PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Personal development


  A lifelong process of enhancing and improving one's personality through deliberate study and practice
• 3 aspects or domains of human development

  • Physical development
  • Cognitive development
  • Psychosocial development
• Physical development


  • Growth of the body, brain, motor, sensory skills, and physical skills
• Cognitive development


  • Learning, speaking, understanding, reasoning, and creating
• Psychosocial development


  • Social interactions with other people, emotions, attitudes, self-identity, personality, beliefs, and values
• Age and stage of development of a person


  Influence their personal development
• Factors affecting/influencing human development

  • Hereditary - inborn traits
  • Environment - experience
  • Maturation - cognitive, psychological, social dimensions
• Influence of physical maturation over a person's development is most pronounced during childhood and adolescence stage
• Capabilities that distinguish human species from the rest of the physical world

  • Self-awareness
  • Analytical thinking
  • Self-evaluation
  • Motivation
  • Decision-making
  • Reflective thought
• Personal development


  A process in which persons reflect upon themselves, understand who they are, accept what they discover about themselves, and learn (or unlearn) new sets of values, attitudes, behavior, and thinking skills to reach their fullest potential as human beings
• Personality


  Qualities, traits, and characteristics of a person
• Personal


  Belonging to a person, or those related to or affecting a person
• Psychology


  The study of human behavior and thinking that serves as a foundation of personal development
• Johari's Window


  A model for interpersonal awareness that helps in understanding your relationship with yourself and others
• How to improve oneself using Johari's Window


  1. Revealing a lot of information to others

  2. Disclosing any information

  3. Taking feedback or criticism in a constructive way

  4. Disregarding or ignoring any feedback about oneself
• Self-concept


  One's abstract and general idea about him/herself particularly toward his/her unique personality and his/her own perception about his/her set of values, point of views and behavior
• Rene Descartes


  The Father of Modern Philosophy who proposed that a person's existence depends on his/her perception and that mind is the seat of consciousness
• Sigmund Freud


  The Father of Psychoanalysis who proposed that there are three components of personality within us: the Id, Ego and Superego
• Components of personality


  • Id
  • Ego
  • Superego
• Types of self


  • Physical self
  • Social self
  • Competent self
  • Inner self