Personal Development (PDEV) -
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Session One: Knowing Oneself 1
Personality is too complex to be given a formula or absolute solution, hence why we use
applicable theories and our mind rather than numerical values.
“Knowing oneself is the beginning of wisdom.”
by Aristotle, who explains that if you want to build & improve your relationships with others
and be able to set career and life goals, you should be able to know yourself first.
The Johari Window Model
Made of four quadrants in a box shape, with categories being (from top to bottom, left to
right) “known by self,” “not known by self”, “known by others”, and “not known by others”.
- Known Self: things we and other people know about ourselves.
- Blind Self: things we don’t know but other people do.
- Hidden Self: things we know, but no one else does.
- Unknown Self: things neither we nor others know about ourselves.
Dimensions of the Self
The word self is popularly & generally defined as what an individual sees, perceives, and defines
oneself apart from the others. There are three known dimensions of the self, which are
very important to know if you want to be able to know yourself.
1. Physical Dimensions
- Revolves around the physical body of a human, more specifically the
processes, functions, mechanisms, and chemistry. It is everything physical like
muscles and tissues.
- It gives us the ability to move our muscles, perceive our surroundings,
and to think of ideas and opinions that bring wonder to our lives and others.
2. Psychological Dimensions
- It contains the concepts of stress, cognition, behavior, attitude, emotion,
and personality.
3. Spiritual Dimensions
- Allows us to view ourselves as spiritual beings, seeing on a spiritual level.
, - It holds relevance to a perceived existence of God, a greater good, or a Superior
Being.
Attitudes & its Components: Affect, Cognition, Behavior
Behavior, a key factor in personality development, manifesting itself as behavior /
representations of personality. It may be categorized in Implicit and Explicit.
- Implicit: thoughts or feelings that conscious awareness doesn’t cover.
- Explicit: thoughts or feelings that are perceived consciously and expressed
accordingly.
Three Components for Attitude to Manifest
- Affect, the emotions directed at the self, environment, and others.
- Cognition, the way we think.
- Behavior, the manifestation of attitude, done in action form.
How exactly are one’s attitudes formed?
Experience is the best teacher as a human being learns to interact with their environment
and act accordingly. Attitudes can form consequently through either personal consequences
or observed experiences. An example of this would be rejection.
1. Social Factors, or the factors of how attitudes are formed through the roles of a person
in a social environment, with the social norms that dictate your actions. It is
nurtured by parents, peers, and elders.
2. Learning as a Factor, where simply put, observing and gauging your
understanding from experiences. Whatever you see or observe changes the way you
act towards things.
- Direct Contact: first hand experience, whether it be with a person, object,
idea, situation, that is the attitude’s focus.
- Direct Instruction: instructions told by parents or other individuals.
- Interaction with Others: forms when a person is around other people with the
same attitude, in term influencing them.
- Vicarious Conditioning (Observational Learning): observations of
other people’s actions and reactions to various objects, people, or
situations.
3. Operant Conditioning, where our attitudes can also be affected by how we
develop these attitudes in the first place. Whatever an experience, person, or
object means to you in that moment affects your attitude towards it.
4. Modelling, where when someone particularly close with us, or someone we adore and
idolize does something and we find ourselves following too.
Self-Esteem and Self-Concept
Self Concept, or our cognition to ourselves, what we think and know about our identity,
personality, and individuality. It requires a lot of reflection to understand our self concept.
Complete Notes
Legend
[.....] - important details
[.....] - titles or categories
Session One: Knowing Oneself 1
Personality is too complex to be given a formula or absolute solution, hence why we use
applicable theories and our mind rather than numerical values.
“Knowing oneself is the beginning of wisdom.”
by Aristotle, who explains that if you want to build & improve your relationships with others
and be able to set career and life goals, you should be able to know yourself first.
The Johari Window Model
Made of four quadrants in a box shape, with categories being (from top to bottom, left to
right) “known by self,” “not known by self”, “known by others”, and “not known by others”.
- Known Self: things we and other people know about ourselves.
- Blind Self: things we don’t know but other people do.
- Hidden Self: things we know, but no one else does.
- Unknown Self: things neither we nor others know about ourselves.
Dimensions of the Self
The word self is popularly & generally defined as what an individual sees, perceives, and defines
oneself apart from the others. There are three known dimensions of the self, which are
very important to know if you want to be able to know yourself.
1. Physical Dimensions
- Revolves around the physical body of a human, more specifically the
processes, functions, mechanisms, and chemistry. It is everything physical like
muscles and tissues.
- It gives us the ability to move our muscles, perceive our surroundings,
and to think of ideas and opinions that bring wonder to our lives and others.
2. Psychological Dimensions
- It contains the concepts of stress, cognition, behavior, attitude, emotion,
and personality.
3. Spiritual Dimensions
- Allows us to view ourselves as spiritual beings, seeing on a spiritual level.
, - It holds relevance to a perceived existence of God, a greater good, or a Superior
Being.
Attitudes & its Components: Affect, Cognition, Behavior
Behavior, a key factor in personality development, manifesting itself as behavior /
representations of personality. It may be categorized in Implicit and Explicit.
- Implicit: thoughts or feelings that conscious awareness doesn’t cover.
- Explicit: thoughts or feelings that are perceived consciously and expressed
accordingly.
Three Components for Attitude to Manifest
- Affect, the emotions directed at the self, environment, and others.
- Cognition, the way we think.
- Behavior, the manifestation of attitude, done in action form.
How exactly are one’s attitudes formed?
Experience is the best teacher as a human being learns to interact with their environment
and act accordingly. Attitudes can form consequently through either personal consequences
or observed experiences. An example of this would be rejection.
1. Social Factors, or the factors of how attitudes are formed through the roles of a person
in a social environment, with the social norms that dictate your actions. It is
nurtured by parents, peers, and elders.
2. Learning as a Factor, where simply put, observing and gauging your
understanding from experiences. Whatever you see or observe changes the way you
act towards things.
- Direct Contact: first hand experience, whether it be with a person, object,
idea, situation, that is the attitude’s focus.
- Direct Instruction: instructions told by parents or other individuals.
- Interaction with Others: forms when a person is around other people with the
same attitude, in term influencing them.
- Vicarious Conditioning (Observational Learning): observations of
other people’s actions and reactions to various objects, people, or
situations.
3. Operant Conditioning, where our attitudes can also be affected by how we
develop these attitudes in the first place. Whatever an experience, person, or
object means to you in that moment affects your attitude towards it.
4. Modelling, where when someone particularly close with us, or someone we adore and
idolize does something and we find ourselves following too.
Self-Esteem and Self-Concept
Self Concept, or our cognition to ourselves, what we think and know about our identity,
personality, and individuality. It requires a lot of reflection to understand our self concept.
