PD Week 1

• Personal development/self-development


  The process of realizing capabilities, unleashing potential, and achieving goals that are shaped over time either by studying in a formal school or through environmental factors
• Johari window


  A psychological technique that helps people better understand their relationship with themselves and others, created by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955. It encourages individuals to reveal information about themselves and receive feedback from others in order to facilitate trust, self-awareness and mutual understanding.
• Self-concept


  The structured overall impression of the self, reflecting the characteristics you believe you profess, and those qualities that come to mind when you start mulling over the person that you are and what makes you different from others. It incorporates a future component, including your hope-for selves, expected selves, and feared selves.
• 5 Points of Personal Development

  • Mental
  • Social
  • Spiritual
  • Physical
  • Emotional
• Mental growth


  • Focuses on the development of your mind, such as the way you think and learn. Improving mental aptitude can benefit anyone, especially in the workplace.
• Social growth


  • Involves improving your communication skills. Learning how to communicate effectively can be important, especially if you work independently. It can also help you develop friendships at work that promote job satisfaction.
• Spiritual growth


  • Refers to connecting with yourself on a holistic level, developing as a person and finding inner peace. Spiritual growth matters at work because it can help you manage stress and build confidence in yourself and your abilities.
• Emotional growth


  • Focuses on the development and management of your feelings and how you react to situations. Emotional growth allows you to process and evaluate your feelings at work, which can help you choose an appropriate course of action.
• Physical growth


  • Involves taking care of your body and using it in productive ways. Your physical condition affects all other areas of personal growth and development, as a healthy body facilitates effective brain functioning.
• Psychological self


  How children comprehend their enduring mental and emotional characteristics as they advance to puberty
• Valued self


  The overall evaluation of themselves that children develop as they advance to puberty
• Looking-glass self


  The concept coined by Charles Cooley (1902) that people see themselves through the eyes of others and form ideas about themselves by tuning to what they perceive as other people's judgement about themselves
• Self-schemas


  The beliefs about yourself, including your strengths and weaknesses on a particular area, that result from your past experiences and mirror how you understand a thing or event
• Aspects of self-schemas


  • Actual self (characteristics you believe you currently have)
  • Ideal self (qualities you would like to be)
  • Ought self (attributes you think you should have)
• Self-discrepancy


  The gap between the actual self and ideal self. The greater an individual's self-discrepancy is, the more discomforts he or she will suffer.
• Self-esteem


  How we value and perceive ourselves, our self-confidence. When people live up to their standards, they experience a high self worth.
• Personality


  Relatively stable characteristics and qualities that account for consistency and distinctiveness in an individual
• The Five-factor Model of Personality

  A) Openness

  B) Conscientiousness

  C) Extroversion

  D) Agreeableness

  E) Neuroticism

  
• Socrates

  "An unexamined life is not worth living."
• Aristotle

  "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
• Open Self

  information about yourself that you and others know
• Blind Self

  information you don’t know but others know about you
• Hidden Self

  information you know about yourself but others don’t
• Unknown Self

  information about yourself that neither you nor others know
• Self-Concept

  • summary of all your self-descriptions
  • more organized picture of yourself
  • structured overall impression of the self
  • the way you see yourself as a person
  • reflects the characteristics you believe you profess and those qualities that come to mind when you start mulling over the person that you are and what makes you different from others
• Possible Selves

  self-concept incorporated with a future component
• Hope-for-selves

  what you want to become
• Expected Selves

  what you expect to become
• Feared Selves

  what you do not want to be in the future