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Perdev Week 1

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Learning Activity Sheet


PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Quarter 1: Week 1
Knowing and Understanding
Oneself

Department of Education
Region VIII – Eastern Visayas
Division of Northern Samar
Allen 1 District
ALLEN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Allen, Northern Samar
School ID: 303531

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET


Knowing and Understanding Oneself

I. Background Information for Learners

A - SELF - CONCEPT

An ideal self is the self that you aspire to be. It is the one that you
hope will possess characteristics similar to that of a mentor or some
other worldly figure. Your actual self, however, is the one that you
actually see. It is the self that has characteristics that you were nurtured
or, in some cases, born to have.

The actual self and the ideal self are two broad categories of self-
concept. Self-concept refers to your awareness of yourself. It is the
construct that negotiates these two selves. In other words, it connotes
first the identification of the ideal self as separate from others, and
second, it encompasses all the behaviors evaluated in the actual self that
you engage in to reach the ideal self.

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 what 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 have taught us, what we admire in others, what our
society promotes, and what we think is in our best interest.

There is negotiation that exists between the two selves which is


complex 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. Alignment is important. If
the way that I am (the actual self) is aligned with the way that I want to
be (the ideal self), then I will feel a sense of mental well-being or peace of
mind. If the way that I am is not aligned with how I want to be, the
incongruence, or lack of alignment, will result in mental distress or
anxiety. The greater the level of incongruence between the ideal self and
real self, the greater the level of resulting distress. Personal
development modules ultimate aim is greater self-knowledge that will
lead to higher alignment between these two personality domains.
B – PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Personal effectiveness means making use of all the personal


resources – talents, skills, energy and time, to enable you to achieve life
goals.

Your knowledge of yourself and how you manage yourself impacts


directly on your personal effectiveness. Being self-aware, making 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 are needed to be identified and then developed to be used in a
particular subject area (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. If the same ability is used many times in the
same situation, then it becomes a habit that runs automatically,
subconsciously. Here are some 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 exercise.

2. Self-confidence. It appears in the process of personal


development, as a result of getting aware of yourself, your
actions and their consequences. Self-confidence is manifested in
speech, appearance, dressing, gait, and physical condition. To
develop it. You need to learn yourself 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,
etc. 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
experience.
6. Creativity. It allows you o find extraordinary ways to carry out a
specific action that no one has tried to use. It can lead to
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. For generating ideas, you
can use a method of mental maps, which allows you to
materialize, visualize and scrutinize all your ideas, which in turn
contributes to the emergence of new ideas. These are just some,
but the most important personal effectiveness skills which make
the achievement of any goal easier and less costly.

C. BUILD ON YOUR STRENGTHS AND WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESSES

Most failures emanate from weaknesses that are not recognized or


probably recognized but not given appropriate attention or remedy. This
could be a weakness in communications, personality or ability. Instead of
giving up or indulging in self-pity, take action. Go for speech lessons,
get skills upgrading, attend personality development sessions or
whatever appropriate remedies to your perceived weakness.

Instead of simply focusing on your weakness, recognize your own


talents and abilities, build on them, utilize them to your greatest
advantage. This is where you can build your name and popularity.
Handicapped people like Jose Feliciano and other blind singers did not
brood over their physical handicap. They recognize that they have a
golden voice so they search ways to enrich that talent and now they have
won international fame in the field of music.

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