Per Dev W1: Knowing Oneself

• Self Awareness - ability to recognize and acknowledge your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and motivations as they happen.
• • Self-awareness kicks in when you recognize the physical signs of stress in your body.
• Self-awareness: You pause to acknowledge your emotions and thoughts, realizing that the tight deadlines and workload are triggering your stress response.
• Understanding Yourself -encompasses a deeper comprehension of who you are.

  • values
  •  beliefs 
  • desires 
  • fears 
  • strengths & weaknesses 
  • how your past experiences have shaped you
• Understanding yourself: Going beyond the immediate awareness of stress, understanding yourself involves a deeper exploration of why you react this way to stress.
• Understanding yourself: You reflect on your past experiences and recognize that you've always felt pressured in situations where time constraints are tight.
• How can we understand ourselves?

  1.  Understand your life story.
  2.  Make self-reflection a habit.
  3. Seek honest feedback.
• Biological Factors - hereditary factors, physical appearance and physique, and rate of maturation.
• Social Environment - most significant aspect of the individual’s world

  • all humans live in a society, an  interacting group of people.
• Family - most significant on EARLY personality development
• The 3 determinants of personality are: biological factors, scial environment, and family
• Advantages of knowing oneself inlude the following:

  1. It will help you understand others too.

  2. It is the beginning of being a happy 

  person.

  3.You would more likely get what you want.

  4. You will have less inner conflict if your outside actions and inside feelings and values are in accordance.

  5. It can help you make better choices for everything.

  6. It will help you to be more alive and

  make you experience a richer, larger, and more exciting life.
• The three determinants of personality are:

  1. Biological Factors
  2. Social Environment
  3. Family