
Mountains
Holism and Gestalt
Holism- health overcomes and lifestyle intervention in a sample of people with multiple sclerosis.
Gestalt- a configuration so unified as a whole that its properties cannot be derived from a simple summation of its
parts.

The Various Aspects of Holistic Development of Persons


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Behavior and Attitude


5 Core Values for the Workplace
1. Integrity
2. Accountability
3. Diligence
4. Perseverance
5. Discipline

Values and Virtue


Value- something that is related to a particular culture that is known as culturally accepted norms.
Virtue- a part of the culture and the good qualities they have within.

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