Personal
Development
Module I: Knowing Oneself
Recap/Recall
• “An unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates
• “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
• Self-Concept- refers to your awareness of yourself
• Actual Self – who you are
• Ideal Self – what you want to be and what you desire.
• The Johari Window Model
Table of contents
01 02
Self Personal
How to know oneself? Effectiveness
03 04
Uniqueness BIG FIVE
Personality Test
“Always remember that you
are absolutely unique. Just
like everyone else.”
—MARGARET MEAD
01
SELF
How to know oneself?
SELF
• In philosophical terms, it is the being which is
the source of a person’s consciousness.
• the essence of a person: his thoughts, feelings
and actions, experiences, beliefs, values,
principles, and relationships.
• Defined as the cognitive and affective
representation of one’s identity.
Personal
02 Effectivene
ss
Personal
Effectiveness
Means making use
of all the personal
resources-talents,
skills energy, and
time.
Infographics
Experience
Knowledge Skills
Is required for setting also determine whether real actions
goals and defining an are performed in accordance with
action plan. the plan.
Here are some skills that will greatly
increases the efficiency of any person who
owns them:
[Link]
2. SELF-CONFIDENCE
3. PERSISTENCE
4. MANAGING STRESS
5. PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS
6. CREATIVITY
7. GENERATING IDEAS
Build on Your
Strengths and
Work on Your
Weaknesses
03 UNIQUENE
SS
Activity 1: Expand your Horizon!
Think of the words or group of words that corresponds with the main theme or
word in the center of the mind mapping (uniqueness). Elaborate your answer why
this word/s is/are related to the main subject.
UNIQUENESS
UNIQUENESS is defined in different ways:
1. Being the only one or SOLE.
2. A person who has distinct characteristics.
3. The quality of being unique or unusual in
some special way.
4. A state or condition wherein someone or
something is unlike anything else in
comparison.
Jack Nollan (2020) of A Conscious [Link]
coined 10 Things that Make a Person Unique
1. Personality 6. Perspective
2. Attitude 7. Taste
3. Experiences 8. Goals
4. Habits 9. Hobbies
5. Creativity 10. Passion
This term is parallel
of being unique
D________
DIVERSITY
means more than just acknowledging and/or tolerating difference.
It is also a set of conscious practices that involve:
• Understanding and appreciating interdependence of humanity, cultures,
and the natural environment.
• Practicing mutual respect for qualities and experiences that are different
from our own.
• Understanding that diversity includes not only ways of being but also
ways of knowing;
• Recognizing that personal, cultural and institutionalized discrimination
creates and sustains privileges for some while creating and sustaining
disadvantages for others;
• Building alliances across differences so that we can work together to
eradicate all forms of discrimination.
04
Big Five
Personality Test
Big Five
Personality Test
The End