PERSONALITY

DEVELOPMENT
LESSON 1: KNOWING
ONESELF-STRENGTHS &
LIMITATIONS
 Explain that knowing oneself
can make a person accept
OBJECTIVE: his/her strengths and
limitations and dealing with
others better.
 Start knowing yourself better.
Kindly work with a partner
(anyone who is available to give
you some assistance) and
ACTIVITY!!! assess how well you know
yourself by listing down your
values, characteristics and/or
traits using the Four Quadrants
of Oneself.
1. What do
you think is
the message
of the
cartoon?
2. How would
you describe the
thought of the
cartoonist
toward the
thoughts,
feelings and
adjustments
experienced
among
adolescents?
  The stages of man have many broad aspects
covering different developmental tasks and
adjustments.
 As an adolescent, it is undeniable that during
SELF-
this year, you find it most important to know
DEVELOPMEN yourselves deeper.
T
 You had experienced most of the time you find
yourself asking ‘what do you really want’ or
‘why do you really like doing these things or
being with these people’.
  Self-development is a process of discovering
oneself by realizing one's potentials and
capabilities that are shaped over time either by
studying in a formal school or through
SELF- environmental factors.
DEVELOPMEN  Along this realization, an individual encounters
T gradual changes deep within him/her that may
help him/her overcome unacceptable practices
or traits which lead him towards positive
change for his growth or self-fulfillment.
 It is also called personal development.
  Examining yourself, most specifically how you
react on things, your belief, traits, and values is
one of the most complicated things to do in the
SELF- world.
DEVELOPMEN  This lesson will be of great help for you to
T rediscover yourself better. Let us start by
knowing some concepts of understanding
oneself.
KNOW  “An unexamined life is not worth living”
THYSELF - Ancient Greek, Socrates.
  Know Thyself is an old maxim or aphorism
which in time has been used in varied
literature and consequently gained
KNOW different meanings.
THYSELF
 One of its meanings is recorded in the
Greek encyclopedia of knowledge called
“The Suda”
  “An individual could learn more by
studying others and that he/she can do
this by engaging himself/herself to
reading books.”
KNOW
THYSELF - Thomas Hobbes, in his famous work
The Leviathan
  a man who investigates himself/herself
and considers contemplating on what
he/she did or what he/she thinks,
reasons, hopes and/or fears and to what
grounds he/she feels all these can
KNOW consequently learn how to read and learn
THYSELF others’ thoughts and passions in similar
occasions.
 Thus, this statement leads us to the
realization that knowing oneself is the
open door that leads us to knowing
others better.
  Self-concept is one’s abstract and
general idea about him/herself
SELF- particularly toward his/her unique
CONCEPT personality and his/her own perception
about his/her set of values, point of views
and behavior.
  “a person’s existence depends on
his/her perception.”
SELF- - Rene Descartes, the Father of Modern
CONCEPT Philosophy
  This means that it is in the mind that we
know everything about ourselves like our
SELF- identity, passion, interest, feelings,
CONCEPT and/or intellect, thus everything that we
are comes from the mind.
  Self-concept theory has a lot of
suppositions regarding how people learn
SELF- to judge themselves.
CONCEPT
 Sincero named three aspects such as:
 Self-concept is learned
SELF-  Self-concept is organized
CONCEPT
 Self-concept is dynamic
 Self-concept is learned.
This explains that no individual is born
with self-concept.
SELF- A person will soon develop this as he/she
CONCEPT grows old.
This means that self-concept can only be
acquired as soon as the person learns how
to mingle with others.
 Self-concept is organized.
This stresses out that one’s perception
towards him/her is firm.
This means that a person may hear other
SELF- people’s point of view regarding him/her
CONCEPT but will keep on believing that what
he/she thinks of himself/herself is always
the right one.
Change on one’s perceptions towards
him/her, however, may also be possible
but it takes time.
 Self-concept is dynamic.
As an individual grows older, he/she
continues to encounter problems or
challenges that may reveal his/her self-
SELF- concept in that particular time or
CONCEPT situation.
A person will definitely respond to the
scenario based on his/her own insights and
how he/she perceives himself/herself in
the situation.
 Sigmund Freud
The creator of Psychoanalysis Theory and
Three the father of psychoanalysis.
components of
personality
 The Id.
Freud explained that man's personality is
Three driven by pleasure principle.
components of This means that the nature of Id is to
personality satisfy man's desire without thinking
much of the situation.
 The Ego
This is the second component of the
personality that is developed at
approximately the age of three.
Three
components of This operates according to reality which
personality makes it possible for the Id to work in a
more proper and satisfactory ways.
it is the job of the ego to provide a man
some guidelines on how to behave
accordingly while he fulfilled his pleasure.
 The Superego.
Freud believed that this aspect of man
begins to manifest as a child turns 5.
Three
components of This is the last component of personality
personality which holds our moral judgments or
concept of right and wrong that are
believed to be acquired from the family
and the environment.
Superego directs a man’s life in order for
him to avoid hurting