This document discusses self-development during middle and late adolescence. It defines the concepts of the ideal self, which is how one aspires to be, and the actual self, which is one's true self. There is negotiation between these two selves through social interactions from infancy to adulthood. Self-knowledge, derived from social feedback, shapes one's self-concept and actual self. Personal effectiveness relies on using one's talents, skills, and experiences to achieve goals and can be improved through self-awareness and developing determination, self-confidence, persistence, stress management, problem-solving, creativity, and idea generation.
This document discusses self-development during middle and late adolescence. It defines the concepts of the ideal self, which is how one aspires to be, and the actual self, which is one's true self. There is negotiation between these two selves through social interactions from infancy to adulthood. Self-knowledge, derived from social feedback, shapes one's self-concept and actual self. Personal effectiveness relies on using one's talents, skills, and experiences to achieve goals and can be improved through self-awareness and developing determination, self-confidence, persistence, stress management, problem-solving, creativity, and idea generation.
This document discusses self-development during middle and late adolescence. It defines the concepts of the ideal self, which is how one aspires to be, and the actual self, which is one's true self. There is negotiation between these two selves through social interactions from infancy to adulthood. Self-knowledge, derived from social feedback, shapes one's self-concept and actual self. Personal effectiveness relies on using one's talents, skills, and experiences to achieve goals and can be improved through self-awareness and developing determination, self-confidence, persistence, stress management, problem-solving, creativity, and idea generation.
This document discusses self-development during middle and late adolescence. It defines the concepts of the ideal self, which is how one aspires to be, and the actual self, which is one's true self. There is negotiation between these two selves through social interactions from infancy to adulthood. Self-knowledge, derived from social feedback, shapes one's self-concept and actual self. Personal effectiveness relies on using one's talents, skills, and experiences to achieve goals and can be improved through self-awareness and developing determination, self-confidence, persistence, stress management, problem-solving, creativity, and idea generation.
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UNIT 1 :
SELF- DEVELOPMENT
MODULE 1: KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF DURING MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE BIG QUESTION:
How can understanding
yourself pave the way to self-acceptance and better relationship with others? Before we discuss how to know one’s self. We have to define first the concept of the “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 thoughts and actions. The self is identified in various contexts, such as in psychology, sociology, or religion, The “Self” is the essence of a person: his thoughts, feelings and actions, experiences, beliefs, values, principles, and relationships. The “Self” includes a person’s life purpose, meaning and aspirations. Imagine yourself looking into the mirror. What do you see? Do you see your ideal self... or your actual self? IDEAL SELF it is the self that you aspire to be. IDEAL SELF It is the one that you hope will possess characteristics similar to that of a mentor of some other worldly figure. ACTUAL SELF It is the one that you actually see. ACTUAL SELF It is the self that has characteristics that you were nurtured or, in some cases, born to have. SELF-CONCEPT refers to your awareness of yourself. Self-Concept- refers to awareness of yourself The actual self is built on self-knowledge. SELF-KNOWLEDGE
is derived from social
interactions that provide insight into how others react to you. 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-image. 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. The ideal self could include components of what our parents taught us, what we admire in others, what our society promotes, and what we think is our best interest. There are negotiation that exists between the two selves because there are numerous exchanges between the ideal and actual self. These exchanges are exemplified in social roles that are adjusted and re-adjusted, and are derived from outcomes of social interactions from infant to adult development. PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Personal Effectiveness means
making use of all the personal resources – talents, skills, energy, time, to enable you to achieve life goals. Your knowledge of your self and how you manage yourself impacts directly on your personal effectiveness. Being self- aware, the most of your strengths, learning new skills and techniques and behavioral flexibility are all keys to improving your personal performance. Our personal effectiveness depends on our innate characteristics – talent and experience accumulated in the process of personal development. Talents first needed to be identified and then developed to be used in a particular subject area like science, literature, sports , politics , etc. Experience includes knowledge and skills that we acquire in the process of cognitive and practical activities. Knowledge is required for setting goals, defining an action plan to achieve them and risk assessment. Skills also determine whether real actions are performed in accordance with the plan SKILLS THAT WILL GREATLY INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF ANY PERSON WHO OWNS THEM 1. 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 – discipline exercises. 2. Self- confidence . It appears in the process of personal development , as a result of getting aware of your self, your actions and their consequences . Self-confidence is manifested in speech, appearance, dressing, gait and physical condition. To develop it, you need to learn your self and your capabilities, gain positive attitude and believe that by performing right actions and achieving right goals you will certainly reach success. 3.Persistence. It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles- problems, laziness, bad emotional state. It reduces the costs of overcoming obstacles. It can also be developed with the help of self -discipline exercise. 4. 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 actions. It increases efficiency in the actively changing environment. 5. Problem-solving skills. They help cope with the problems encountered with a lack of experience . It increases efficiency by adopting new ways of achieving goals when obtaining a new experiences. 6. 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 increased when using creative tools. 7. 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 changed before being implemented in the real world.