Personal Development:
Knowing Oneself
Main Ideas:
 You need to know different aspects of
your life to better understand yourself.
 You need to know your values, interests,
skills, and talents.
 You need to know yourself to choose the
right career.
Self
is the union of elements, namely: body,
thoughts, feelings or emotions and
sensations that constitute the individuality and
identity of a person.
Elements of Self
1. Body - constitute your physical attributes,
your health, and your posture and poise
2. Thoughts - the way you think, and how you
perceive things around you affect how you feel
about them and bring about sensations.
3. Feelings/Emotions
- a particular feeling or experience that may not
have a real cause.
- are the strong feelings such as: anger, love,
happiness, that affects the way you act and
behave to the situation.
4. Behavior/Sensation
- Sensation occurs when sensory receptors
detect sensory stimuli.
- Perception involves the organization,
interpretation, and conscious experience of those
sensations.
1. Self-awareness is about knowing yourself.
-This is knowing your thoughts, feelings,
and actions.
-When you know yourself, you can make good
choices.
Strength - the quality that allows someone to
deal with problems in a determined and effective
way.
Weakness - a quality feature that prevents
someone from being effective or useful.
To be Self-aware, you need to know:
Your Values
Your Interests
Your Skills
Your Talents
 Your Values Are What is Important to
You
- You can become more self-aware by thinking
about your values.
- You want to make a good match between your
values and your career.
- When you live by your values, you can be
proud of your life.
- Most happy people take pride in their work
and live by their values.
Which Values are most important to you?
 Helping other people
 Being part of a family
 Earning a lot of money
 Having good health
 Being a spiritual or religious person
 Your Interests are the Things You
Like to Do
A. You can figure out your interests by thinking
about your experiences at school, home,
work, and in the community.
B. How you spend your leisure time is
another clue to your interests.
C. You can learn about your interests and
identify jobs that are right for you by taking an
interest survey.
D. An interest survey is a list of questions about
your likes and dislikes.
 Your Skills are Your Specific Abilities
Skills are things you know how to do.
- Taking care of children is
a skill.
- Operating a wheelchair is a skill.
- When you put knowledge and practice
together, you get a skill.
- To improve a skill, you need to learn more and
practice more. Practice means repeating
something again and again.
Two Types of Skills
 Job-specific Skills
- skills are abilities you need to do a specific job,
like using a table saw.
 Transferable Skills
- are general abilities, like reading and
writing, and personal qualities, like
responsibility and honesty.

 Your Talents are Your Natural Gifts
- A talent is the ability to do something
easily or to learn something easily.
- You will be happier if you choose a career
that lets you use your special talents.
Three Types of Talents
 Mental Talents - Talents that involve
thinking and creativity.
 Physical Talents - Talents that involve
using your body.
 Social Talents - Talents that involve
getting along with other people.
2. Self-concept
- It is the person’s beliefs and perceptions
about himself or herself.
- According to Rogers, self-concept has three
different components:
Self-worth (self-esteem), self-image, and
ideal self.
-Your self-image is how you picture yourself
in your mind.
When you have a positive
self-image:
- You feel good about yourself.
- You can picture yourself achieving what you
want in life.
 Self-worth is also called as self-esteem, it is
the set of beliefs we hold about yourselves.
 Self-Confidence is the belief that you can
do something well or succeed at something.
Advantages of Self-esteem
1. It helps you feel confident.
2. It helps you try new things.
3. It helps you learn.
4. It helps you get along with other people.
5. It helps you succeed at school and on the
job.

3. Being an individual
- Everyone is different.
- Different aspects of yourself/life makes you an
individual.

Your Attitude is the way of thinking that

affects a person’s behavior
Attitude –determines how you handle or
approach certain things, and it is all up to
your own decision how you are going to do those
particular things.
Verbal-linguistic
4. Personality are good with words.
Learners
- The set of emotional qualities, ways of
behaving, etc., that makes a person different Logical-
from other people. are good with
mathematical
- Attractive qualities (such as energy, numbers.
Learners
friendliness, and humor) that make a
person interesting or pleasant to be with. Visual-spatial are good at imagining
Learners things.
Your Personality is How You Think, Feel,
and Act Musical-rhythmic
- The different ways people naturally think and have musical talent.
Learners
learn.
- There are eight different learning styles. Bodily-kinesthetic like to touch things
Learners and move around.
The Eight Learning Styles
(the table) Interpersonal
are good with people.
Learners
Self-image is How You See Yourself
Intrapersonal are usually very self-
Learners aware and confident.

Naturalistic
enjoy nature.
Learners