1. Personal
Development
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Knowing Oneself

2. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, you should be able to:
• Explain that knowing yourself can
make you accept your own self-
concept, personal effectiveness,
strengths, and limitations, and in
dealing with others better, and your
uniqueness (EsP-PD11/12KO-Ia-1.1)
• Determine how characteristics, habits,
and experiences becomes unique to
every person (EsP-PD11/12KO-Ia-
1.2); and
• Share your own unique
characteristics, habits, and
experiences. (EsP-PD11/12/KO-Ia1.2)

3. Subtasks:
• define the categories of self-concept;
• compare some skills that will greatly increase the
efficiency of a person and what makes a person
unique;
• choose always what is best for you to become
unique and a better person;
• distinguish one’s strengths and weaknesses and
use their talents for the good of the community;
and
• value oneself as a unique person

4. Self-concept
• Self-concept is the image or the idea we have
about ourselves.
• It can be thought of as our perception of our
abilities, behaviors and characteristics. It helps
us draw a mental picture of who we are—
physically, socially and emotionally.
• We form and develop our self-concept over time.
It’s shaped and influenced by our knowledge
and interactions with our immediate
environment.

5. • It is believed that the words “Know
Thyself ” which were written at the entry
of the oracle at Delphi by seven Greek
philosophers, statesmen and lawgivers
became the cornerstone of Western
philosophy.
For Socrates, the most important thing to
pursue was self -knowledge and admitting one’s
ignorance is the beginning of true knowledge.
For Plato, one of Socrates’ students, the beginning
of knowledge is self- knowledge.
Other ancient philosophers from other culture saw
the wisdom in knowing oneself.
The Persian poet Rumi ruminated “Who am I
in the midst of all this thought traffic?”
The American poet Walt Whitman celebrated his
“Self” as a “simple and separate person.”

7. Actual 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 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.
• Our self-image is a combination of different attributes.
Our personality traits (For Example, Introverted, Kind)
Our Social Roles (For Example, Friend, Student)
What We Know About Ourselves Physically (For Example, Tall,
Short Hair)

8. Ideal Self
• The ideal self, on the other hand, is how 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 best interests us
• For example, if our goal is to lead a large team
someday, we create an ideal self and make a
checklist of goals we want to work towards. We
may direct all our efforts towards achieving that
ideal version for ourselves.

9. Self esteem
• Self-esteem is the value that we
place on ourselves. Our self-
esteem often depends on how we
evaluate ourselves. In other
words, we make personal
comparisons and validate how
others respond to us.
• For example, when our managers
respond favorably to our
achievements, we are
encouraged by our performance
and our self-esteem grows.

10. • 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.

12. Activity 3. Abtash
cipher
• Abtash cipher is a mono-alphabetic
substitution cipher used for the
Hebrew alphabet. The Atbash Cipher
simply reverses the plaintext alphabet
to create the ciphertext alphabet.

13. TALENTS
GZOVMGH

14. CREATE
XIVZGV

15. unique
fmrjfv

16. EXPERIENCE
VCKVIRVMWV

17. 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
GETTING THE BEST OUT OF YOURSELF!!

19. INNATE CHARACTERISTICS
• 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.

20. SKILLS TO
ENHANCE
EFFICIENCY
• Determination. It allows you to focus
only in 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.
• 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 about
yourself and your capabilities, gain positive
attitude and believe that by performing
right actions and achieving right goals you
will certainly reach success.

21. SKILLS TO
ENHANCE
EFFICIENCY
• 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.
• 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.

22. SKILLS TO ENHANCE EFFICIENCY
• 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.
• Creativity. It allows to 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.
• Generating ideas. It helps you achieve goals using new,
original, unconventional ideas. For generating idea, 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

24. Some of Both
Purpose: Students will identify their individual strengths and weaknesses
Distribute new copies of the “Bingo” activity sheet. Ask students to reread
each square and to consider whether it lists one of their strengths or traits. If
so, have them write their name in the square. If not, ask them to put an X
across the square.
Point out that students have begun to identify personal strengths. Allow time
for students to add additional squares across the bottom of the chart,
indicating other strengths or skills they have

25. key points
• Everyone has strengths. It’s important to identify your own strengths so that
you can focus on using them.
• Everyone also has weaknesses. It’s important to identify your weaknesses so
you can create strategies for overcoming them or using them to your advantage.
• Successful, respected people can always identify both their strengths and their
weaknesses. It’s what enables them to focus on doing what they do best, and to
work with others who have strengths in areas in which they are weak.

26. Knowing oneself basically is an advantage to understand
the inner and outer you and understanding why every person
is unique ignites our tolerance and acceptance with each
other.
Uniqueness is defined in different ways and here are some
of the collective definitions:
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

27. 10 Things that Make a Person Unique
Jack Nollan (2020)
• PERSONALITY that stretches from the day a
person started to see and experience life in the
world leading to gathering information, knowledge,
acquiring skills, possessing emotional responses,
and making choices differently from other people

28. 10 Things that Make a Person Unique
Jack Nollan (2020)
• ATTITUDE that becomes the anchor of becoming
either positive or negative in life, perceiving how
people act in front of you, and an offshoot of your
emotional landscape

29. 10 Things that Make a Person Unique
Jack Nollan (2020)
• EXPERIENCES that shape you on how you act and
behave today.
• If you experienced negative, you tend to behave anxious
or defensive; however, some would deal with it as
a motivator while experiencing positive that improves
your senses in understanding the world;

30. 10 Things that Make a Person Unique
Jack Nollan (2020)
• HABITS that normally we do everyday in our lives
such as our eating habit, personal hygiene
practices, meditation exercises, and trying new
things. Cliché’ but as they always say and globally
accepted and favored, “You are what you do, not
what you say you’ll do” and that makes you
unique from others

31. 10 Things that Make a Person Unique
Jack Nollan (2020)
•CREATIVITY such as dancing, painting,
singing, producing useful things out of scrap
materials, defining beauty in a different way
and perspective makes you unique

32. 10 Things that Make a Person Unique
Jack Nollan (2020)
• PERSPECTIVE saying that no other people
understands the world as you do because they do not
live like exactly 24 hours beside you.
• Your experience is not the same with others’, your
body of knowledge is not the same as theirs. That is
why the gaps are filled from each own unique
perspective to continuously develop and improve;

33. 10 Things that Make a Person Unique
Jack Nollan (2020)
• TASTE that is a unique facet of you because
you have different likes and dislikes from other
people;
• GOALS that are set in different manners depending
on how you create steps and procedures in
achieving those;

34. 10 Things that Make a Person Unique
Jack Nollan (2020)
• HOBBIES that improves your personal growth and
mental health such as gardening, cooking, and
gaming
• PASSION that provides direction toward a goal or
experience that will allow us to leave a unique mark in
this world such as involvement in philanthropic activities
like giving and supporting people in need.