MODULE 1

Knowing Oneself –Strengths and

Limitations
 Explain that knowing
oneself can make a
person accept his/ her
Objectives strengths and limitations
and dealing with others
better.
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S an individual , is
e expected to act
l and decide on
f his/her own
 • A process of discovering oneself
S by realizing one’s potentials and
E capabilities that are shaped over
L time either by studying in a
formal school or through
F environmental factors.
DEVELOPMENT • Taking steps to better yourself /
efforts toward self-fulfillment.

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 P An individual encounter
E
gradual changes deep within
R
S
him/her that may help
O him/her overcome
N unacceptable practices or
A traits which lead towards
L positive change for his
DEVELOPMENT growth or self – fulfillment.

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 “ An unexamined life is not worth
living.”-Socrates

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“Read Thyself”- Thomas Hobbes”

• an individual could learn more by

studying others and that he/she can
do this by engaging himself/herself to
reading books
 Self- Concept
Rene Descartes, Father of Modern
Philosophy
 is ones abstract and general idea
about him/herself particularly
Self- toward his/her unique
Concept personality and his/her own
perception about his/her set of
values, point of views and
behavior.
 3 Aspectsof Self-Concept
by Sincero

SELF-CONCEPT IS
LEARNED

SELF-CONCEPT IS SELF-CONCEPT IS
DYNAMIC ORGANIZED
 3 Components of Self
Sigmund Freud
1. The Id • Psychologist
• Neurologist
• Creator of
2. The Ego Psychoanalysis
Theory
3. The Super Ego • Father of
Psychoanalysis

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 3 Components of Self
Sigmund Freud

1. The Id

Man’s personality is driven by pleasure

principle.
The nature is, when the Id want it, the rest
are no longer important.

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 3 Components of Self
Sigmund Freud

Second component of the personality that is

developed at approximately the age of three.
2. The
 The job of the ego to provide a man some
Ego
guidelines on how to behave accordingly while
he fulfilled his pleasure.
The component of our personality is manifested
whenever we try to satisfy our cravings without
compromising our self- image to others.
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 3 Components of Self
Sigmund Freud
3. The Super Ego
Freud believed that this aspect of man begins to manifest as
child turns to 5
Last component of personality which holds our moral judgements on concept of right
and wrong that are believed to be acquired from the family and the environment.

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