Personal Development

• As you grow into teens, enormous development happen on many levels or dimensions of yourself: body changes, social network expansion, and a surge of ideas and curiosities about yourself, other people and world.
• Changes are a part of life and understanding and evaluating your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in actual life situations can help you deal with these changes.
• Physiological development refers to the physical changes in the body, including changes in height, weight, vocal tones, and the manifestation of your emerging gender and sexual characteristics.
• If one wants to be a healthy human being, one must pay attention to one’s whole person.
• We cannot recognize some and ignore the others because they are intertwined.
• Emotional development is about the feelings that you experience, with an emotion being a physiological experience that gives you information about the world, and feeling being your conscious awareness of the emotion itself.
• Social development describes the advances people make in their ability to interact and get along with others and is an essential element of an individual’s overall development.
• Cognitive development refers to a person’s intellectual abilities as shown in his/her thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and values.
• Spiritual development is about discovering oneself beyond the ego known as the soul, spirit or the “inner essence” that is often regarded or taken for granted.
• Michael Jordan was removed from his basketball varsity team.
• Bandura's triadic reciprocal causation model shows how personality are formed and their consequent behaviors.
• These people persevered despite the hardships because of their self-efficacy, which is one’s belief that one can overcome any setback and succeed.
• The human person has a capacity to influence his/her environment and vice versa.
• Our personal development is not only limited to the physical and intellectual aspects.
• According to Burrhus Frederic Skinner, the major behavioral psychologist, one is the sum total of behaviors that were rewarded by his/her environment and hence were developed through repetition and reinforcement.
• Thomas Edison failed 1,000 times before he successfully invented the light bulb.
• Our thoughts dictate how we feel; and if we are not cautious, our feelings can influence our behaviors-which may result in either self-defeating patterns of self-blame, denial, perfectionism, or behaviors that decrease our productivity.
• Human development should be viewed as a holistic development of the whole person.
• A self-efficacious person will pursue what he/she thinks is important to achieve in his/her life.
• People’s ability to control their lives is affected by their “self-efficacy” or the belief that they can succeed in what they want to do.
• The ability to reflect afterward enables people to re-examine their actions, evaluate their behavior, and modify them as necessary.
• Walt Disney was criticized by a newspaper editor for lacking imagination.
• People can set their own goals by planning, motivate and regulate their actions to achieve goals, according to Albert Bandura.
• Restraint of actions, inclinations and impulses likely to upset or harm others and violate social expectations and norms is represented by Conformity.
• An inner guide permits people to connect with GOD.
• Values are developed based on beliefs.
• Personal success through demonstrating competence is represented by Achievement.
• Safety, harmony, and stability of society, or relationships, and or self is represented by Security.
• Spiritual development is considered for a holistic balanced development along with five other areas: Universalism, Benevolence, Tradition, Conformity, and Security.
• Respect, commitment and acceptance of the customs and ideas that traditional culture or religion provide the self is represented by Tradition.
• Human agency or the capacity of human exercise control over their own lives is the essence of humanness, according to Albert Bandura.
• Preservation and enhancement of the welfare of people with whom one is in frequent personal contact is represented by Benevolence.
• Pleasure and sensuous gratification for oneself is represented by Hedonism.
• Albert Bandura defines personality as the interactions of many factors that affect a person ( thoughts, feelings, and body characteristics ), their behavior and environment.
• According to Albert Bandura, children are active information processors who quickly learn many new habits through observation.
• Independent thought and action-choosing, creating and exploring is represented by Self-direction.
• Understanding, appreciation, tolerance, and protection for the welfare of all people and for nature is represented by Universalism.
• Excitement, novelty and challenge in life is represented by Stimulation.
• Social status and prestige, control or dominance over people and resources is represented by Power.
• Shalom Schwartz (2012) identified 10 Basic Human Values: Universalism, Benevolence, Tradition, Conformity, and Security.