perdev les 1 KNOWING ONESELF

• As junior or senior high school students, you are considered to be in the developmental stage called "adolescence."
• You undergo different changes such as physical, social, emotional, mental, and spiritual development.
• Knowing that many of you go through the same pattern of development could help you to accept yourselves-your strengths (what you can do) and weaknesses (what you cannot do).
• As the psychologist Erik Erikson once said, "the more you know

  yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others"
• The term "adolescence" came from the Latin term


  adolescence which means 'grow.'
• Father of Adolescence

  G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924)
• who coined the term "adolescence,"

  G. Stanley Hall
• G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924), the Father of Adolescence who coined the term "adolescence,"

  defined it as "the period of storm and stress of human life."
• According to Hall, "this period is characterized by a teenager's conflict with parents, mood disruptions, and engagement in risky behavior"


  Adolescent Stage
• implies a stage of extreme transformation and growth in an

  individual which encompass various aspects of development such as physical, mental, social, and emotional

  Adolescence
• a period of numerous dramatic changes in the areas of physiological, behavioral, intellectual, social, and personality development.


  adolescence
• signals the beginning of adolescence.


  Puberty
• The whole period of adolescence may be roughly divided into

  three stages
• approximately 11-14 years of age


  early adolescence
• approximately 15-17 years of age


  middle adolescence
• approximately 18-21 years of age


  late adolescence
• Your strengths as adolescents, among others, are your

  physical health, energy, youthfulness, optimism, bravery, fearlessness, open-mindedness, good memory, and lack of cynicism.
• your weaknesses as adolescence

  lack of experience, unestablished values and identities, low self-concept and self-esteem, sensitivity, and insecurity. You are subject to hormonal mood swings, confusion, expectations, and pressures from the people around you, especially the older ones.
• Self-awareness is undoubtedly very important.


  When you have a more or less accurate knowledge or understanding of yourselves, you are able to experience yourselves truthfully as unique and separate individuals.
• self awareness


  This keeps you away from living a lie, fantasy, imagination, or pretension.
• empowers you to make personal improvements by building on your areas of strength and ascertaining aspects where you would like to make progress.


  Self-awareness
• the first step in solving a problem is

  admitting that you have a problem, which is part of self-awareness
• the starting point that leads to any improvement

  Introspection or self-awareness
• Self-improvement is hardly possible

  without self-awareness.
• about understanding your own habits, needs, desires, failings, and

  everything else that matters in your personality.

  Self-awareness or self-knowledge
• The more you know about yourself, the better you are at adapting to

  life changes that suit your needs

  related to the famous dictum of the Greek philosopher Socrates,

  "know thyself."
• Perfectly knowing yourself is difficult as repelling every single cognitive bias you have about yourself is 


  nearly impossible
• Be as impartial and unbiased as you can be in evaluating yourself. In decision-making, study and fairly criticize the decisions you make. It will help to look for some reliable friends to talk with and listen to their criticisms


  Make an effort to look at yourself objectively
• Self-awareness is basically for self-improvement, so it is sensible that you set personal objectives. Writing your own manifesto is a good way to push yourself into identifying what you want to improve about yourself.


  Set your personal goals
• Especially in solving a problem about yourself, documenting things through a journal helps as it makes you more aware of what you are doing and where problems might be coming from. If you record the little things, like food intake, playing computer games, or sleep, you might notice a larger trend that you can correct. For a better understanding about your decision making skills, write down what you think will happen with a decision you made, then wait some time (some suggest nine ten months) and review what you wrote.


  Keep a journal
• One good way to do self-review is this: instead of thinking about what you must improve about yourself, think about what your teacher, parent, or boyfriend/girlfriend thinks you should do and what your friends might say. This way, you can see yourself from someone else viewpoint and achieve a little extra insight about yourself.


  Make a self-review