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Week 1 Actual Self and Ideal Self

The document discusses the difference between a person's actual self and ideal self. The actual self is who we are based on self-knowledge from social interactions, while the ideal self is who we want to be based on learning and experiences. Alignment between these two is important for mental well-being, while lack of alignment can cause distress. Personal effectiveness relies on using all personal resources like skills, talents, and motivation to achieve goals. Developing self-awareness, strengths, and skills like determination, self-confidence, persistence, stress management, problem-solving, creativity, and idea generation can improve personal effectiveness.

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Week 1 Actual Self and Ideal Self

The document discusses the difference between a person's actual self and ideal self. The actual self is who we are based on self-knowledge from social interactions, while the ideal self is who we want to be based on learning and experiences. Alignment between these two is important for mental well-being, while lack of alignment can cause distress. Personal effectiveness relies on using all personal resources like skills, talents, and motivation to achieve goals. Developing self-awareness, strengths, and skills like determination, self-confidence, persistence, stress management, problem-solving, creativity, and idea generation can improve personal effectiveness.

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Knowing your

Actual and
Ideal Self
LET’S ANSWER THIS
Describe yourself in three words.

What kind of personality do you have?

What qualities you most admire of


yourself?
LET’S ANSWER THIS
What is your biggest strength?

What is your biggest weakness?

How would you complete this question:


“What if?”
ACTIVITY 1: SELF-
CONCEPT
INVENTORY
1. What are the areas you
consider yourself strong (with
score 14-16 or somewhat weak
(score of 10-13) and very weak
(below 10).
2. Are there qualities you
consider as your weakness but
other people consider as your
strength? What are these?
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.
WHAT DO YOU THINK
IS THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN

ACTUAL SELF AND


IDEAL SELF?
Actual
Self
The actual self is
built on self-
knowledge.
self-knowledge is derived from social
interactions that provide insight into
how others react to you.
Actual
Self
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-
Ideal Self
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.
Ideal Self
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
of Ideal Self
and Actual
Self is
important.
Why?
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.
FOR ALL THOSE
WHO EXPERIENCE
NONALIGNMENT OF
ACTUAL SELF AND
IDEAL
FOR ALL THOSE
WHO EXPERIENCE
NONALIGNMENT OF
ACTUAL SELF AND
IDEAL
Personal effectiveness
means making use of all
personal resources-
talent, skills, energy and
time, to enable you to
It’s an approach to success that
involves utilising all of your energy,
skill and motivation to develop and
reach the goals you set for yourself.
Individuals with good personal
effectiveness tend to constantly
strive to achieve more, advance their
careers and grow in both a personal
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 in
improving your personal
Our personal effectiveness
depends on our innate
characteristics – talent and
experience accumulated in
the process of personal
development.
Skills also determine
whether real actions are
performed in accordance
with the plan. If the same
ability is used many times
in the same situation, then
it becomes a habit that
.Here are some skills
that will greatly
increase the efficiency
of any person who owns
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-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,
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.
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
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
Problem-solving
skills.
They help cope with
the problems
encountered with a
lack of experience. It
increases efficiency
by adopting new ways
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
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
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.

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